Hello, figured it was about time i introduced myself. Im Ethan from Canada, and i have a 1971 pontiac LeMans Sport 400. I found the car back in 2009. I wanted to buy it and one day I came home and my old man had gone and bought it for himself. The way I always saw It was he was saving it until i was mature enough. He had purchased the almost all original car off the original owner. Included was original bill of sale, and every year of registration since purchase. 

Well this summer my old man finally sold it to me. And now my projecta have begun, car drives great but it needs an engine rebuild. So that's my first major project the original 400 only has 124,000miles on it but ill be pulling it this winter for a rebuild. And im sure i will have lots of questions at that point. Here is a photos of the car now. 

 

Cool fact i recently recover the build sheet from under the rear seat, the car was ordered in 2 tone paint, both colours being 26 (lucerne blue) and with option D99 which is 2 tone paint trim. I always thought the car was originally a  vinyl top. 

Officially  

Congrats on the purchase! Looks like your dad and you both have good taste 👍

Welcome to the site.

Welcome to FP and the madness we call Pontiac!

What part of Canada (aka Canuckistan) are you from?

The flat part in the middle. Near Winterpeg

58 minutes ago, CLEARCROW said:

The flat part in the middle. Near Winterpeg

welcome 

ice road truckers territory ! 

 

Edited September 8, 20214 yr by 64 kiwi boni

4 hours ago, Frosty said:

Welcome to FP and the madness we call Pontiac!

What part of Canada (aka Canuckistan) are you from?

Near Winterpeg 

10 hours ago, CLEARCROW said:

Near Winterpeg 

Ah Winterpeg - north of the border from Minnesnowta! I've been to the mint before. Cool place!

Edited September 8, 20214 yr by Frosty

You may have a unicorn there, with the two-tone paint trim option and monotone paint.

7 hours ago, Frosty said:

Ah Winterpeg - north of the border from Minnesnowta! I've been to the mint before. Cool place!

Closer to north dakota as im 8km north of the American boreder, right next to Neche North Dakota

5 hours ago, stratman said:

You may have a unicorn there, with the two-tone paint trim option and monotone paint.

Im hoping once i go through PHS i will find out how rare she is. I wanted to delete the trim and side body moulding but now i may need to keep that trim for The rarity 

You may have something special.  Looks like it's in great shape.

31 minutes ago, JUSTA6 said:

You may have something special.  Looks like it's in great shape.

Yea i got super lucky. The original owner babied the car. It was never winter driven. Since purchase in 71 always stored in garage. Only thing the original owner did to the car was had it repainted in the early 90s. It was purchased by dad in 2009 with 109,xxx miles and today ill hit 125,000 after dinner 

So out for an evening cruise and my phone died so i had to go buy a charger just for these photos

Turned it over @ 124mph?   

1 minute ago, JUSTA6 said:

Turned it over @ 124mph?   

Haha i wish. The speedo is converted to km\h 

But the odometer is still in miles

4 hours ago, CLEARCROW said:

Haha i wish. The speedo is converted to km\h 

But the odometer is still in miles

how does that work ?isnt a speedo justA like a clock?.. lots of cogs etc

4 minutes ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

how does that work ?isnt a speedo justA like a clock?.. lots of cogs etc

No sped is the same regardless its just how it's displayed. You change the face plate to read kms. 

ok 

👍

8 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

how does that work ?isnt a speedo justA like a clock?.. lots of cogs etc

I can answer that since we, at AC, made these gauges. Yes, it is like a clock and it is cog driven. It is was designed originally to turn with each passing mile. In the 60s, Canada had not yet formally adopted the metric system. so all North American speedos were in MPH. However, in January of 1970, the federal government established the mandate that eventually led to Canada to becoming fully being metric by 1975.

So by 1971 AC produced MPH and KPH lettering on the speedometer/odometer gauges for all GM vehicles, depending on if it was sold in the US or Canada. If it was going to sold in the US, the larger numbers would be in MPH and KPH lettering was made smaller. If sold primarily for Canada or export (e.g. a metric system country), then the KPH lettering was larger and MPH lettering was smaller. The gauges themselves were still calibrated at miles per hour. Therefore the early 70s odometers turned over with miles, not kilometers, in those early years. Later on AC would have to calibrate the gauges depending on the MPH or KPH primary designation so that the odometers would read properly based on either the English or metric system.

Edited September 9, 20214 yr by Frosty