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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 02:52 PM
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If anyone has the corvette black book can you tell me how many white vette's where made with 2 tops in 1989? opitons: A/C, two black leather power sports seats, ZF trans, radiator fan, illuminated driver vanity mirror, engine oil cooler, engine block heater, selective electronic ride & handling, bose stereo.
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I've got the book. It doesn't go into that much detail. The closest you would get would be how many white cars made. It may tell you the price of the two top option, but I don't think it would say how many were ordered that way, and even then, you wouldn't have the breakdown by color. I don't have the book in front of me at the moment but I'm pretty sure I'm right on this. Anyone care to add to that, or correct me?
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by rube1975
If anyone has the corvette black book can you tell me how many white vette's where made with 2 tops in 1989? opitons: A/C, two black leather power sports seats, ZF trans, radiator fan, illuminated driver vanity mirror, engine oil cooler, engine block heater, selective electronic ride & handling, bose stereo.
In 89...

white...5,426
dual removable panels....5,274
sport seats....1,777
Power drivers seat....25,606
Power pass seat...20,578
Electronic A/C...24,675
Black sport leather seats....852
6 speed trans.....4,113
Engien block heater....2,182
Engine oil cooler....20,162
Selective ride control....1,573
Illuminated drivers vanity mirror....17,414
Bose....24,145

These are just the numbers I can remember off the top of my head. You do the math, LOL. Doesn't look rare though.

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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 05:07 PM
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You forgot to ask about the Z51.
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Z-07 freak
You forgot to ask about the Z51.

Z51 is Fun!
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 09:42 PM
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The Black Book won't have that detail, the NCM might be able to tell you.
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 09:53 PM
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If you want to know how many 89's were made EXACTLY like yours, I will take a guess. Somewhere around 400 +/- a 100.
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If those black leather sport seats are original that car is one of 28 or less - sport seats were generally limited to coupes with the Z51 suspension, but exceptions were made ...
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I checked a couple of years ago with the NCM. They have all (or almost all) of the C4 build sheets, courtesy of GM, but it would take a lot of data entry into a computer before they could tell you how many of what color with which options were built. Until there are economical, very accurate optical character readers available, there's no profit potential in mining the data so it won't happen for a while. There were 358,180 C4s built.
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Originally Posted by tonymax2
I checked a couple of years ago with the NCM. They have all (or almost all) of the C4 build sheets, courtesy of GM, but it would take a lot of data entry into a computer before they could tell you how many of what color with which options were built. Until there are economical, very accurate optical character readers available, there's no profit potential in mining the data so it won't happen for a while. There were 358,180 C4s built.
Which is kind of pathetic, considering (for example) what you can get from the PHS ...
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