what year trans are interchangeable with the 96?

 

Are you just looking for a stock transmission?

I looked it up at a site called car-part dot com. They only show 1996/1997, so definitely those two years.

I would think that the 94/95 should work. The 94/95 are obd1 and the 96/97 are obd2. The engines are pretty much identical, except that one sensor got moved from the distributor to the engine block, so the transmissions can't be that much different.