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72 455 HO Luxury Lemans?
DID it happen? Im on the trail of one and the guy says its an X-code car....he volunteered the info...never heard of one...
he also has a 3 speed stick 72 Lux Lemmy..on the floor with a console....strange cars.... both dirt cheap....
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Mark.. The Goat whisperer "I spent a lot of my money on booze, crazy women, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." |
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I can take the HO and you can have the 3 on the floor, no problem
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Not according to my numbers...I'll call you
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Some guys have all the luck.
Go get them!
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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they are both Luxo cars....they both have skirts, i assume that only Luxos have skirts? He went on and on about how nice the skirts are and how hard they are to find...Im embarassed I know nothing about them...but they never interested me, unless they had rubber noses, i always just walked passed them....and to be honest the skirts just make me wanna puke..........but I am going to pursue them...I bought a 72 Lemans yesterday, I asked the old guy if he knew of any other Pontiacs and he gave me 5 leads...and the two LUXOs are just part....pays to be nosey..fur sure!..
one of the other is a 71 Judge rusty but complete in OKC....supposed to be an undiscovered car...how about it musclecollector...know of a pale green 3 speed Judge in your back yard?..not even sure if it real...ive ran down many cars and they where nothing they where supposed to be, but this guy was convincing....also 2 66 Tripower cars at the lake of the ozarks... SO...i was on up til 2 dealing the Lemmy i bought...so I gots a pocket full of phone numbers to call....yeah...the guy gave me numbers...not just directions...or names...lol
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Mark.. The Goat whisperer "I spent a lot of my money on booze, crazy women, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." Last edited by marxjunk; 11-06-2011 at 11:45 AM. |
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.........Could you just imagine a CC 455 HO 4 speed with SKIRTS....whatta sleeper......
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Mark.. The Goat whisperer "I spent a lot of my money on booze, crazy women, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." |
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Bogus car, no factory 455 HO Lux LeMans. will send you an email.
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Got a nice 72 black dash in any of them?
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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no..sorry
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Mark.. The Goat whisperer "I spent a lot of my money on booze, crazy women, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." |
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Wondered if you got it...
Did you ever know of the canyon copper/sandlewood one in Norman?
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I don't know if it was original or not, but I saw a 4-dr Lemans about 25 yrs ago that had a 455HO in it. I don't remember if it was a Luxury Lemans or a 4-dr sport, but I know what I saw.
The owner said he wanted a GTO, but his wife said he had to buy something with room for the family, so he special ordered a 4-dr with a 455HO. He struck up a conversation with me because I was driving one of my early Trans Ams at the time. It had the round port heads and aluminum intake, along with all of the amenities it would need for a family, such as a/c. This was mid-80s, and I know there were some wierd Lemans out there. I knew of a endura equipped wagon, and I parted a 72 Luxury Lemans in Sundance Orange with a white vinyl top, 400-4V, and loaded with rare options, including electric seat back locks. It was a 4-dr with buckets, tach, gauges, and 3.23 posi. It even had fender skirts. I also saw a 72 Luxury Lemans 2-dr with a 455 auto with buckets, full instrumentation, posi, and fender skirts. Mike |
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wasnt that the one that steve ended up with???
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455HO engines were ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY not installed in any PRODUCTION, for sale to the public, Lux LeMans, 4-door LeMans nor wagons. PERIOD, END OF CONVERSATION.
D-port 455s - yes. HOs - nope. Prove me wrong - show me the PHS invoice or build sheet, and the VIN . . .
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Regards, "455HO" Lloyd 2008 GMC Sierra Denali 2WD Crew, L92 6L80E, Silver w/ Ebony guts, 14.26 @ 98 |
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Regards, "455HO" Lloyd 2008 GMC Sierra Denali 2WD Crew, L92 6L80E, Silver w/ Ebony guts, 14.26 @ 98 |
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Lloyd,
Sorry about the mistake. It was a 2-dr. I actually parted two orange 72 Luxury Lemans a number of years ago. They were similarly equipped. The seat back locks came out of the 72 2-dr with no title. I also discussed that car here: http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...ans+seat+locks The orange 4-dr was not as heavily optioned as the 2-dr. It was 400-4V, 3.23 posi, and had pw, pdl, tilt, a/c, cruise, am/fm, buckets, power seats. It's been 20 yrs ago, but I don't think it had tach or gauges or sport steering wheel. I've parted out way too many cars over the years. I've always wondered what happened to the 4-dr with the HO motor. There was a very active Pontiac dealership in that area, which closed in the mid-70s. I bought a 70 T/A that had a Ram IV with a SR block a number of years ago. The motor was all correct, down to the carb number, and it had the 3.73 gears. I was able to buy it, and was thoroughly disappointed to find it was a Ram III. I ultimately traced the history back far enough to find the motor came out of another car that was totalled. It's possible the owner of the 4-dr started with a 455 and swapped out the heads and intake, since that stuff was cheap back then. I think I saw this car around 1984. Mike |
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Lloyd people argue the 70 455 is a HO.....Because of the PHS
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No problemo, Mike.
No 1970 LeMans's were produced with the 455 "HO" engine anyway. GTOs (and GPs) only.
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Regards, "455HO" Lloyd 2008 GMC Sierra Denali 2WD Crew, L92 6L80E, Silver w/ Ebony guts, 14.26 @ 98 |
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Would have been neat to see that loaded up L78 SO 4-door, though I can't STAND those fender skirts.
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Regards, "455HO" Lloyd 2008 GMC Sierra Denali 2WD Crew, L92 6L80E, Silver w/ Ebony guts, 14.26 @ 98 |
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No problem, Lloyd. I had a late night last night, so I decided to take a vacation day today.
I like orange cars, and I owned a couple of 71-72 GTOs and a 71 Formula in Sundance Orange. When I found the first orange heavily optioned 2-dr, I assumed it had to be a special order. Who in their right mind would order an orange car with a white vinyl top and fender skirts. Then a few years later, I was following up a lead on a car in an older mill-town in NC, and I saw the 4-dr orange with fender skirts on it. The car was really solid, but had a very bad lifter tick to it. It had a lot of good parts so I bought it and dismantled it. If I still had that car today, I would probably have made a driver out of it. Other than the lifter tick, the only thing really wrong with it was dull paint, cracked dash, and worn out tires. |
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