Determining how many were produced
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Determining how many were produced
I've seen the lists that tell how many by year of each color and the various options that were produced but is there any way of figuring out how many match what yours originally came with? I was wondering if anyone has gone to the museum and asked to take a look at their database and be able to go thru the various sheets to narrow down by specific option combos. I have an 01 Blue vert (about 1K sold) but mine came with the mag wheel option (about 530 some sold in 01) - I'l love to go thru the list of those 500+ and see how many were on blue vert's with the Z51 suspension option. Think they would let me look over those 500 some sheets? Any other suggestions?
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To the best of my knowledge, GM did not keep specific option/color combination statistics for the C5. There are some web sites out there that give a number like you are looking for, but not sure just how accurate those numbers are. Here's one:
• Rarity of Car by RPO: www.compnine.com/
• Rarity of Car by RPO: www.compnine.com/
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The Corvette Black Book has, in the front, and explanation of the generally accepted way to use extrapolation of known production numbers to estimate unknown ones. Not the same as getting "real" production numbers, but probably as close as you are going to get. 
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Since the window stickers and build sheets for these vehicles are available, the information you seek is out there. If a person could get access to these and cross reference and tabulate, it could be obtained. Such an endeavor would be a herculean effort at the very least. Gaining access would probably be even more difficult. (Maybe NCM could get some volunteer(s) to compile this information and sell it for a nominal fee to interested parties?)
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I've seen the lists that tell how many by year of each color and the various options that were produced but is there any way of figuring out how many match what yours originally came with? I was wondering if anyone has gone to the museum and asked to take a look at their database and be able to go thru the various sheets to narrow down by specific option combos. I have an 01 Blue vert (about 1K sold) but mine came with the mag wheel option (about 530 some sold in 01) - I'l love to go thru the list of those 500+ and see how many were on blue vert's with the Z51 suspension option. Think they would let me look over those 500 some sheets? Any other suggestions?
http://www.vettefacts.com/C5/2001.aspx
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Since the window stickers and build sheets for these vehicles are available, the information you seek is out there. If a person could get access to these and cross reference and tabulate, it could be obtained. Such an endeavor would be a herculean effort at the very least. Gaining access would probably be even more difficult. (Maybe NCM could get some volunteer(s) to compile this information and sell it for a nominal fee to interested parties?)
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Early in my ownership I was intrigued by the possible rarity of my car since it was an FRC and fairly highly optioned (no n73’s
) then I figure out that the really rare frc’s are (besides color) are the really low option examples. At any rate what would intrigue me now is, How many are left?
As far as I know there is no data base to search to see how many 99 FRC cars are still on the road but at some point that will become an interest issue for numerous reasons and even more so for the 2000 model FRC cars.
) then I figure out that the really rare frc’s are (besides color) are the really low option examples. At any rate what would intrigue me now is, How many are left? As far as I know there is no data base to search to see how many 99 FRC cars are still on the road but at some point that will become an interest issue for numerous reasons and even more so for the 2000 model FRC cars.
