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Originally Posted by 69gtocv

Okay, so this is starting to make a little more sense. D37 only w/334 means the hardtop with the GTO option. We know the GTO option came standard with the bench seat. So if you wanted the GTO option AND bucket seats, you had to order the 654 option as well. If you had a LeMans hardtop and wanted bucket seats, you had to order the 734 Sports option. Same price too. Though with the Sport, they threw in the fender emblems on the chrome nose cars. T41 cars got no emblems at all.

They did make a lesser amount of D27 post GTO's and a ton of D27 LeMans, but were you able to get buckets in those? If so, wonder what option you chose for those?

Still haven't figured out where the 734 option was in the order or accessorizer forms.

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.