Did you date him for himself...or his car? It was a BIG deal back then.
It wasn’t that big a deal among motor heads. In the stripped version, it was a secretary’s car. Loaded with options, doctors’ wives went crazy over them. In a couple of years when more horsepower was offered, they became more respectable but, with the exception of the 428 and 429 motors, not on the level of the big block Mopars or GM’s.
OK so you have elicited a confession on my part. I was in love with a boy in high school, who drove a Pontiac Lemans convertible.... It was a sweet car, leather seats. A creamy beige with brown convertible top. For years, he was “the one that got away”.... This would have been about 1973-75 era.