Notice, the 75 NACA hoods did not come with the vent grills at the upper portion of the hood, only the 73-74, which makes them rarer.

pontorquer wrote:

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Notice, the 75 NACA hoods did not come with the vent grills at the upper portion of the hood, only the 73-74, which makes them rarer.

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That is true but for some reason 75's seem to be more plentiful here in Canada than 73 or 74's. I have a bad feeling this might be a Cup Car. I am going to have to make some inquiries.

pontorquer wrote:

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What about 73-74-75 Grandam's ?

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I once read that no 73 Grand Am's left the factory with the scooped hood, don't know if that is true or not. I know one 73 Grand Am in Brampton and the owner has a service replacement scooped hood on the car he bought in 1980 to replace the smooth hood after he purchased the car at Dean Myers Chev Olds in Toronto. All service replacement hoods have no cowl vents even when stamped 1973. By late 74 they were phasing out the cowl vents so I believe it is possible to have a 74 with no cowl vents as well.

In my own case the hood is stamped with a production date of 1973, it has no cowl vents and we don't know what type of model it came from.

I have some update information on this posting.

I am sorry to be the one to break the sad news BUT this was a Canada Cup Car, just as I suspected. I am not an expert on these cars but we know they were a rare production. I have seen figures as high as 1,700 to one per GM Canada Zone across the country, something like 44. Hope someone can clarify for us.

Only a few parts left but I have no price decision information to share yet. Seems like a nice person though.

-- Edited by 73SC at 12:27, 2008-09-07

Do you think it is worth getting the hood Todd ?

The last time I bought one I had to strap it to the roof rack on the Suburban and it still over hung each side. These were mid sized cars back then. Imagine that, the hood is wider than a late model Suburban. Not too many people would believe that.

buy it!   its better than a G.I.C.

73sc did he give any ballpark price on the hood,could use one if the price is right,Thanks Tom

200.00-300.00 today will be a steal 5 years from now   Those car are getting famous!!   the next B-J HOTTIES

Atta boy!   10-4

Welcome here.

There happens to be some 73-77 fans here that will certainly be able to help you out. They must all be gone to car shows this morning, I see it's kind of quiet around here.....

I'm back......so the 73-75 scoopped hood eh? First thing is GM Canada marketed this as Dual Hood Scoop, NASA type. If you call it a NASA hood though you will get alot of people telling you it is a NACA hood, especially Americans. Some will be nasty about it too. I call it what GM Canada calls it, NASA.

The hood was standard on 1973 GTO and optional on all other Pontiac A-Bodies, LeMans, LeMans Sport, Grand Am and Safari, from 73 to 75 except in 1975 it was included as part of the GT package on the LeMans.

Here is an example of rare not really transmitting to valuable. I would say that 1975 versions of the hood are most plentiful here in Canada because of the special model the Canada Cup Edition GT.

The Cup car was released as a 1975 GT package on the LeMans Sport Coupe to recognize the Canada Cup Hockey Tournamnet. By this time sport coupes could be had with either louvers or formal opera style roof line and I have seen the car in both configurations. The cars were red and white, interior was white with black accents, the exterior usually had a white vinyl roof and a Maple leaf logo with the GT logo on the fender and deck lid. They had NASA hoods. A V8 was required and most were the 350 small block Chevrolet with a 2bbl. The Pontiac 400 4bbl was also available but I only know of two existing today and only one is on the road. For the Quebec market the car was released in Blue and White and a fleur de lise replaced the Maple Leaf (Super Super Rare). I don't have exact production numbers on this car but I have read a high of around 1,700 to a low of 42 or so to correspond with the Number of GM Zone sales offices across Canada.

Value of the hood ? One just failed to sell on eBay, it got three bids, the top being $10 so the reserve was not met. It was a really good looking hood too. I would say that a hood that needs no body work whatsoever just primed and painted to match could get $400 to a motivated buyer. Add $100 if the scoop inserts and backing plates are there.  From there it goes down. Most are bent across the scoops because of the weakened structure there. That is a hard repair. The one in this auction is full of rust holes and I'd say $100 is tops. It needs $400 body work easily then painted to match. The end price to get it on the car would be near $1,000.

Remember that these cars are not that desireable for collectors so you may have a rare piece but it is for a car very few people consider as a collectable.

I would consider it though because my car has one so it would be prudent to obtain a spare. But think about how many of these cars you see on the road and you get an idea of your market.

To your car, seeing that it is a 75 Sport Coupe and if bult in Oshawa it has a good chance of being a Cup Car.

Hey rematar,

I am a bit confused, sounds to me like you had 2 Canada Cup cars and the one you drove could have been a 400. Remember 75 was first year for catalytic converters so a 400 in 75 was a pretty low HP motor choked off by single exhaust and the converter, I think they had 180 SAE Net HP. A 350 4bbl sbc would have had about 160 or 165 then. Also remember that the fuel crisis was in full swing and these cars were leaving the factory with 2.73 rear end highway gears. GT packages were really a graphics and appearance deal by 1975.

I have had 3 LeMans as well 2 73 sport coupes and a 76 Grand LeMans.