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so my car was an original standard interior that I have upgraded to deluxe..I plan on not installing the dash assist handle as I just cannot bring myself to drilling the holes for the handle...plus if the next restorer wants the car 100% original they will not have 2 holes and curse me out...but check out this car ...a 1972 TRANS AM with deluxe interior...the interior certainly looks original...those have to be original door panels...P.U.I. would have been obvious and Legendary only recently came out with upper door panels plus those panels are definitely O.E.M...or they would have to be LEGENDARY...however the plastic lowers match the uppers something difficult when redoing Firebird interiors in colors.(.thats a photo I took off of my computer)....so is it possible that the factory forgot to install the assist handle???....I just do not think that the car in this photo would have had its interior changed....anyway so I am just going with the theory that a car could have slipped through with a deluxe interior and come without the assist handle....how to explain the photos of this car?...and 1972 is a unique color and cover...these would most likely have to have been from another Firebird with a deluxe interior...so anyway I do prefer the look of no handle as the look of a clean dash is what I prefer...and I am not just saying that to explain my no dash handle!!