wasnt the best financial trade ive made but heres my 67 lemans
 

i bought a 08 supercharged z06 i was working on, it still needed a couple thousand put in it but it did run and drive. then this car came along. i had offers on the roller for enough to buy a nice pontiac. for some reason this one kept on eating at me. surprisling ive not missed that z06 a minute and come home and open the shop up to check this thing out daily. the green interior is a bit much but oh well

A Pontiac is better than ANY Cheby!

I like it!
Funny how the colors I used to dread as a teen seem nostalgic to me now, like green and even burnt orange metallic.

it is weird how the green has grown on me over the years, starting with obs chevy truck i had years back. i actually like this color on this car...on the outside...the inside makes think about crawling around my grandmas green shag carpet as a little tyke haha

Isn't that actually a dark turquoise or teal?

I recall a couple LeMans and Tempest cars around the neighborhood of my youth being this color combo. While I generally despise most automotive greens, these turquoise/teal colors always appealed to me.

Car looks good. Enjoy!

Talk about color, not Pontiac related, way back I bought a daily driver for my long commute. It was an original '67 Dodge Dart from an elderly couple, for $200, in 1991. It had 65K original miles.
It was olive green, with olive green interior, and an olive green vinyl top. Hideous. I couldn't pass up the price. Drove it to 100K miles. sold it to a dad and youngster for 1K. Had several buyers competing.

George

Current GTO was originally gulf turquoise, matching interior. Previous owner had the exterior painted a '67 blue. pulled the interior and replaced it with my old Lemans parchment, and sold off the buckets, still have the rear seats and door panels if anyone wants them. I haven't decided on the final exterior color, but interior will be parchment.

George

Congrats! That's a beautiful car and I bet you are glad you listened to it whispering.

We need pics of the green interior.

Somebody wearing my clothes likes green interiors.

And the engine you listed is a gift. Like a good campground, those never show up within a 4-hr drive from me... is tempting.

Very nice!

That car will turn more heads for sure

i tbink its called mariner turqoise, i think the interior is gulf turqoise.

i dont fully understand why that mirror is there lol. its a remote mirror, and completely sucks to see out of. i plan to swap it with the right mirror and a pass side mirror

ill post a picture of the inside, i beleive it to all be original to the car. the seat covers are alot thinker/tougher feeling then the repop stuff

i was buying all of them up a couple years, in fact i sold the exact bare block to the machine shop few years ago..its almost like it came back...with all its parts found lol. i considered bolting a 66 tri power to this one and running it awhile. it has all the ac stuff on firewall and compressor is in the trunk with a set of rally 2 wheels

Cool car.

What color was the Z? I don't think I could ever give up a C6Z in a trade

Looks nice! What are your plans for it?

the z was velocity yellow, it was a beast, cam, t trim sc, arh headers n x pipe, borla atak. even with the charge tube disconnected it did 50mph burnouts with ease.

alot of stuff is discontinued on those cars. electrical parts etc. melling quit making the ls7 dry sump oil pumps so used ones average 3 to 500 bucks, the aftermarket is 1500-2k . this car had none of those issues and i wanted rid of it while it didnt.

my c5 has some tough to find parts as well but atleast the ls6 can be fixed or rebuilt pretty easy. the la7 though tough to beat, it aint cheap to repair.

i wanna keep it a cool ol street car. it has a rebuilt th400 in it so i wanna use that for awhile. i do plan to put in a 9" 3.5 geared posi in it and at some point put a 4l80 in. it will stay a lemans, but it may get the gto hood and gto grill minus the emblem

interior
 

carpets dirty but no rips anywhere in seats

nice
loose the steering wheel and its all good

Excellent! That's a beautiful color interior without looking cheap. I hope it grows on you.

Nice car!

The C5-C7 Vettes are brutes when you start modifying them. I recently sold my C7 and I miss it. I've been eyeing C6Zs lately.

The new Poncho is sweet tho! Sometimes a change is needed, and every now and then we're gifted an easy sale/trade that makes sense.

if a person was gonna ls swap a pontiac...and i just couldnt do it...i tried...traded my 6.0 for a bare 428 lol...but the ls427 is just hard to match

Really like the stacked head lights and smooth rear quarters. I think I'm falling in love.

I dig the color combo. But I'm partial -- looks the same as mine.
67 Mariner Turqoise over Turquoise interior.
A head turner, IMO.

its growing on my, after driving it around good part of the day it seemed i didnt care about the color at all.

i do like the exterior color for sure

That's definitely true for me about colors. Things I would never have considered at the time now look really cool to me. A lot depends on certain car and color combos too.

As far as the finances are concerned, sometimes it's not about that. It's about what you want.

Separately, about the color, I like it.

i thought this had an old holley looking at the dual feed line...come to find out it has a new 600 qft vac secondary carb. once i started looking, i seen the cable was not in the right spot only giving less than half throttle. also modulator valve was connected to metered vacuum, advance was connected to full vacuum. runs considerably better now. its peppy taking off, but itll cruise 80-90 barely in the gas...no tach.

I don't really think it was a bad trade. I'm at the point where I'm sick of seeing an LS or LT platform engine in everything, I was in it 25 years ago during the"tuner wars" stuff, now I look forward to not seeing an LS in anything. If you ever need any C5/C6 stuff, I still have a lot of parts. I have an LS7 block with a cracked sleeve (LS7 is the only LS block with replaceable sleeves) and a 5.7 LS1 that I need to reassemble. If I feel the need to do anything new-ish I'll swap a GN engine into something. I still have a pair of 89 TTA heads laying around....

the c6z kinda fell in lap, i really didnt want it when i was fixing it for the seller. the valve guide problem sucks with ls7s along with depending on your luck, if the sleeve cracks, alot of times the block does too. that and alot of the discontinued parts. i will say it was alot more car than my c5, but i only bought the c5 as a childhood goal. im definitley glad i got the pontiac...but...when i was happy about the 2nd gear scratch it did...i started thinking about the vettes murdering the tires at 40 or 50 mph rolls. they do have a gear advantage though...i dont doubt this 400 will knock some tires off with good gears

You don't have to explain anything about the C5, my 01 was the first new car I bought. I was in my 20s and I have no regrets. Got it into the mid 11s with bolt ons, it was a lot of fun. I helped out at a friend's LS tuner shop (Cartek Performance Engineering), so I got to work on a lot of fun stuff. Probably why I'm sick of LS stuff now. I think a mild 400 with 3.90 + gears, a T56 behind it or a 6spd auto would run right with a lot of newer cars.