1968 Pontiac LeMans Sport Truck

Want this.

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/pontiac/lemans/1629578.html?refer=blog



Description:
Offered for sale is a Pontiac LeMans Concept Sport Truck 350 V8, A/T, PS, PWR Disc brakes, am/fm radio,Tilt Steering, Delco super lift and GM Trailer hitch. This sport truck is 1 of 1 Prototype constructed new in 1967 for presentation and review for production by Pontiac Motor Division President. It is believed to have been responsible for the introduction of the GMC Sprint. This truck shows to have only 34,000 actual miles and comes with original window sticker prepared for Pontiac, Original build pictures and the original newspaper articles. Also, original Pontiac dealer owned since new and featured in Muscle Car Review and Pontiac Smoke Signals. This truck looks and runs great and would be a great collectors piece.

Price: $69,500

 

Nice clean (i.e. pre emissions) engine bay. El Camino with slightly different body work?

mike

 

All it is, is an Elco with LeMans sheet metal. It would be like putting a T-bird or Cougar front clip on a same model year Ranchero. The A-body underpinnings are virtually the same between all the models.

 

The thing is, this was done by the factory, not just anyone, and that makes it an official one of none, real deal piece of history.

 

All that work and not a gto why?

 

That does look pretty darn nice, simple, and clean.

Does make you wonder..........

 

Here's a few from the blue oval.

 

Many GM cars look the same, but aren't. Some station wagons and coupes use fenders and doors that won't fit a sedan in the same model range.
Cavalier sedans and coupes use sheet metal that won't interchange.
GM wasted a lot of money by making models, even within the same product line, very different.
I'm sure KK has had to deal with this kind of problem before.
The LeMans 'ute' is cool, but I can see why GM didn't produce the model for sale.
It probably has a Pontiac V8 instead of the El Camino's Chevrolet engine.
The rebadged GMC Caballero/ El Camino would have been much more cost effective to produce than a genuine Pontiac ute would have been..
I think for that particular car, the price is very fair.

 

I would certainly want to see the paperwork that proves it's a Pontiac prototype. Wouldn't be hard at all for an individual to put something like this together themselves. Lots have done it. here's some others... (Just do a Google image search for Pontiac 'El Camino'......)

Maybe the same one, but with a vinyl roof?




This one's the later version, but it's cool - a Grand Prix A-Mino....

 

I would've called it a "Grand Prix Camino Real." But it's a big thing to collectors of these pickups. I've seen a late '80s Elco with the 'aero' GP sheetmetal; three or four Rancheros with Mercury sheetmetal. I had a chance (But not the money, darn it) to buy a '78 Cougar XR-7 that was the same Midnight Blue color as the original paint on my Chero and blue interior with leather seats and headrests (Ranchero seats, AFAIK, never had headrests from the factory), and cast aluminum wheels with "Sign of the Cat' centercaps.

 

I like the Montegochero best!

 

I like all of those posted. I miss my son's 1976 El Camino with the 73 single round headlight nose.

 

There is one build with a 76 Grand Am front end as well, but the pictures are eluding me right now.

 

$69,500!

Are you kidding me?!?