Not necessarily. My dad had and then passed to my brother, a 76 feather duster /6 3 speed manual brakes (4 wheel 9" drums) manual steering. I remember I used to have a get book of all the service bulletins from 1976 and there was something about 76 model year cars built after 1/1/76 being govt mandated to have front disc brakes and up to then could still have front drums. And this one did.