About 2 weeks ago I went down to the car market in Juarez, MX to see just maybe if I found another bird instead of fixing my wrecked one. I saw a 96 Trans Am standard red with T-tops. Only that the body looked like that of a 98 and above without ram air though. The lights were honeycomb and I verified the year. How can that be? Were some 1996 models made with the front body and lights similar to that of the 1998's and above? I am positive that they did not do the conversion because the dude told me it was black but then painted red. Oh by the way the car had only 78,000 miles selling for $6,900 or best offer. My mouth watered as I walked away. If you could have only seen that car.

No 1996 models came with the 98 up front nose unless it was swapped onto it. All 1993-1997 cars had the same front end on them. The only thing that was the same between all the 93-02 cars was from the doors back (doors, mirrors, rear quarter panels, rear bumper, spoilers). The taillights being different are no big thing really. Lots of people like the looks of the honeycomb style better then the normal LT1 lines style ones and just swap them out since they interchange.

But if it is an actual 1996 with the 1998 up front end and the guy told you it wasn't swapped out he's lying big time so I'd avoid that car if at all possible no matter how nice it looked.