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Re: how many are left?

To: "Eric Frisbee" <efris@home.com>
Subject: Re: how many are left?
From: "Graham Evans" <evansg@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:21:06 -0400
I remember someone requesting us to email our names and vehicle serial
numbers to them so they could compile such a list.

Anyone know what became of that effort?

Graham
1968 1600

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Frisbee <efris@home.com>
Cc: Andrew Murphy <solex67@hotmail.com>; <spl310@hotmail.com>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: how many are left?


> I have to agree.. 2500 seems to be a tad light.   WyCROC membership is
> about 45 cars right now, and I know of about 10 more for sale out here
> and at least 30 more roadsters we've heard about that aren't in the club
> yet.    I know that in Missouri/Kansas/Illinois there are a ton of
> roadsters as well, but they haven't formed a "club" yet (hint hint!)
>
> Maybe we should initiate a world-wide count of the remaining
> roadsters??
>
> Eric
> WyCROC
>
> Andrew Murphy wrote:
> >
> > List,
> >
> > This question gets asked a lot. I think that Rob's guess of 2500 may be
a
> > little light. I know there has to be at least 2-300 of these cars in
> > California alone. True, we probably have more of them due to our huge
> > population, but there are other metropolitan areas that are also well
> > represented. Case in point is the WyCROC crowd. They have quite a few
cars
> > and Eric Frisbee has confided in me that there are cars he knows about
in
> > Colorado where the owners either are not interested in joining or want
to
> > sell.
> >
> > I know of at least 3 cars here in SoCAL where the owners are NOT on the
> > list. But always remember that no matter how many of our cars are left,
they
> > are REALLY rare. Case in point: when I was pissing and moaning about my
67.5
> > 2000 not really being that rare as there were six of them at shasta
(more
> > than the 1500s that showed up), Sid Raper set me straight when he told
me
> > that the 64.5 Mustang is considered "rare" and they made about 50,000 of
> > those...
> >
> > So my guess would be closer to 5,000 worldwide. I don't think there is
any
> > way to know for sure.
> >
> > Andrew Murphy
> > SoCalROC
> > 2 roadsters
> >
> > >From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
> > >Reply-To: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
> > >To: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net,
> > >RoadsteRob@aol.com
> > >Subject: Re: Re[2]: how many are left?
> > >Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:55:10 EDT
> > >
> > >I have 3 that I will gladly part out to help the prices!
> > >
> > >Sid
> > >Forlorn roadster collection
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us
> > > >Reply-To: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us
> > > >To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net, RoadsteRob@aol.com
> > > >Subject: Re[2]: how many are left?
> > > >Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:38:05 -0700
> > > >
> > > >Or chopped up for the parts. Is it my imagination or are there a lot
of
> > > >parts getting traded recently? As more cars get restored, and more
> > > >junkers get parted out, the quality and prices go up!
> > > >
> > > >Fred
> > > >BADROC
> > > >3 1/2 roadsters
> > > >
> > > >______________________ Reply Separator _________________________
> > > > > Subject: Re: how many are left?
> > > > > Author:  RoadsteRob@aol.com at ~ctl-internet-po
> > > > > Date:    7/25/2000 5:32 PM
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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