I had written earlier that WyCROC has about 45 cars in it with 30 more
around that we know of, plus 10 or so for sale... back in 91, I had a
list of 61 roadsters that I had seen in the newpaper or in person from
Colorado... of those cars, I haven't seen one in WyCROC... so I know
there are a ton more roadsters in this area! It's amazing how they hide
out... sometimes you see them heading the other way on the road and they
mistake your frantic gesturing as an insane way of saying "cool
car"... or you be driving out with the club and have one pull in
behind you and they don't even turn around to see just why eleven
roadsters were driving around together!?!?!? I would have to say
there are probably about 200-300 roadsters out here in Colorado... I
can even make a somewhat educated guess and say there have to be about
200+ in Missouri.
I think if every club advised this list of their current memberships
and cars they have seen, but haven't gotten into the club, we'd get a
pretty close count. I don't think California has 90% of the running
roadsters at all... more like 70-80% might be more realistic. Also,
you can't take the current registries as gospel... a lot of people
don't know about them or haven't put their info on them for whatever
reasons...
So I'll start this show... there are about 85 roadsters I know of in
the Wyoming/Colorado area (including one member from New Mexico).
Eric
WyCROC
Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us wrote:
>
> Victor,
>
> If 2,000 to 3,000 are in California, they sure aren't in the northern half.
> They must all be hanging out in L.A. Not counting Mike Young who has his
> cars outside SF, there are probably less than 10 in San Francisco.
> Personally I've met only 7 owners in SF. In the SF Bay Area, BADROC has
> gotten interest from perhaps 30 roadster owners. A few of them have
> multiple cars, Mike Young probably has the most, so my guess is maybe 60 to
> 70 cars accounted for in the club. There are probably twice as many that we
> haven't heard from or those that aren't interested in us. So I'm guessing
> maybe 200 cars tops in the immediate SF Bay Area including runners and
> junk. The Modesto group has a lot of cars, Sacramento has a few, and Mike
> Kerr has a bunch. I can only guess at the numbers but it can't be much more
> than 200 cars. I'm guessing maybe 500 max in Northern California to include
> junk as well as runners.
>
> Problem is, all I can do is make wild guesses based on what we see. And
> from what I've seen, the majority of them out there don't run. I think a
> lot of those will end up getting crushed or chopped up. So I think 66 Mike
> has a better estimate.
>
> Mike has a good point about the vendors having more info on owners. Just
> how many owners are out there?
>
> Fred
> BADROC
> 3 good ones and a destroyer of 2 cars
>
> ________________________ Reply Separator ________________________
> Subject: RE: how many are left?
> Author: "Laury; Victor" <LauryV@MTA.NET>
> Date: 7/26/2000 3:59 PM
>
> Mike - If 2,000 to 3,000 WAS closer to the truth, then 90% of them are here
> in California! I'm backing the 10-15 grand estimate.
>
> Victor
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: datsunmike [mailto:datsunmike@nyc.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:19 PM
> To: Steve Harvey; RoadsteRob@aol.com
> Cc: mitch@ias.net; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: how many are left?
>
>
> Steve,
>
> I think that figure is way too optimistic. These cars are at least 30 YO and
> were cheap to buy and often poorly maintained and let's not forget that in
> many parts of the US they simply rusted away. I personally know of at least
> 20 that were crushed or parted out over the last 20 years and that doesn't
> include the 4 I parted out or had crushed.
>
> I do believe a figure of 2000-3000 is probably closer to reality, if that
> many. We don't know how many were destroyed in accidents, how many were
> crushed before computers and email brought us together or how many are
> rusted hulks sitting in someones garage/barn.
>
> Perhaps our vendors can shed some light on this as they have more contact
> with owners.
>
> FWIW,
>
> 66 Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Harvey <stevenh@execpc.com>
> To: <RoadsteRob@aol.com>
> Cc: <mitch@ias.net>; <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:09 PM
> Subject: Re: how many are left?
>
>
> > Hi List,
> > I'm guessing 15,324 worldwide. I need a sponsor to fund my worldwide quest
> to
> > count all of the roadster's in the world. Anyone?
> > Steve Harvey
> >
> > RoadsteRob@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I may be way off target but my guess is 2500 worldwide. However, as
> these
> > > cars become more collectable I'm sure more will be dragged out of barns
> etc.
> > > for restoration.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > > 2 1/2 Roadsters (1/1000th of all remaining cars?)
> >
> >
> >
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