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I am currently working primarily on the Second Generation Firebirds(1970 to 1981) and the productions figures associated with each year, but I do have some earlier figures as well.

Year	Esprit	Firebird	Formula	Trans Am
1969		86,314		697
1970	18,961	18,874	7,708	3,196
1971	20,185	23,021	7,802	2,116
1972	11,415	12,000	5,250	1,286
1973	17,249	14,096	10,166	4,802
1974	22,583	26,372	14,519	10,255
1975	20,826	22,293	13,670	27,274
1976	22,252	21,209	20,613	46,701
1977	34,548	30,642	21,801	68,745*
1978	36,926	32,672	24,346	93,341
1979	30,853	38,642	24,851	117,108
1980	17,277	29,811	9,356	50,896
1981	10,938	20,541	5,927	33,493

Just as a side note: There were 82,560 1967 Firebirds and 107,112 1968 Firebirds Produced

1969 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
Coupe RamAir III	520	114	634
Convertible RamAir III	4	4	8
Coupe RamAir IV	46	9	55
Total Production			697

1970 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
RamAir III	1,769	1,339	3,108
RamAir IV	59	29	88
Total Production			3,196

1971 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
455 H.O.	885	1,231	2,116
Total Production			2,116

1972 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
455 H.O.	458	828	1,286
Total Production			1,286

1973 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
455	1,420	3,130	4,550
SD - 455	72	180	252
Total Production			4,802

1974 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
400	1,750	2,914	4,664
455	0	4,648	4,648
SD - 455	212	731	943
Total Production			10,255

1975 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
400	6,140	20,277	26,417
455 H.O.	857	0	857
Total Production			27,274

1976 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
400	¨	¨	37,015
L.E. 400	¨	¨	1,628
T-Top L.E. 400	¨	¨	533
455 H.O.	7,099	0	7,099
SE 455 H.O.	319	0	319
T-Top L.E 455 H.O.	110	0	110
Total Production			46,701

1977 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
L78	0	29,313	29,313
L80	0	5,079	5,079
W72	8,319	10,466	18,785
S.E. L78	0	748	748
S.E. L80	0	180	180
S.E. W72	384	549	933
S.E. L78 w/ T-Tops	0	6,030	6,030
S.E. L80 w/ T-Tops	0	1,217	1,217
S.E. W72 w/ T-Tops	2,699	3,760	6,459
Total Production			68,745*

1978 Breakdown:

Don't ask me why 1978 was a bad year for keeping track.

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
L78	0	¨	¨
W72	10,916**	61,147**	72,081**
L80	0	8,969	8,969
Y82 S.E. L78	0	¨	¨
Y82 S.E. W72	489	2,856	3,345
Y84 S.E. L78	0	¨	¨
Y84 S.E. L80	0	210	210
Y84 S.E. W72	20	68	88
Y88 S.E. L78	0	¨	¨
Y88 S.E. L80	0	880	880
Y88 S.E. W72	1,267	6,519	7,768
Total Production			93,341

**Note: There were 12,692 Manual Transmission and 70,590 Automatic Transmission units built in 1978 between the L78 and W72 models. Some of the numbers are broken down above, but some have not yet been broken down. If you take the sections with the ¨ in them, these are the ones that have not been broken down as of yet.

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1979 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
301	1,590	7,015	8,605
403	0	48,488	48,488
400	2,485	0	2,485
T-Top 301	1,530	3,301	4,831
T-Top 403	0	30,728	30,728
T-Top 400	2,917	0	2,917
S.E. 301	213	360	573
S.E. 403	0	9,874	9,874
S.E. 400	1,107	0	1,107
10th Anniversary 403	0	5,683	5,683
10th Anniversary 400	1,817	0	1,817
Total Production			117,108

1980 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
301	0	14,866	14,866
305	0	1,653	1,653
301 Turbo	0	5,753	5,753
T-Top 301	0	8,692	8,692
T-Top 305	0	896	896
T-Top 301 Turbo	0	7,176	7,176
S.E. 301	0	72	72
S.E. 305	0	12	12
S.E. 301 Turbo	0	103	103
S.E. T-Top 301	0	2,084	2,084
S.E. T-Top 305	0	463	463
S.E. T-Top Turbo	0	3,444	3,444
Indy Pace Car Turbo	0	5,700	5,700
Total Production			50,896

1981 Breakdown:

Option	Manual	Auto	Total
301	0	5,087	5,087
305	2,866	0	2,866
301 Turbo	0	3,851	3,851
T-Top 301	0	4,589	4,589
T-Top 305	3,225	0	3,225
T-Top 301 Turbo	0	6,612	6,612
S.E. 301	0	41	41
S.E. 305	15	0	15
S.E. 301 Turbo	0	65	65
S.E. T-Top 301	0	1,160	1,160
S.E. T-Top 305	932	0	932
S.E. T-Top Turbo	0	3,050	3,050
Turbo Pace Car	0	2,000	2,000
Total Production			33,493

Note: All 1970 - 1981 Models are Hardtop Coupes

Note: L.E. is Limited Edition

Note: S.E. is Special Edition

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