The 1980 Pontiac Lemans & Grand Lemans - Dealer Film (GM125)

Intended for showroom viewing, this video introduces the features, options, styling and engine choices for the 1980 Lemans & Grand Lemans. Available in coupe, sedan or Safari version (see the '80 Wagons video).
Digitized from laserdisc GM125A; audio has been enhanced.

[@cliphound80]

I ❤ the 1978 to 1982 model year Pontiac Lemans or Grand Lemans. One of my favourite car body styles! Been inside one as a kid.The joys of youth! 😊

[@tobyl55]

Love the two tone!

[@ramoncarter6585]

Not a bad looking car it seemed Pontiac back than looked more modern.

[@sodiebergh]

Cory, these videos are incredible, I can't tell you how much I enjoy them. Thank you for spending the time on them and posting!!

[@derrickjackson6737]

I'm a big G Body fan my 1st car was a 78 Regal had a 84 G Body Pontiac Bonneville LE V6 3.8 and other G Body cars 42 yrs later still love these cars timeless classic gem 💎

[@snowleopardgarage]

Great looking car. Fun to build the "up market" Pontiacs of this era as muscle cars. Always the excitement marquee...~

[@severinjohn]

Yay Cedar Point (Sandusky, OH) for providing location excitement for the amusement park scenes!

[@rightlanehog3151]

I hereby declare this - Pontiac Day!! For the record, I owned a 1979 Pontiac LeMans but I know in my heart it could never compete with a 1980 LeMans.

[@paulparoma]

For the record, I owned a 1973 LeMans and a 1977 Grand Prix. Neither could compete with the 1980 LeMans.

[@tomb7382]

Beautiful cars (but I like the Grand Prix of the same years better). My friend's dad had a 1979 Grand LeMans 4 door sedan in that very popular light blue with the matching blue cloth interior. Was a very nice car for the times and the interior was so luxurious and that dashboard was the icing on the cake. The car had most of the options, including the power rear vent windows.

[@chryslerelectronicleanburn1676]

4:06 I remember pushing shopping carts like that when I worked at the grocery store when I was 14 or 15 years old

[@howebrad4601]

Look how nice and classy these look compared to the crap being made today. More luxury available 42 years ago than now in 2022!!!

[@milfordcivic6755]

Too bad none of the engine choices produced more than 110 hp.

[@75aces97]

Yeah, nothing says class and luxury like fake wire wheels, faux wood trim, vinyl roofs, and rear windows that don't roll down.

[@howebrad4601]

@@75aces97 and what exactly are features you propose denote class and luxury? Which vehicles today exude class and luxury? And dont give me an example with hard narrow seats, gunslit windows and ride worse than a pickup truck.

[@howebrad4601]

@@milfordcivic6755 agreed. Thank the us government for mandating higher fuel economy while at the same time mandating very strict emission rules. We are lucky they made anything at all as the mandates were requiring improvements faster than the technology could be developed to achieve them.

[@TadGhostal]

@@howebrad4601 you have seen s class mercedes right

[@olddisneylandtickets]

I have this on a LaserDisc!

[@SchnelleKat]

Want to sell it ???

[@wordenentertainment1997]

Love these promo videos! Do you have the 1979 Pontiac Firebird promo with Smokey and the Bandit director Hal Needham?

[@cadmanist]

Go figure, I've got a handful of 8mm '79 Pontiac films, unfortunately not that one. Sounds great!

[@wordenentertainment1997]

@@cadmanist Awe man. That's ok. But I hope that film surfaces or becomes available. The one uploaded by another channel is in very poor quality and I'd love to see a full quality version like your videos pops up. I'm currently restoring a 79 Y84 Trans Am W72 and I also got a grey 1980 Trans Am.

[@brettb8825]

Kinda diggin' on the 2 tone coupe with the Landau vinyl roof and color keyed wheels. It was almost Grand Prix-ish. Probably cost as much as a Grand Prix with all those options.

[@milfordcivic6755]

It is a G body, so it essentially is a Grand Prix with 4 doors.

