please trust me on this one, i remember you pming me about a year ago asking me if i could help you with ur old tbird, and what kind of mods you should do to it, and a whole bunch of other mn12 platform related questions. And the reason i know tbird lx's came with traction control is two of the three i owned had traction control. In the center console, the button that is normally the trunk release is the traction control on/off button.

And hey tbird genius, the t45 and t56 are both manual trannys, t45 is a five speed, the t56 is a six speed...