Hemmings Find of the Day – 1968 Pontiac LeMans sport truck

Because this 1968 Pontiac LeMans sport truck for sale on Hemmings.com once appeared in Smoke Signals, the magazine of the Pontiac-Oakland Club International, we reached out to Don Keefe, editor of the magazine, for some background. He said that a group of Pontiac dealers in the Midwest, unhappy that Pontiac didn’t get their own version of the Chevrolet El Camino, pooled their resources to build this car by melding a LeMans Safari station wagon nose (and, as we see from the photos, dash and drivetrain) with an El Camino chassis and cab. “It was done pretty much exactly how a factory version would have been done, with the only Chevy parts being the cab and bed body section,” Keefe said. “This car was not a factory-done car but provenance aside, it was a nicely-executed version that would have been 99-100 percent like a factory version would have ended up.” Looks to be in pretty decent shape too. From the seller’s description:

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.

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