The sun is wasting its energy. We are in the middle of the summer of 2014 as opposed to the successor in 2015 lives up to its name. It’s hot in the woods in Gnarp. by Krantz
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Lasse Jonasson pokes the door open to the newly built garage.
– I did say it didn’t I – handy!
Lasse is a construction worker. The garage is large, high, wide, nicely, dreamy.
He has nice house, a renovated moped and a fantastic classic boat too.
Some seem to have four hands. Worldkustom will return to the boat and moped another time.
Pontiac shines like a ruby in the forest. The paint is seven years old. He doesn’t drive much Lasse. Mostly he renovates and sets things in order
-I bought it in 2006. I had one in the eighties and the buy was … well a relapse. I drove around the block and tore it apart, he says
Lasse wondered if the Pontiac Le Mans 1968 would end up being a cruiser or a muscle car. Well , it tipped over the muscle car’s direction quite quickly. Under is a a shortened 10 bolt axle 3:44: 1 ratio. The tranny is a prepped 350 and the motor a Pontiac 400 small block over bored 00:40.
The tank was shortened to accommodate exhaust piping which also got an X-pipe further in. The car makes sense now for its complete long name. 1968 Pontiac Le Mans Sport Convertible. The tank holds 11 gallons now.
The body was good but as often the convertibles floor drains rusty due to water that has leaked in and remained under the carpets. Lasse welded in new wells. He did not get the doors flush and asked Roger Isaksson for help to fit them in.
-That’s sledgehammer work said Roger and pounded on the Pontiac well up here.
We roll off on the narrow gravel road while the warm dust settles on the Cragar SST wheels. The sky is blue and the t-shirt sitting on just for the polite sake. A day like this Swedes undress and let the rare sun get full access to the winter blubber.
A narrow asphalt strip takes over and Lasse opens the roof. He has let the vinyl convertible go and instead mounted a canvas top.
Pontiac rumbles healthy, stops, kneels and put the rear wheels in spin. It is easy. The engine is rough strong. Although Lasse changed to aftermarket brakes no pads in the world would resist when the fourhundred takes a sip of gasoline and arm wressle the asphalt.
Lasse releases the brake and the Le Mans hurries on along the land borders, driveways, shady corners and sunny straights. Firm and nice in the springs and bolts and rods and bars. Generous space and fast, fast, fast. With the sun in your face and the wind in your ears, it feels like 400 horse.
Plus that it is open then. What a terrific focused machine from Pontiac in the middle of the Flower Power movement among brush painted VW buses and grass smoking beards while we Swedes cheered the Volvo 144 and its new “BigBlock” (sarcasm) B20 of 90 hp.
What a straight message from the GM. No fuss.
Power, fitness, convertible.
6400 were manufactured, Lasse heard somewhere.
Worldkustom do not know and do not care. We enjoy this single one. So fresh, so well renovated, so carefully composed during three years.
It was completed in 2009 with the GTO hood and everything but as I said, Lasse doesn’t drive a lot.
And now it is for sale, he announces. Cell’s 046 70-311 1486
– You may sell the Pontiac then but you do not sell the Zundapp, said his companion Monica.
Maybe something new is in the huge garage? Something that should take three years to bring in to new condition. Nobody knows today. These handy men and their machines
