eBay Find of the Day: 1963 LeMans Tempest sells for $226,521
Restored
Wrong color scheme. Needs more pink.
bad ass i love history
Those where awsome
that is badass
that is pretty awesome
i agree that is a gay pontiac.
Sickest Gay Pontiac ever.
Well, it is from DickInSon Texas, so what do you really expect?
It is cool to see the old Nostalgia racers still out there. but Pontiac people are weird…that is not a 200k car.
I always feel nostalgic when Gay is piloting his 421 inches straight into Dickinson.
what an awesome story… events like that aren’t going to happen for much longer. once all these old heads die, no ones going to care (so i’ll own them all 
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That is a '62 Catalina pictured above, not a '63 Tempest. The Tempest story in the link is not completely accurate, but pretty close. There was a big story on it in High Performance Pontiac magazine a few months ago. The Catalina is a very famous Super Duty race car driven by Don Gay. In the Pontiac circles, $200k for this car is not big money. There are still alot of original Pontiac Super Duty race cars out there, and the guys with the cash will spend it.
'62-'63 Catalinas are pretty sweet cars. I’d love to build a Super Duty replica/clone, someday. Unfortunately to build it correct & a ‘true clone’, it would cost almost as much as buying the real deal. There are alot of unique parts that only Super Duty cars & Lightweight cars got. Remember that Pontiac ruled in the NHRA Super Stock classes back then. They were funding the drag racers to build faster ‘stock’ cars than the competition. The drag racers were using prototype stuff & Pontiac’s engineering team was coming out with crazy stuff every day. The 421 Super Duty topped out at a factory rated 405 horsepower, but it was known to make far more than what was advertised (approx 500 crank HP).
Here are some pics from the Pontiac-Oakland-Club-International (POCI) & GTOAA CoVention that I went to in July. There were approximately 50-60 original race Pontiacs there. Only a few unrestored, though.
1963 Cataline Super Duty Lightweight (Aluminum front sheet metal/bumpers/plexi windows) w/swiss cheese frame - I believe 1 of about 59 cars built:
1962 Catalina Super Duty:
1963 Catalina Light weight non-swiss cheese - another of the 59 cars built - I think 25 of them were not swiss cheese:
The blue car above has looked exactly like this since at least 1985 when I first saw it at the GTOAA Nationals in Michigan. I used to have pictures of it, but they were lost in the house fire at my parents house. It has changed hands a few times, but it is still in almost all original condition. I think it was repainted in the late '70s. I think the odometer read somewhere around 400 miles (last month). Those are all 1/4 mile at a time.
EDIT - The Tempest is undergoing a restoration currently. It is being done by Scott Teimann, one of the most respected Pontiac restorers in the world.