In 1972, Pontiac designed a rear spoiler for their Lemans and GTO models,
a design copied from their popular Firebird Formula and Trans Am models.
Dubbed a "ducktail spoiler", Pontiac intended to offered this spoiler as an
option, but as luck would have it, the mold for the spoiler broke after only
a handful of spoilers were made, and the excessive cost of creating a new
mold was not deemed feasible, so Pontiac simply deleted the option. Only
a couple cars were rumored to have been built with the spoiler, and the
remaining spoilers Pontiac had produced were unceremoniously dumped
into the parts bins. Unfortunately, Super Stock Magazine printed an article
late in the model year (March 1972) of a Lemans GT using the ducktail
spoiler, an option which had already been deleted from Pontiac's 1972
options list.
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