Hi All.
With much regret I had to cut up a 68 2 door hardtop to save my 68 Imperial
convertible.
And it is also one that is in the first made.
It was built on the 1,st day of production.
I hated to cut up the 2 door but There is no one that I could find making
body parts for these cars.
This my 1,st imperial and I like it the most from other cars that I have.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark McDonald" <tomswift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: IML: how many are left
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for that info. Kind of sad, to me, to think that %90 of the 68s
> are gone.
>
> I do think while those statistics may be true in general, some cars are
> exceptions. For instance, convertibles, and/or the first and last model
> of anything. I think people tend to preserve rarer bodystyles, or if
> they think the car will be more valuable later on. The reason I say
> this is, there seem to be an awful lot of '68 convertibles out there.
>
> Jim Gathmann wrote:
>
> > Actually, the '71 car would be about as rare (if not
> > more rare) due to the rate in which cars are
> > destroyed.
> >
> > Once I had stats on the % of cars which survive after
> > production. It basically came down to a small majority
> > of cars of a specific model (+/-65%) will be destroyed
> > within the first decade after production.
> >
> > By two decades, that number is up to +/- 80% destroyed
> > since production date (also- destroyed referes to
> > being crashed, sent to a junk yard, recycled, etc.).
> >
> > By three or more decades, about 90% of the cars made
> > since production date are gone. Fogret if those
> > numbers are right (going by memory- had it all nicely
> > done up on a poster once).
> >
> > So if you really think about it, your '83 is far more
> > common then the 1987 Reliant KPL21 sedan (2 door), as
> > only 200 of those were made originally! (as seen @
> > www.allpar.com).
>
>
>
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