Was just talking to a gentleman who apprenticed at Jack May Pontiac Buick in Manotick ON, and he remembers a few being sold by that dealer. Likely had the Olds 260 V8.
They had an odd shift pattern, reverse and first were on the same plane like a 3 speed standard. Same deal on Monza type cars with 5 speeds so I always assumed it was the same trans.
I've never heard of a Lemans version, only the Olds Cutlass. The transmission was the first design Warner T-5 that was only good for about 305 lbs-ft, as much torque as the 260 would put out. Later T-5s were much stronger.
I know a guy in Oklahoma who bought his 1976 Cutlass S 260 5-speed new. He still has it today but now it has a 455 & a Doug Nash 5-speed
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That five speed was a Borg-Warner T-50. They really couldn't take a huge pounding. They were used in the H-Bodies (Monza and derivatives along with the Cosworth Vega).
I did know a guy that had the 260 V-8 / five speed combo in a Cutlass. He loved that set up. i tried for a while to buy the car from him but he would never sell it. He ended smacking a tree or guardrail or combination thereof. He wanted to sell it then! He had hammered the car so hard it broke the transmission.
That vintage of Cutlass was a sweet car. Good looking, nice ride...
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I think the same transmission was in the '82-83 AMC Spirits and Concords with the five speed option, except with the conventional shift pattern.
The transmissions used in these cars are actually T-5's. They were adapted from the. T-4 with the addition of the fifth gear overdrive. They are not World Class transmissions. They will work fine in moderate horsepower cars but don't really take a ton of abuse.
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