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Old Jan 15, 2007 | 03:27 PM
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Where can I find information as to the quantity of cars built with specific features combined. Pace Car info.
I have "The corvette Black Book" which list's how many cars were built with the "L-82" and "M21", but how many were built with both?

It appears to be somewhere under 300 cars.
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Old Jan 15, 2007 | 05:21 PM
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It goes by percentages. You have to work out a formula to get a close number.
Do you have a rare 78 pace car, probably not. Actually my blue 78 L-48 was probably more rare. Now if you had a Pace car with brown interior, thats rare.
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Originally Posted by GFree
Where can I find information as to the quantity of cars built with specific features combined. Pace Car info.
I have "The corvette Black Book" which list's how many cars were built with the "L-82" and "M21", but how many were built with both?
It's not available and as Budman indicates, numbers are extrapolations. I know for a fact that GM Chevrolet did not provide these cross RPO analysis of data way into the 21st century.

Back then...no body cared about such data. Now that these cars are desirable...everyone whats to know how rare their model is.

Any number you come across is an extrapolation like 200 Pace cars have both L82 and M21. It's someones best guess that gets popularized.
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