OK. I know this is purely a speculative thing, but there hasn't been a post to this part of the forum for nearly a week now, and besides, I'm curious. I've got a '68 442 4-speed convertible, which was given to me by my best friend of all time. He bought it brand new at Dave Cross Motors in Lees Summit, MO, a KC suburb. If I remember correctly, there were about 5200+ 442 converts made in '68, but only 1518 of those convertibles were 4-speeds. Let's speculate on how many of those are still left, and how of those that are left are one-owner cars. Any comments will be welcome. Fire away.

 

Nice car.

Can't remember the last time I heard a Dave Cross advertisement. They used to be all over the press/commercials. I've lived near the KC area all my life.

As far as one owner cars, like yours, probably none. Were speculating right? 1968 was a long time ago .

Would love to hear what the other folks have to say about your car and its numbers.

 

Speculating is useless - JMHO.

 

not my rule of thumb but many reference the 10% rule of what still exists. But again this is what I have heard used as a measuring stick, sort of speak.

 

I agree that as far as facts go, speculation is just that, speculation. I'm just trying to gather opinions on this forum as to how many cars like this people think are left.

 

I'm not familiar with that standard. Does that mean according to that guideline that only 10% of the original production run are still in existence?

 

The "standard" is pure, um, speculation.

 

Yeah, good one.

 

I would speculate that there are now 7300 442 convertibles, 3200 w/ 4 speeds. 6200 are W30's and 5900 of those have the fender stripe.


I'm probably at least close & for the record I would be one of the Faux42 crowd if I had a 68 so I could enjoy the great looks of the car but build it the way I want to without messing up a real one.

 

Man, isn't that the truth; so many clones and tribute cars that the real ones sometimes get lost in the dust.

 

I think the 10% rule is you lose 10% per year...

 

If that is the rule, that went away a long time ago - more cars from that era are being saved than trashed.

 

Maybe...maybe not. My buddy just scored an amx from a friend after the car sat disassembled since 79ish if he hadn't bought it it may have ended up as junk or parts at an estate sale ...I've seen more than one save able car parted out to maybe save another or maybe just end up in another parts pile...as stated were all just speculating

 

So the AMX was saved? There ya go.

 

Lol maybe ...he's hitting it pretty hard right now, but a lot of times life gets in the way, the guy he got it from was saving it ~36 years ago and that almost worked!

 

Didn't say standard, it was shared w me as a reference that give or take 10 percent of the original production cars still in existence.