All 440 cranks prior to '73 were forged, when the cast crank was introduced in '73 it was generally only used in standard performance motors but later on it found its way into HP motors.

As far as cast cranks with manual transmissions, I'm fairly sure there were cast cranks used with MT's, especially near the end of production.

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