How rare is your Vette?
06-02-2006, 08:37 AM
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How rare is your Vette?
Here is an interesting calculation to do in your spare time:
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>For each option on your car, calculate what ratio of vettes for your year has your car's exact options. If your car does not have an option, then calculate what ratio of vettes (like your car) also did not have the option. Make sure you include what ratio has your color code. Multiply all the ratios together (you should get a a very small number). Now, multiply that small number by the number of total vettes built in that year.
Voila!!! You have just calculated an estimate of the number of vettes made to your car's exact specifications. Counting the color, I calculated that only about 4 77 vettes were made exactly as mine.
Assuming that only 1 out of 4 77 vettes are still on the road, I can say that my 77 vette MAY be the only one left in the world with the exact same option package. Hee, hee.
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>For each option on your car, calculate what ratio of vettes for your year has your car's exact options. If your car does not have an option, then calculate what ratio of vettes (like your car) also did not have the option. Make sure you include what ratio has your color code. Multiply all the ratios together (you should get a a very small number). Now, multiply that small number by the number of total vettes built in that year.
Voila!!! You have just calculated an estimate of the number of vettes made to your car's exact specifications. Counting the color, I calculated that only about 4 77 vettes were made exactly as mine.
Assuming that only 1 out of 4 77 vettes are still on the road, I can say that my 77 vette MAY be the only one left in the world with the exact same option package. Hee, hee.
06-02-2006, 08:51 AM
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It's fun to speculate on how many Corvettes may be like yours, but that's all it is -- speculation. Without actual documentation from GM from which genuine percentages could be derived, no one will ever have a correct answer for "how many."
06-02-2006, 09:02 AM
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There are ONLY two other Vettes like mine and one of those sold this past January for $605K......
...redvetracr
PS: Mine is for sale and I would be tickled with 20%
...redvetracr
PS: Mine is for sale and I would be tickled with 20%
06-02-2006, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by 454_71Stingray
Mine's one of a kind, its the only one thats ever been owned by ME!
How about that! Mine too!
1975: 33,836 coupe's produced.
I am 1 out of 31,914 with A/C
I am 1 out of 35,482 with Power Brakes
I am 1 out of 31,830 with Tele/Tilt steering
I am 1 out of 37,591 with Power Steering
I am 1 out of 28,473 with Turbo Hydra-Matic Automatic Transmission
I am 1 out of 24,701 with AM/FM Stereo
I am 1 out of 2,883 with Bright Yellow paint
So I guess when ya put it that way.. Mine's pretty Unique!
Last edited by sfallison; 06-02-2006 at 09:59 AM.
06-02-2006, 12:25 PM
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I'm still waiting for the owner of the '77 Corvette Chartruese car to chime in here and blow us all away!
06-02-2006, 12:44 PM
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<stating the obvious>
I don't think it's as easy as that... The black book has lots of good stats, but without searching build sheets you can't know how many are identical.
So for my car ('81) I have electric windows, 13567/40606, or 33%. I have a 4 speed, 5757 made. Doesn't necessarily mean that there were 1923 4-speeds with power windows.. Maybe all 4-speeds came with power windows..
</stating the obvious>
But it's fun anyway, so here's the stats on my non-rare '81
Total '81s - 40606
power locks - 36322 - 89.45%
power drivers seat - 29200 - 71.91%
rear defogger - 36893 - 90.86%
electric mirrors - 13567 - 33.41%
4-spd - 5757 - 14.18% -
al wheels - 36485 - 89.85%
power antenna - 32903 - 81.03%
Beige - 3842 - 9.46%
AM/FM/Cassette - 22892 - 56.38% (always thought it odd that the glove box has 8-track tape holders, perhaps it was shipped with an 8-track then swapped??)
Or roughly 44 cars identical to mine.
I think it has CA emissions but I'm not certain so I'm not including it.
I don't know about the Gymkhana suspension, heavy duty shocks, performance axle ratio, or stock tires. How can I find out these things (other than the tires which I couldn't care less about)?
I also find it odd and quite annoying that I have all the power options available EXCEPT cruise control.
edit: Hey, now that I think about it, that makes mine even more rare. Only 8084, 19.19%, didn't have cruise, so now I'm down to 9. Then calculating in the other options (either the have % or don't have %) and I'm probably down to around 5.
I don't think it's as easy as that... The black book has lots of good stats, but without searching build sheets you can't know how many are identical.
So for my car ('81) I have electric windows, 13567/40606, or 33%. I have a 4 speed, 5757 made. Doesn't necessarily mean that there were 1923 4-speeds with power windows.. Maybe all 4-speeds came with power windows..
</stating the obvious>
But it's fun anyway, so here's the stats on my non-rare '81
Total '81s - 40606
power locks - 36322 - 89.45%
power drivers seat - 29200 - 71.91%
rear defogger - 36893 - 90.86%
electric mirrors - 13567 - 33.41%
4-spd - 5757 - 14.18% -
al wheels - 36485 - 89.85%
power antenna - 32903 - 81.03%
Beige - 3842 - 9.46%
AM/FM/Cassette - 22892 - 56.38% (always thought it odd that the glove box has 8-track tape holders, perhaps it was shipped with an 8-track then swapped??)
