Corvette options books
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Burning Brakes
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From: Scottdale Pa
Corvette options books
Is there a book or a website that has information on options for each year and how many cars were produced with certain option combinations? Example: How many 1980 silver L48 automatics came with dark claret leather interior? Is there something that breaks it down better than The Black Book?
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Burning Brakes
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From: Scottdale Pa
I just thought with the internet and all the resources out there that there may be a website of this sort of thing that may have been put into book form. After all there is plenty of other use less stuff avalible 
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Try this link. I don't know if it breaks it down any further than the Black Book though.
http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/specs/
http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/specs/
Drifting
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There are more detailed references such as Corvette by the Numbers and the NCRS manuals, but I don't think the information you are looking for exists. When the cars were made no one kept track of option combinations.
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You are asking a very commonly asked question. The records are not available to determine how many cars were built with various combinations of options. Typically, the next step taken is to prorate options to make a statistical guess, so if 10% of the cars were red, and 20% had air conditioning, then let's assume that 20% of the red cars also had a/c. So you can estimate it, but you really don't know. Maybe in reality there were NO red cars with air conditioning!! The other way is to gather data after the fact. I believe the 1970 registry has gathered so much data on surviving 1970 corvettes that they have even attempted to estimate combinations of options built based on their data. This method also has obvious pitfalls, as in how do we know if options observed today are original options, and maybe certain popular options are more likely to survive than other combinations.
The other way is to gather data after the fact. I believe the 1970 registry has gathered so much data on surviving 1970 corvettes that they have even attempted to estimate combinations of options built based on their data. This method also has obvious pitfalls, as in how do we know if options observed today are original options, and maybe certain popular options are more likely to survive than other combinations.
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