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Originally Posted by 'ol Pinion head
Wouldn't exactly say Pontiac made a ton of '72 D27 LeMans, that said, ALL '72 2 door Post LeMans (D27's) came with a bench seat & the standard door panels. Bucket seats were not avail in the D27 body style. The rather spartan appearing '72 standard LeMans door panels are near identical to '71 T-37 doorpanels. The only difference is the '72 versions had a diecast LeMans or GTO emblem installed up high centered on each door panel.
When a '72 LeMans Hardtop or Coupe was ordered with the GTO option, the standard trim level door panels had a diecast GTO emblem. When a '72 LeMans Hardtop was ordered with the GTO option and the Sport interior, the upper scale door panels pullstraps, the '71-72 style GTO door panel emblems were not used.
Over the years there have been owners that installed the swirled style GTO emblems on their '72 "Sport" style door panels. Many years ago, had a local that swiped one of the very nice condition original GTO door panel emblems from an original door panel from my '71 Judge project. That door panel was setting on a work table in my garage. That emblem ended up (with another one that he had come up years before) on the "Sport" door panels in his beater '72 T41 LeMans. Needless to say, I was not very happy about the stolen emblem, & it took over a year working big swappers to find a nice used pair of '71 GTO doorpanels to remove the pristine original swirled style GTO emblems. Little incidents like that are the big reason I don't have an open door policy here for locals throwing together who knows what, to come over & look at parts.
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Thanks for the info Roger. You're right, there were only 6855 D27 Post LeMans with only 134 of those having the GTO option. Not a ton for sure, my bad.
Having never had a D27 post car, so confirm you're saying a D27 post and a D37 hardtop, when not ordered with buckets, used the same door panel? Only the emblem changed.
Regarding my original question in the first post... do you have any insight on how you ordered the 734 LeMans sport option when it wasn't on the order form or accessorizer catalog?
Jeff