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Old Nov 5, 2012 | 09:36 AM
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in 1973, how many big-block convertibles were built? How many in Elkhart Green? Anyone have numbers on this? I was unable to find in online
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Originally Posted by chstitans42
in 1973, how many big-block convertibles were built? How many in Elkhart Green?...I was unable to find in online
You won't find it. GM did not keep data on options combinations. For 73s, I have not seen figures for actual paint numbers.

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Maybe this can help, register your car and it does break down at the end the stats and approx how many were built with those options. and when the car was built. I found out my car was built on my birthday. And if your car is already registered you may have to e-mail and get admin rights to change the information to your name, I had to do this and I did add pictures. So get your VIN and look for your car, if is not on there, add it. Look up the correct year

here is mine 1969 vert, VIN 194679S707731, Check it out it says 1379 for my car


http://www.c3registry.org/index.php?uid=5362

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I haven't seen the numbers on the paint choices either. what about verts with bb engines?
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Originally Posted by chstitans42
I haven't seen the numbers on the paint choices either. what about verts with bb engines?
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You won't find it. GM did not keep data on options combinations. For 73s, I have not seen figures for actual paint numbers.

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about 16% were convertibles and about 15% had BB.. comes to about 700.. along with probably a whopping statistical error factor.. the more options you add, the greater the error.

the c3 registry shows 7.3% are elkhart green, probably massive database errors in that one too since only a little over 2% of cars are in the database. and people scrape off the green and paint their car red, and report red on the database.

this bring your total down to about 108.

guessing at an error factor.. probably 50-200 cars.
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