[Since no one (or no company) has access to DMV
records for all the states, those percentages are, at
best, only a guess.
Bob]
--- Mark McDonald <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
>
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