Nice Oshawa built 72 Lemans. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Nice Oshawa built 72 Lemans. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

GLHS60 · Poncho Master!

Nice car and the tach is always a very nice feature, could it be original??

Thanks
Randy

MC · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Love it, but would have to get rid of the under-dash gauges. I see them in lots of cars but have no idea how anybody reads gauges that are around their shins.

Looks like a nice original car, and I agree with Todd that it's refreshing to see a Lemans, and not a GTO clone. Alas, at $32500, it would not have a hope in heck of happening for me. Nice to see, regardless.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

GLHS60 wrote:
Nice car and the tach is always a very nice feature, could it be original??

Thanks
Randy

I guess likely there's no reason it couldn't have been built with it but it sure would be unusual on a car like this?

DonSSDD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

MC, idiot lights dont tell you anything,I have mechanical temperature and oil pressure in one gauge hanging off the dash, it is not as hard to see/use as say the newer cars with the screens that have navigation, plus everything else on them with touch screen buttons/ links? They do look ugly but my big chrome dash also looks much nicer than any of the later plastic dashes. In my 62 Chev, I had the gauge in the clock space, I could cut a hole in my dash by the clock but havent done that yet.

That tach sure looks original, with such an original car, maybe it is. Needs 3 pedals though.

CdnGMfan · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

We dropped a factory tach into my ex-neighbour's '72 Le Mans GT (a stripped-down go-fast car). It was drop-in easy, as the 1968+ dash circuit boards can accommodate them. He bought the tach used but perfect from Early Birds.

It is funny that the Le Mans sold here in '72 could have either a Chevrolet or Pontiac 350. If it was a GT (built in Pontiac MI) it got a Pontiac engine, but if a Le Mans with a 350 and the equipment specified could be built in Oshawa, it would get the Chevy engine. Likely because of the kinship with the Chevelle on line 2 Oshawa, they also offered on Chevelles the th350 trans behind the 250 six (n/a on U.S. Chevelles 71-72).

Oshawa installed 12-bolt type C rears on Le Mans with 400 or 455 power, whereas in the U.S. it was 455 only.

Minus the vinyl roof cover & wire wheelcovers, that Le Mans looks just like the car the librarian at my senior public school drove in the mid-1970s.