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# built like mine (1/9)
7/4/11 3:34pm

Arnie Ness
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Seattle, WA - USA

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1972 Coupe

Joined: 6/12/2011
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How do I find out how many 1972's were built with the same colors, accessories, etc. as mine? I bought mine new, & it was born June 7, 1972.

Arnie Ness

Seattle

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# built like mine (2/9)
7/4/11 7:56pm

Jaws79

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Sykesville, MD - USA

Vette(s):
1979 Corvette Coupe Corvette Light Blue Midnight Blue interior Mirrored Glass T-tops

Joined: 4/27/2008
Posts: 4238

That's really cool that you are the original owner. Not many people with the older cars can say that. Mine's a '79 and I'm the 4th owner!

Barry

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# built like mine (3/9)
7/4/11 8:23pm

VetteCountry

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Belvidere, IL - USA

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1977 Black T-Top ZZ4 5Sp 16in Wheels

Joined: 10/24/2004
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Hi Arnie, try the Corvette Black Book. It shows 20,496 coups.

Dick

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# built like mine (4/9)
7/4/11 8:32pm

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Duncanville, TX - USA

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#1-1974 L-48 4spd Cp Med Red Metallic/Black deluxe int w/AC/tilt/tele./p/w-p/b/ Am-Fm/map light National/Regional/Chapter NCRS "Top Flight" #2-1985 Bright Red/Carmine Cp.L-98/auto Member: NCRS, NCRS Texas, Corvette Legends of Texas

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The best you can hope for is to narrow down the possibilities....GM did not keep records like that,a s they do now. It's really just a guess, and doing the numbers, you could get close.

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# built like mine (5/9)
7/5/11 10:52am

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Frederick, MD - USA

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1969 convertible L71 427/435 4-speed black interior

Joined: 9/8/2003
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I agree with Joel...no such data base exists to anyone's knowledge. The best you can do is get the numbers from the Corvette Black Book and work the percentages. That's the SWAG method...Scientific Wild-A$$ed Guess...that's the closest you'll get.

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# built like mine (6/9)
7/5/11 2:21pm

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Yeah...they never intended to keep up with how many had this or that particular combination. We can determine how many were painted this or that color for most years(but not all), and how many had this or that interior color, base/optional engines, trans, etc. Then it's just a matter of crunching numbers to get a semi-round about kinda close idea of how many may have had this exact combo.
Once Bowling Green started building the C4 cars, record keeping got much better.

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# built like mine (7/9)
7/5/11 5:08pm

Arnie Ness
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Seattle, WA - USA

Vette(s):
1972 Coupe

Joined: 6/12/2011
Posts: 2

Thanks, Dick, Joel & Adam, I just ordered one!

Arnie

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# built like mine (8/9)
7/7/11 11:11pm

TargaBlue72

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Lodi, WI - USA

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1972 Targa Blue, T-Top, Saddle leather, 350 auto,numbers match, all original except '69 factory side exhaust. Previously owned: 1969 427, 390hp, 4sp, Riverside Gold coupe, factory side exhaust

Joined: 9/25/2007
Posts: 340

Hey Arnie, Welcome to the forum. Smile

Glad to have another 72 Coupe on board. Thumbs Up

Congratulations for "hanging on" to her for almost 40 years.

I bought my 72 in 73. I'm the second owner, I think.

Dean

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# built like mine (9/9)
7/8/11 10:13pm

tb2k82ce

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Lemon Grove, CA - USA

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1982 C3 Collectors Edition 44000 miles, sat in the sun most of its life, My wife purchased it for me for Father's Day in 2007 from her girlfriend that had it for 19 years. It is on the road again. I'm retired but it is now my daily driver.

Joined: 10/17/2007
Posts: 2041

Arnie

Join up and post a picture. As you can see by the response you received it is an active site with lots of knowledge. On long weekends it does get a little slow on the site. Seem we have to many people that want to have fun. LOL Thumbs Up

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