[@COYGunners]

Nice looking cars

[@debncolleen]

0:21 This is SO awesome! Is there any way to get a copy of the laserdisk or original film footage? I am the rider in this video that was taken at Win-A-Gin farm in Michigan. Can I send you a private message?

[@milfordcivic6755]

I thought the intro was going to be a clip from Smokey and the Bandit 2, when Jackie Gleason was driving a Bonneville chasing after the Bandit and knocked the roller coaster down. "Make a right turn Daddy, make a left turn Daddy, we be in the clear. YOU MOOSE TWIT!!!"

[@SchnelleKat]

Very cool. Still have my First car i got at 12 or 13, I can't remember but a 1979 Pontiac LeMans base car, 3.8 v6 and ac only option it has. Glacier blue metallic and Light blue interior making it very hard color combo to find nowadays. all original. Very good classy looking cars... better than the olds and malibu in my option.

[@624radicalham]

How do you get a car as a gift when you were you a child?

[@SchnelleKat]

@@624radicalham It's called Good Parents. Learning to drive young.

[@624radicalham]

@@SchnelleKat But it's against the law to be 12 years old and driving. Ah yes, you drive on a dirt field. Still horribly irresponsible. But not just driving, you were "given a car as a gift" at 12. All this adds up to horrible parenting by giving a high value gift (even $200 is high value for a child) to a kid. If anything it's called being total douchebag parents. What other things did they enable you with back then to make you act so entitled today?

[@matthewbucher8954]

These were solid tanks, also the cousin cars century and cutlass. I guess front wheel drive ultimately was cheaper and easier to build,

[@devinbiz]

Not sure but I think one of my dads sisters had a Pontiac LeMans of this generation, back in the 90’s. Could be wrong.

[@drift3rkid66]

Available power steering?! It wasn't standard equipment?!!!

[@epcothorizons9316]

3 speed manual... I wonder how many of those were sold?😂

[@MrZdvy]

My dad bought an ‘80 Grand Lemans used in 1987. Light gray with a dark blue interior. A stylish comfy car. But even with the optional 301 V8 ‘performance’ was a joke, like most other cars of the era. Same goes for the usual rust around the rear window. Also, the rear vent windows had a way of trapping moisture, creating rust holes underneath. The moldings on the bumpers had screws in them because the factory glue became loose. Overall a poor fit & finish. The front seatbelts never locked, not even on hard stops, something I have noticed on other GM cars too. He still drove that car for 9 years🙄

[@pl5624]

They should have sold far better than they did I think they look the best of the conventional 2 doors GM offered then.

[@grocerygoat06]

Pretty much a Malibu with a Pontiac badge.

[@WhittyPics]

They never should have put the Bonneville name on the Lemans

[@paulparoma]

Agree. And they should have never made the Grand Prix a sedan. And they should have never killed Pontiac.

[@DM-hk8gz]

They never did! The Lemans was obviously a mid size, while the Bonnevilles and Catalinas were full size. Owned 2 Bonnevilles, and they looked and drove like the Pontiac flagships that they were!

[@paulparoma]

@@DM-hk8gz Seventh generation (1982-1986)The Bonneville nameplate didn't go anywhere following the discontinuation of full-sized Pontiacs and instead was simply swapped onto the midsized LeMans, which also suffered from poor sales.

[@milfordcivic6755]

@@paulparoma At the end, GM's Pontiac division was making junk. I had a 99 Grand Damn that was the worst vehicle I have ever owned. If I jacked up the rear of the car to rotate the tires, the body had so much flex that I couldn't open the rear doors or close the trunklid.

[@paulparoma]

@@milfordcivic6755 That's because they were desperately trying to compete with the imports by poorly emulating them, instead of doing their own thing well. Bad management.

[@chryslerelectronicleanburn1676]

4:05-4:08 1972 or 1973 Dodge pickup truck mid 70s Lincoln Town Car or Continental

[@ponchoman49]

The good old days. Too bad the stupid second gas crisis had to come along and ruin performance on these early 80's cars!

[@milfordcivic6755]

The performance and gas mileage on any car made today would blow them out of the water.

[@MrZdvy]

Performance on these cars was already ruined in the late ‘70.

[@erichaley6776]

301 V8 was anemic and unreliable