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The base engine in the 78 Skylark was the 3.8-liter Buick V6, rated at 110 horsepower. GM had invested in a new crankshaft design for this engine the year before, so it no longer had the odd-fire cut-down V8 crankshaft that shook the fillings out of so many drivers teeth in earlier years. An assortment of low-compression V8s from Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Buick were available as optional equipment as well, eventually leading to the Chevymobile lawsuits of a few years later.
The base transmission in this car was a three-speed manual (I m not sure if you could still get a three-on-the-tree column-shift manual Skylark in 1978, but a three-on-the-floor manual was available for sure). The very last three-on-the-tree car Americans could buy was the 79 Nova and its Olds Omega/Pontiac Phoenix siblings, while the final three-on-the-floor cars were the 81 Malibu and siblings. This car has the optional three-speed automatic.