It’s a ‘71-‘74 B-body “non-console” shifter, so, yes, it would have been for bench seat cars as they wouldn’t have had a console. The non-console 71-74 B’s used the forward shift pad on the 833’s.
The ‘71-74 B’s that had a center console used the same handle as the E bodies did, and used the rear shift pad on the B/E 833
