There were, I believe 6,759 made originally. Does anyone know how many still exist/registered or how to find that out?

 

There once was an online Registry but I think it has died. I visited it for a while, but then folks seemed to quit posting.

 

Is the CrossFire "Vault" forum still around. I cannot find it anymore. thank you

 

There seems to be quite a few around, 6 or 7 in my immediate area that I have seen and when I look at online sales there are often a good number in a limited area, it surprises me. I doubt there is any official count anywhere, nobody has asked me if I have one...and I don't think that states MV dept would share that kind of info..

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Thank you all for your input. If you learn of a source plz let me know. I live near Syracuse and have only seen one other in the last 15 years. I understand that there wasn't even one at The Nationals in Syracuse this summer and that is a very big and well attended car show. I may enter my car in it next year. I entered my car in one show last year against 500 plus cars and it one Most Original. A top prize. Many years ago I went to Corvettes at Carlisle. There was a Corvette Collector Club there. Do any of you know if that is still around and how to contact them?

 

You might contact the Corvette museum or the national directory. If nothing, you could be the first to figure out how many. Maybe put in the not-so-hard work. Contact every state, with a note what to look for (in the Vin), and find the person to have them do a query.

Assume a certain percentage for unlicensed CE's (being restored or just not being driven). There are a lot of people who have corvettes and other classic cars in a garage which don't have a license plate on them. Or have a long-expired plate. For example I have winter and summer vehicles (think snow plow truck/s). I sometimes transfer a plate in the summer (from a winter vehicle) when I want to drive a classic car or a certain other vehicle. Some years I don't drive said classic car at all, and don't bother to switch the plate over. I know several people who do something like this. It doesn't cost any money (here) to transfer a plate I already own online. And it's instant. Other than taking 10 min, it's cheaper than, say, buying a thousand dollars worth of classic car plates (which take a while to get). Therefore these vehicles wouldn't be captured in a listing of registered vehicles. Then you have some which are an ongoing long-term restoration. I don't know what percentage these would be. I have a feeling it might be higher than we think. I know a guy who has several unlicensed classics. So the DMV should look at 'titled' vehicles, not registered vehicles.

Or ...there is ..or was, a metric once I read which showed a graph of car numbers depreciating (in terms of numbers which exist)...over time. But that didnt go out 50 years...lol. But there might be a metric out there worked out by the Camaro/Tras Am, Mustang or other CC community which you could use to *estimate* the numbers of CE's still on the road. That would be a another way to estimate. I would estimate there are a lot of CE's still alive b/c I seem to see one or even two at car corrals and car shows...if I see a C3 at all. Last of the breed, and a highly optioned-out car. Just a guess though.

 

I don't know the number but there are probably quite a few of those left still. I've been thinking of selling my collectors edition. It only has 15k miles on it so I figured that would be something special. I did a search and found several for sale across the country, some with even less miles than mine! This forum even has two for sale right now.

The reality is that it would probably be easier to replace my 1982 Corvette Collector Edition than my 2024 Camaro Collector Edition right now!

 

No, I was the admin there and it has long gone to the wayside. It was a shame, since that had a HUGE amount of information on there about CFI and a lot of good people.

 

Wow. That's really sad. Thank you for your reply!

 

I just did a fast used car search, there are 8, maybe 9 for sale within 80 miles of me, just on facebook, they range in price 12-18K, the 18K one looked pretty good. The prices have been dropping and especially on 82s but there seems to be many CEs around

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2007 Corvettes at Carlisle.

 

Too many !!

 

A wild guess is that there are probably 90-95% of them still existing. By the later '70s, collecting became a focus of a sizable segment of Corvette owners. The '78 anniversary and pace cars officially acknowledged the collecting trend by GM. The '82 was even named a Collector Edition, so most of these cars were protected by owners as being something looking to future ownership and desirability.

 

My car was definitely not protected. Burned off paint, worn out seats and steering wheel leather, broken motor mounts, bent valves, trashed torque converter, warped hatch hinges, flaking decals, etc. Yeah, well preserved. I fixed most of it and for some reason still have it. Anybody interested?

 

So I'm over here on the other side of the planet, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Just in my little car club, and not a Corvette club, just a mixed car type club. We have 3 82 CE's. In south-east Queensland, I know of one that's been converted to a convertible. And of course the 3 in my little club up Sunshine Coast way, and a couple others Brisbane and Gold Coast. That makes 6 in my general neighbourhood. That I'm aware of, not that I go looking for them. So, are 82 CE's rare? I'm not thinking so.
And you guys in the states can try to count them. But they are all over the world. Might be easier to try to count the ones that got totalled.

 

25,407 Corvettes were built for 1982, & 6,759 of themCollector Editions. Nearly 1/3 of all 82's built were "COLLECTOR EDITIONS" I'm a real big fan of that car & it's great looks, and sexy curves, but as far as a real "COLLECTOR" goes I don't see that happening in my lifetime or anytime soon thereafter. Mass produced, very cool, though I see plenty on the road & a good amount at all the shows I attend, not really that desirable..................

 

Are you very far from Brisbane where you live? There is a drag strip there that a friend of mine races at with his 84 CFI. He has a very good rep there with his 84 running 12.20 in the 1/4. He is running my manifold and dropped his ET by three tenths with just my manifold from using the XRam that everyone back in the day said was great. I just laughed and said, what does that say about my manifold then? Just curious if you might know him. His name is Ben. Sorry about the hijack from OP.

 

Sunshine Coast is just a hop north of Brisbane. The track you refer to, Willowbank?? A ways past Ipswich. I generally go to lakeside raceway. Nothing in Brissy that I'm aware of. Anyway, yes, all south-east Queensland.
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I went to a Cars and Coffee event this morning in Cooroy Queensland. Find that on a map. And look what parks next to my Red Mistress.

 

hello looking for glass hinges and glass hardware

 

4739 of them are left. Prove me wrong....

(Actually, there is NO way of knowing how many "real" vehicle of that type are still around.