[mrrat1]

Super nice............Congrats on a job well done!!

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by ssj71

Grant, can you verify the 52 or 58?

That 58 number I posted was from John Gunnell's 1982 book "75 Years of Pontiac-Oakland." I think some of the production numbers he included back then may have been updated/corrected in the meantime, but either way they didn't build very many of them.

[David Jones]

Nice ride.

[ssj71]

Originally Posted by Stuart

That 58 number I posted was from John Gunnell's 1982 book "75 Years of Pontiac-Oakland." I think some of the production numbers he included back then may have been updated/corrected in the meantime, but either way they didn't build very many of them.

I think the 52 may have come from Fred Simmonds, but honestly can't recall, and I've seen both the 58 and 52 numbers floating around, so yes, either way, it's low.

[Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Stuart

I believe 1971 was the last year they offered a manual transmission in the GP.

It was the last year for the 'big' GPs, and non-Chevrolet B-bodies to offer a manual.
The 1979 Grand Prix was available w/4-speed and that was the end, for RWD GP. It was a one year only for the 108" wheel base.

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by Lightfoot

It was the last year for the 'big' GPs, and non-Chevrolet B-bodies to offer a manual.
The 1979 Grand Prix was available w/4-speed and that was the end, for RWD GP. It was a one year only for the 108" wheel base.

Manual transmission B body cars were dropped in I think March or April of that model year. Only three speed on the column, and just a handful were built. There was a discussion in the big car forums down below a while back, and only one person had even seen one of those cars. I'd love to have one, though...I daily drove a '71 Catalins for years (with auto, of course) and it was a great car.

[flyingn]

Love the 71 GP's! And a 4 speed! Home run! Beautiful job

[Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Stuart

Manual transmission B body cars were dropped in I think March or April of that model year. Only three speed on the column, and just a handful were built. There was a discussion in the big car forums down below a while back, and only one person had even seen one of those cars. I'd love to have one, though...I daily drove a '71 Catalinas for years (with auto, of course) and it was a great car.

Yeah, I was aware of the early cut-off.
Not sure if it was me in the discussion you mention, but my brother owned a '71 LeSabre sedan with the 3-speed column shift. He had it for about five years, and decided it was doing it more harm than good to keep it in a 90 year old barn; and the good weather driving season is so short here in Maine....so he reluctantly sold it.

Where I grew up in Michigan, there was an elderly couple three doors down the street from us that had a '72 Biscayne with a 6-cylinder 3-speed. I remember it well. It was fathom green with dog dish hubcaps. I think it may have been the last car they ever owned.