my car is a 1988 pontiac firebird gta w/ a 305 5 speed and tops. built in cali and has 3.45 gears. car has 198,000 miles on original motor and trans a true beauty! bought the car for 500$ and had the interior professional cleaned. did a full tune up and the car runs sweet! just wanted to know how rare my car really is i know it has a 5 speed with a 305 which is rare and also has factory 3.45 gears.... And that is my car guys!

 

According to Frankie's GTASourcepage, your GTA is about 1 of 809 (USA):
http://www.gtasourcepage.com/88RPOFigures.html

You can't really break it down any further to include color/trim combinations as that information wasn't recorded and released. They're all built from Van Nuys from 1988-1992 as the Norwood plant closed after 1987 production.

 

My son has the same car - 1988 GTA 5 speed. 1 of 809 produced.

In 1988, 26% of GTA's had T tops, so you could surmise that you have approximately 1 of 210. It may not be dead accurate, but this estimate can't be too far off.

Year
Model
Body
Engine
Driveline

These are the only things that count if you want to consider rarity.

 

yeah and i dont know if the pictures showed up but my color of the car is gunmetal grey metallic and i bought the car for 450$$ Lol so i think i scored really big : )

 

Looking at the code list in my car i guess only 7 were made with the 4 way power driver seat which i have and the code matchs up!!! Thank you for the link! CODE: AH3

 

Can you post your SPID?

Here's a post by Frankie that indicates all GTAs had that:
http://www.gtasourcepage.com/forum/s...d.php?p=388106

 

Oh Yeah ill post it give me a few LOL...

 

AH3 says it is a 4 way manual seat. So what is correct?

 

Pics!

A good running, nice condition, LB9/T5/3.45 car for $500? What a steal!

 

All GTA's had the same seats as far as what's power and what's adjustable...only differences between them is the color and whether they're leather or cloth.

 

The mixed results of SPIDs with or without AH3 on GTAs, despite I thought all GTAs had the same setup (as illustrated below), along with GTASourcepage showing 7 of them for 1988 with AH3 "Manual 4-Way Seat Adjuster" has me a bit confused on exactly what AH3 really is.

 

Still waiting on pictures Bryans. Would love to see it!

 

Well sure enough, the picture tells the story...that definitely looks like a non-adjustable lower front cushion to me, which I thought wasn't available until 1996 when they went to non-adjustable lower front cushions through the end of the 4th gen production run. Weird!

 

The picture above came from eBay and was just used as an illustration. There was no SPID posted with it.

I actually thought the front cushion was folded over using the adjustment. You could be right.

Still, I'm not sure that this answers what AH3 is. My GTAs do not have AH3 despite they do have the adjustable seats on both sides. GTASourcepage says AH3 is "Seat Adjuster, Manual 4-Way Driver".

Maybe if bryans88bird could post pictures of his seats and tell us if both sides are the same, it may help answer the AH3 question since his GTA has it and is only 1 of 7 that apparently do.