plus an automatic transmission and air conditioning (!) cos it gets hot as bleu hail in Deerburn in the summer and theres no AC in the shops.
Leadership asked a lot of the X Garage at the time, so they tended to get a lot of rope for certain adventures and ideas... like Cammer T-Birds. There were some other adventures, but I'd need to recheck my sources.
Alas, some muckety-muck in finance would ask: "Who authorized all this? Somebody get out there an count those cars! There better be a budget authorization for every one of them."
Any **non conforming** products would go to the boneyard to be crushed out after the brass tags were pulled.