There's stuff in the trunk, but no key to open it. Appears to have original interior but no motor, no transmission. LeMans Tempest started out innocently enough. A interesting Piece of GM history for any collection.1963 Pontiac LeMans Tempest on eBay – Click above for high-res image gallery 8/10 due to the engine block and loose Delco battery. The steel wheels and dog dish hubcaps with red line tires look great. Suspension at all four corners works and is independent just like the real thing. But remeber, its plastic and they make nasty noises but its very cool. Spin the rear wheels and watch the u joints and shafts spin. Flip the car over, theres your Transaxel, cables and all.
Mechanicals: The engine is fully wired, even a "Delco" battery hideing in there but the engine itself leave a little to be desired. Look on the Door Silll and there is the "Body by Fisher" Logo, a staple of GM cars for many many years. The Vynal seats are so real you can almost get flashback of sticking to them on a hot summer day. No seatbelts here, they werent mandatory till 1964. Open the trunk, there is your spare, but be careful, dont smuge the accurate vynal mat. Got some freinds? Fold the seats forward and get em in there.
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Little warm ? Open the vent windows a little. Feet a little dirty? There 4 floor mats to proect that nice carpeting. Interior: This is really something, grab the pick and open the glovebox. 8 of 10 due to the loose gas filler door and missing tailight. I will be contacting Highway 61 About this, hopefuly they will be like GMP, when my 93 Cobra Arrived missing its driveshaft and was promtly replaced. My car is missing its right rear lower tailight. The trunk also has correct hinges and just below is the gas fill door, which flips open, but is a bit loose. Very nice grillework with the correct emblems. The headlamps are OK, not great, a hint of a peg in there but not bad at all.
Pop the hood witht he pick, and there before your eyes appear to be factory correct Pontiac Hinges to open and close the hood, with springs and all. 9 out of 10 here.īody: The doors open on realisitc Hinges, and open and close just as a good diecast should, no dog legs here. otherwise there are no runs and no errors, the emblems are wonderful, i found myself picking at the "tempest" script, its a sort of decal, but fools you into thinking its an acutal emblem. Paint: Ive bought mine in a stunning Black, Ive found 2 small Imperfections perhaps dust or poor mixing. With the History lesson over, ill put on the gloves, grab the pick the model came with and guide you thruough this little Gem. With the Alumium V8 the tempest was almost a 50/50 weight distribution car, making for in 1960s standards great handleing. Which was acutally a 336 Cube Truck engine. Through these 3 years you had a few powertrain options, from a 4 cyl carved from a pontiac V8 to buicks great little Alumium V8 engine to the 326 V8. Pontiac, Had the Tempest, with a rear mounted tranny Independent rear suspension and a rope like driveshaft connected to the engine (think weed whacker). A truely revoultionary Group of cars, Oldsmobile had a version with the First Production Turbocharged V8 (Jet Fire), Chevrolet had the Corvair with a rear mounted engine, Buick would release a Alumium V8 that lived on in production long after the car in Brittian (the 3.5 litre or 215cid to us yanks) they also introduced the great buick tradition of the V6 engine. It came from a family of cars called "A body". Go to BMW and theyll show you a couple cars too.īut in this rare group is a car that predates all of them. Theyll show you a C5 or C6 vette or a Cadillac XLR. So, go down to your local GM dealer today and ask for a car with a v8 up front, independent rear suspension, and a transmission in the rear.
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