Frustration with the Museum
03-11-2019, 05:27 PM
#21
Forget the letter. I just hope you saved the white carrier cover it was delivered in.
03-11-2019, 05:29 PM
#22
Safety Car
My point exactly. We know this would be super rare......would fetch anymore at auction? You be the judge.
03-11-2019, 05:30 PM
#23
Team Owner
I got a letter telling me when my first payment was due. lol..
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03-11-2019, 05:30 PM
#24
Le Mans Master
$35... hmmmm.... with my military discount, my cash discount, and my membership discount, I can buy a bottle of Normandin-Mercier VSOP Cognac. 
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03-11-2019, 05:44 PM
#25
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Here are the final production numbers with all the different options. Make up your own letter the way you want it and use your computer to make up a fancy letter head. https://www.corvettemuseum.org/wp-co...ar-End-HWC.pdf
03-11-2019, 08:00 PM
#26
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As stated, the factory lost the records, not the Museum... and, why in the world would the Museum send anyone a "sample lettter" to be used... who knows how?
Ask someone here send you a copy of their letter.
Ask someone here send you a copy of their letter.
03-11-2019, 08:14 PM
#27
Race Director
Unless you Corvette is more than 45 years old, rarity means very little.
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03-11-2019, 09:11 PM
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Seriously? Do you have any idea at all what you are asking for here? What your list represents is a massive database of every option contained in separate data elements of a massive database for hundreds of thousands of cars subject to a query search that could pull all these options out in a cross-correlated manner to give you your list. To expect the museum to maintain such a massive database is unreasonable. Undoubtedly GM has such a database, but for them to grant access for that data to the museum is highly unlikely. The irony here is that GM publishes the raw data every year. It's not cross-correlated to your specific car, which is the hard part, but the information is there for you to do it yourself. This is published every year for the BASH and has always been available on the NCM web site, though I remember it as being kind of buried. It is also inevitably published on this very forum. So all you need to do is wait for the 2018 numbers to be published. You could easily "prove" you had a unique car by implementing a few equations.
Care to do the math?
Care to do the math?
03-11-2019, 10:12 PM
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03-12-2019, 08:10 AM
#32
Le Mans Master
The concept of "rare" is only relevant is the "rare" is desirable.
03-12-2019, 09:01 AM
#34
Burning Brakes
Something that struck me in the stats is that there were only 88 NCM deliveries in 2018. Granted it was a short production year, but I would have expected the number to be much higher.
03-12-2019, 11:55 AM
#35
Team Owner
Rare can also mean a mistake that makes things worse from a valuation standpoint. I used to know a guy that had a rare numbers matching 57 fuelie that wasn't worth as much as other 57 fuelies despite being in excellent shape. He had everything except it had been ordered with the standard 3 speed manual transmission instead of the optional 4 speed. A very rare car and totally uninteresting to any collector.
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Of course, many of the 3 speed cars were converted to 4 speed cars once the 4 speed was available over the parts counter at the local Chevy dealer. That alone would make the 3 speed fuelie rarer because only a few originally built 3 speed 57's would have the ORIGINAL 3 speed transmissions still in the car in 2019.
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03-12-2019, 12:02 PM
#36
Burning Brakes
With the million different ways to configure a Chevy Silverado it's very likely possible to own a 1 of 1, big freakin' deal 
03-12-2019, 12:13 PM
#37
Team Owner
I suspect that my C6 Z06, Cyber Gray, 2LZ, black interior, NAV, chrome spiders is one of thousands of identical C6 Z06's built just like mine. It may not be "rare" but a lot of people sure liked that combination of options/colors, so I imagine that there would be plenty of people that would want my car if I decided to sell it. Probably more potential buyers than for a car with some oddball combination of options/colors that would make it one of one.
03-12-2019, 12:18 PM
#38
On the other hand, many owners certainly approach their cars as if the one they own is rare - posting multiple pictures, etc. Has no one else noticed the cars are all the same but for incidentals such as color? 
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03-12-2019, 12:38 PM
#39
Burning Brakes
Kind of hard to believe in this day and age this data could be lost. Off site back up of corporate info has been SOP forever. Sounds fishy to me.
03-12-2019, 01:18 PM
#40
Race Director
I wonder how many Z06 buyers purchase the 'build your own engine" option?