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Working at a Pontiac dealer in 1970 in Erie PA we had a 69 Vedoro green 4 door B body come in to the service dept. I think it was a Catalina, but being we were right across the lake from Canada it could have been a Canadian car. It had a 3 on the tree and a 250 inch inline 6 in it. one of the weirdest B bodies I ever saw.

Back in the late 60s Pontiac stick cars were few and far between. I remember a 60 Catalina 389 with a 3 speed stick and the E (economy) designated engine in it with the small 2bbl that normally came on the 283 chevys.

A couple 61 bubble tops, 1 Catalina, and 1 was a Ventura. I bought a 56 Starchief with a 317 4bbl that had a 3 speed column shift in it and I also owned a 63 Catalina that was a 389 4bbl, originally a three speed column shift. When I bought it someone had put a BW T10 in it, but the column shift was still visible with the lever removed.

We scoured every junk yard in and around Erie for stick shift Pontiacs, as far as I remember those were it. That encompasses the full size cars from 55-64 I remember after hunting for cars for flywheels, bellhousing, and pedal/cross shaft/pivot ball assemblies. Being we were racing full size cars at the local oval track we were always on the lookout for stick cars for parts.

If you wanted to convert a chevy to a stick, almost every yard had a stick setup for a chevy, because most of my buddies had chevys and we converted more than a few over from powerglides, and even did a turboglide conversion. Fords had some stick cars in yards too, never converted any of those though.

Buicks and olds big cars were even more rare than Pontiacs, think I saw one buick, I don't remember any oldsmobiles.