New Guy Needs Help
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Heel & Toe
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New Guy Needs Help
Alright so when I started looking for a car I promised myself the I would not get caught up in the silly " my car is #x out of #xx. We'll I got my car two days ago and now I'm obsessed with figuring out how special 😍 it is. If my research is correct there were only 33 base coupes made in Inferno Orange. Mine is a 3LT manual. Can anyone tell me how many of those 33 are 3LT, manuals or tell me how to find out for myself. My wife already thinks 1 of 33 is cool and justifies me buying the 🚘 . I'd love to get that number lower.
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2024
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From: Cincinnati, Ohio
The definitive resource is The Corvette Black Book available from C&S Corvettes and elsewhere. It is hard to figure exactly but you can get close using total production for the year, the number for each option or package or color and a bit of math. I don't think there is a source that can just say your car is ## of #####. You *might* be able to contact somebody at the National Corvette Museum but I'm not sure they even have those numbers.
Racer
Joined: Feb 2004
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From: Metro Atlanta GA
If your Inferno Orange coupe is a 2013, then yes, you have one of 33 base coupes in that color made in 2013. See here. However, there were also 115 2012 and 135 2011 base coupes built. So you have one of 283 base coupes in Inferno Orange.
About 30% of C6s had a manual gearbox. And around 30% with the 3LT package. A reasonable guess is that you have 1 in 100 of orange base coupes (for all years) or 1 in 10 for 2013.
About 30% of C6s had a manual gearbox. And around 30% with the 3LT package. A reasonable guess is that you have 1 in 100 of orange base coupes (for all years) or 1 in 10 for 2013.
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Heel & Toe
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100% agree with you but I was looking for a 2013, international Orange, base coupe w/3lt, manual with no clue how unlikely it was i would find one. Now I know. So glad I bought when I did. Ill probably never see another one for sale.
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If you had this one, it would be the rarest of C6s. 1 of 1
https://www.corvetteactioncenter.com...torch_red.html
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Drifting
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Take a breath, brother! 
I like to say that I have a 1 of 1 . . . In my garage. 
Have faith that yours is such a low number build that you will probably never meet your doppelgänger on the road. 
I like to say that I have a 1 of 1 . . . In my garage. Have faith that yours is such a low number build that you will probably never meet your doppelgänger on the road.