Or roughly 44 cars identical to mine.
I think it has CA emissions but I'm not certain so I'm not including it.
I don't know about the Gymkhana suspension, heavy duty shocks, performance axle ratio, or stock tires. How can I find out these things (other than the tires which I couldn't care less about)?
I also find it odd and quite annoying that I have all the power options available EXCEPT cruise control.
edit: Hey, now that I think about it, that makes mine even more rare. Only 8084, 19.19%, didn't have cruise, so now I'm down to 9. Then calculating in the other options (either the have % or don't have %) and I'm probably down to around 5.
Last edited by skeptic; 06-02-2006 at 12:51 PM.
06-02-2006, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by mooneyd
That's the way I look at it.
06-02-2006, 01:02 PM
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My 74 is VIN # 1Z67Z4S400036
Roadster
Hardtop
LS4 - 454
Auto
PS - PB - PW
NO factory AC
I don't know how rare it is.....but it may well the FIRST of the LAST ?
Roadster
Hardtop
LS4 - 454
Auto
PS - PB - PW
NO factory AC
I don't know how rare it is.....but it may well the FIRST of the LAST ?
06-02-2006, 01:17 PM
#17
Originally Posted by mvftw
I hope your right...but I don't see how...
Maybe the fact I have power windows and manual door locks makes it rare....
06-02-2006, 01:19 PM
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Le Mans Master
mine is limited.........
only 1 like mine
b
only 1 like mine
b
06-02-2006, 01:42 PM
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1 of 10 In 1962, Rare Enough?
A similar subject was presented as a thread about two months ago right after I looked in the C1 Vette registry. I then found out that a total of 9 other persons ordered a 1962 Vette exactly as I did with the same options. Taking the issue a little further I wondered how many of the 9 others after 44 years still owned the Vette as I do. Interesting, No? 
Now how rare is that statement.
The Original Window Sticker of 107512.
Now how rare is that statement. The Original Window Sticker of 107512.
06-02-2006, 01:57 PM
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dude, Your have way too much free time on your hands i think
Originally Posted by skeptic
<stating the obvious>
I don't think it's as easy as that... The black book has lots of good stats, but without searching build sheets you can't know how many are identical.
So for my car ('81) I have electric windows, 13567/40606, or 33%. I have a 4 speed, 5757 made. Doesn't necessarily mean that there were 1923 4-speeds with power windows.. Maybe all 4-speeds came with power windows..
</stating the obvious>
But it's fun anyway, so here's the stats on my non-rare '81
Total '81s - 40606
power locks - 36322 - 89.45%
power drivers seat - 29200 - 71.91%
rear defogger - 36893 - 90.86%
electric mirrors - 13567 - 33.41%
4-spd - 5757 - 14.18% -
al wheels - 36485 - 89.85%
power antenna - 32903 - 81.03%
Beige - 3842 - 9.46%
AM/FM/Cassette - 22892 - 56.38% (always thought it odd that the glove box has 8-track tape holders, perhaps it was shipped with an 8-track then swapped??)
Or roughly 44 cars identical to mine.
I think it has CA emissions but I'm not certain so I'm not including it.
I don't know about the Gymkhana suspension, heavy duty shocks, performance axle ratio, or stock tires. How can I find out these things (other than the tires which I couldn't care less about)?
I also find it odd and quite annoying that I have all the power options available EXCEPT cruise control.
edit: Hey, now that I think about it, that makes mine even more rare. Only 8084, 19.19%, didn't have cruise, so now I'm down to 9. Then calculating in the other options (either the have % or don't have %) and I'm probably down to around 5.
I don't think it's as easy as that... The black book has lots of good stats, but without searching build sheets you can't know how many are identical.
So for my car ('81) I have electric windows, 13567/40606, or 33%. I have a 4 speed, 5757 made. Doesn't necessarily mean that there were 1923 4-speeds with power windows.. Maybe all 4-speeds came with power windows..
</stating the obvious>
But it's fun anyway, so here's the stats on my non-rare '81
Total '81s - 40606
power locks - 36322 - 89.45%
power drivers seat - 29200 - 71.91%
rear defogger - 36893 - 90.86%
electric mirrors - 13567 - 33.41%
4-spd - 5757 - 14.18% -
al wheels - 36485 - 89.85%
power antenna - 32903 - 81.03%
Beige - 3842 - 9.46%
AM/FM/Cassette - 22892 - 56.38% (always thought it odd that the glove box has 8-track tape holders, perhaps it was shipped with an 8-track then swapped??)
Or roughly 44 cars identical to mine.
I think it has CA emissions but I'm not certain so I'm not including it.
I don't know about the Gymkhana suspension, heavy duty shocks, performance axle ratio, or stock tires. How can I find out these things (other than the tires which I couldn't care less about)?
I also find it odd and quite annoying that I have all the power options available EXCEPT cruise control.
edit: Hey, now that I think about it, that makes mine even more rare. Only 8084, 19.19%, didn't have cruise, so now I'm down to 9. Then calculating in the other options (either the have % or don't have %) and I'm probably down to around 5.