how many are left

[Mark McDonald <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Thanks for that info.  Kind of sad, to me, to think that %90 of the 68s
are gone.

I do think while those statistics may be true in general, some cars are
exceptions.  For instance, convertibles, and/or the first and last model
of anything.  I think people tend to preserve rarer bodystyles, or if
they think the car will be more valuable later on.  The reason I say
this is, there seem to be an awful lot of '68 convertibles out there.

Jim Gathmann wrote:

> Actually, the '71 car would be about as rare (if not
> more rare) due to the rate in which cars are
> destroyed.
>
> Once I had stats on the % of cars which survive after
> production. It basically came down to a small majority
> of cars of a specific model (+/-65%) will be destroyed
> within the first decade after production.
>
> By two decades, that number is up to +/- 80% destroyed
> since production date (also- destroyed referes to
> being crashed, sent to a junk yard, recycled, etc.).
>
> By three or more decades, about 90% of the cars made
> since production date are gone. Fogret if those
> numbers are right (going by memory- had it all nicely
> done up on a poster once).
>
> So if you really think about it, your '83 is far more
> common then the 1987 Reliant KPL21 sedan (2 door), as
> only 200 of those were made originally! (as seen @
> www.allpar.com).