Factory 4 speed manual. 1973 Pontiac Grand Am 4-door 4-speed RARE - cars & trucks - by owner... (craigslist.org)
I always wanted a 4 door Grand Am with a manual transmission. That price is about 10X what they were going for when I had my (2D auto) Grand Am 15-20 years ago. Other than AC and the radio, absolutely no options though. Even the buckets\console were standard.
I almost bought a 74 4-Door 4-Speed GA about 10 years ago, if it wasn't Golden Olive (Light Green) With a Dark Green interior, and the fact that it was a No A/C car I probably would have bought it if it was a different color scheme. Later I found out it was 1 of about 15 made in 1974. And the only non A/C version. Oh well. I already have an ugly green 4-speed 73 Lemans safari. So I am at my limit of ugly green cars. That 73 looks good. But is a bit high on the asking price IMO. Also I think the seller is confused about the number of 73 4-door 4-speeds made. I think it was around 150 if my memory is still good. The 12 number he quotes is more likely for the 74 Model year.
Yeah, the number that used to float around in the Grand Am groups 20+ years ago was like 20 4-doors and 187 2-doors with manuals, which we know are incorrect numbers now. It's widely been proven that 2400+ manuals were made across all A-bodies in 1973, 1100ish of which were '73 GTOs (numbers from the GM Heritage Center researchers). Taking those numbers and basing the numbers of survivors people have found and extrapolating percentages, they estimate probably ~750 or so 2-door Grand Ams had manual transmissions and since like 25% of Grand Ams were 4 doors, it would probably follow that around 100-150 4-doors were likely made with manual transmissions. This is the 3rd one I've seen over the years - a yellow, a green, and now a white so far. The 12 or 20 or whatever low number makes way more sense for 1974 since that was the last year of a manual transmission in the Grand Am and ALL Pontiac A-bodies only came with like 800 something manual transmissions (plus no GTO option to skew numbers) and Grand Am production tanked in 1974.
The interior is incredible, the red plastic usually fall apart if exposed to the sun for even short periods. I think this would be a great car for about 20K. I wonder if the nose is original or fiberglass?
I think it's fiberglass just looking at the pictures closely. I had a fiberglass nose on mine as almost all of the original noses had fallen apart by the 1990s and I can't imagine someone would have repainted the car and redone the stripes on a nose that disintegrated by 15-20 years ago and had it actually stay together.
