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wagonman76 · 04-01-2009, 01:43 PM

I believe that for the 97 model year, carmakers had to have some sort of side impact door beams which changed the overall construction quite a bit. Maybe there were other changes needed too. GM chose to ditch the models that had been out awhile and would have needed major retooling.

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