how many produced??
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The only thing we really know is that 1,464 yellow cars were made, so that's your maximum.
All else being equal (and it rarely is) that would mean that about 285 were built with the 4+3 - but that's just a guess.
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Thank-you! It is the convertible, I also found out that out of the 1,464 that were yellow only 732 were pace cars still don.t know how rare the 4+3 is thanks again
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Someone asking a pie in the sky price for one?
They, "numbers wise" may be rare but not a 'big money' (highly sought after) collector car if thats why youre asking. its a C4
Maybe one day yrs down the road
They, "numbers wise" may be rare but not a 'big money' (highly sought after) collector car if thats why youre asking. its a C4
Maybe one day yrs down the road
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the one driven around the track by chuck yeager was a yellow convertible with an automatic I am just trying to find out how many yellow convertible pace cars there were with th 4+ 3 trans thanks
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GM didn't keep specific records of cars with individual options. Given that 10% of the convertible production run were yellow cars; manual trans went into about 20% of the entire production run, then one could guess that of the 732 yellow verts, maybe 130-150 of them got the 4+3.
But that's based only on calculations from the total production numbers. The actual number of 4+3 yellow 'verts can be anywhere from 1 to 731 (we know that Chuck Yeager drove an A4 car). If the Indy 500 had used number of yellow pace cars with the A4, that can offset any calculations.
All 86 verts came with the Pace Car decal set. The owners could decide if he wanted to apply them on the car.
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About all you can do is to try to average out the numbers based on the production number of 'verts (7,315), the number of all cars with the 4+3 (6.835), and the 732 yellow verts that were made that year. While the car that Chuck Yeager drove was an A4 car, it could be that the folks at Indy wanted A4-equipped cars to make them easier to drive for the officials and the pace car drivers.
GM didn't keep specific records of cars with individual options. Given that 10% of the convertible production run were yellow cars; manual trans went into about 20% of the entire production run, then one could guess that of the 732 yellow verts, maybe 130-150 of them got the 4+3.
But that's based only on calculations from the total production numbers. The actual number of 4+3 yellow 'verts can be anywhere from 1 to 731 (we know that Chuck Yeager drove an A4 car). If the Indy 500 had used number of yellow pace cars with the A4, that can offset any calculations.
All 86 verts came with the Pace Car decal set. The owners could decide if he wanted to apply them on the car.
GM didn't keep specific records of cars with individual options. Given that 10% of the convertible production run were yellow cars; manual trans went into about 20% of the entire production run, then one could guess that of the 732 yellow verts, maybe 130-150 of them got the 4+3.
But that's based only on calculations from the total production numbers. The actual number of 4+3 yellow 'verts can be anywhere from 1 to 731 (we know that Chuck Yeager drove an A4 car). If the Indy 500 had used number of yellow pace cars with the A4, that can offset any calculations.
All 86 verts came with the Pace Car decal set. The owners could decide if he wanted to apply them on the car.
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I am so glad I wandered down here and looked at this. I bought one of the yellow festival cars back in 1994. Mine was owned by the IMS attorney and had spent its' life in Florida. It was a really cool car. I did find out a couple of things while I had it. The yellow paint was photosynthetic. If you laid a leaf on it out in the sun for a few minutes and pulled it off, the paint darkened under the leaf. If you washed it in the sunlight you could see the beads of water for a few minutes after you dried it off. All the cars had the decals installed at National Car Leasing out on West Washington Street here in Indy. I have a couple of pics of all the festival cars sitting in the parking lot. I am sure there is a lot of info available. I am hunting for the pictures. The guy out at National Car Leasing gave me a little box that had the stickers in it and the applicator and the instructions. He had the window stickers off of one of them and one off of a 1995 Pace Car. I have them someplace. All interesting stuff. Ken
