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A friend of mine wants one of our old Lemons for trade for this thing. If residual value is $1.00 on the retired lemon, that gives me $499.00 to get this thing together. A Lemons LeMans badged up like a GTO. It'll more than likely have to get a 340 MOPAR engine. It's what I have.
Start jumping out the windows Pontiac purists, it's going to happen.
Why not an Iron Duke?
I'll give you $2 for it. Katie really wants a GTO of this vintage. This is about the closest thing to that I could ever afford.
You could make this into a pretty nice GTO for, oh, about 120% of the cost of buying a pretty nice GTO. I think it needs to be a Lemons car, so that the howls of "$500 CAR MY ASS!" from all-knowing Internet Car Guys can get that much louder.
Pontiac had some pretty awesome Inline-6s that are not so well known. I would drop one of those in. Or, prove you're a real bad-ass and drop in the same V-6 the Delorean used. A Pontiac Purist would have to worship the ground you walked on while spitting on it.
I wouldn't bother badging it up the be a GTO regardless of the intended purpose.
However, making it a cocaine runner or other John Delorean/DMC tribute would be the best thing ever.
Dress it up like the "real" Pontiac LeMans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_LeMans
Maybe you could make it into a Challenger?
No one would know. 
GTO vs Cessna vs Rolls Royce....
the "$500 CAR MY ASS!!1!" crowd is going to have to invest in duct tape for their heads for the 2013 season.
GTO vs Cessna vs Rolls Royce....
the "$500 CAR MY ASS!!1!" crowd is going to have to invest in duct tape for their heads for the 2013 season.
The unveiling of the newest addition to the Team Sensory Assault Arsenal is going to put them into orbit.
Just sayin.
Phil said he wanted a "$500 CAR MY ASS!!!1"(Yes, I remembered to include the 1) theme...here's a car as good as any for that.
As I recall Judge Phil once had one of these...
In fact, this one caught on a local freeway could possibly BE his... allegedly.
My team has threatened me w/ death if I trade the Barracuda for this heap. My justification is the go fast parts for a 65 Mopar are like hens-teeth. The deal hinges on the boys not crashing it in the next race So I have to come up with another idea to get it. I may go with "it'll be better than just sitting rusting away".
Is easier to ask forgivness than permission
Go Bob Go!
carry on.
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