BB, I knew it was bought new by a man who lived in Hershey.......and one of the old metal license plate frames from that dealership just sold on ebay maybe a week ago! I need to find one and use it on the car.........and will see if the dealership that sold the Polara new had them as well - perhaps I can do the same on that! Now i'll drive myself nuts trying to find that plate frame.
66, the standard trans was a 3 spd manual M13 Dearborn with hurst shifter - no kidding, and it is still in it. Odd considering the GP was more of an upscale car. Here's an interesting tidbit though - out of 112,486 GPs made in 69 only abt 338 had the 3 spd manual, abt 676 had the 4 spd either wide or close and the rest were automatics. There were supposedly 3 428 HO cars with the 3 spd manual.
This guy sp ordered it, got the plain trans but wanted some options. Believe it or not 277 of the 338 3 spd cars were the base 400.......i know of 2 others, have seen pics, and supp 2-3 on a registry somewhere but that page was taken down, guess i should have saved a copy - oh well. No idea if the reg ones are the same one I have pics of or not but there are only a handful left, that is for sure.
2 average cars, neither is much to look at but both are conversation pieces.
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