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After seeing all these neat project threads getting refreshed I got to wondering who drove the rarest car on AI. Any sort of classification you want, even if your 05 Honda Civic is 1 of 2 in the baby piss yellow with dark purple and orange factory seat color combo. My claim to fame is I drive an 09 Cobalt of which there were only 100 made.  It makes me snicker just thinking that sentence. More realistically, it's 1 of 472 SS sedans (1 of 100 in the paint code). Which is something like 0.003% of all Cobalts made - making it amazingly difficult to get really routine parts sometimes, even from dealers. It's an ok car. I specifically bought it because it looked like a plain Cobalt and only found out it was rare right before I bought it.If I had to guess, perhaps I have the newest and rarest car here. But I'm probably wrong. The first time I heard how few were made I thought "wow, this is like having a rare toaster" Who has something weird?
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May 9, 2014 15:07
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My 97 Miata is a Canadian model, which makes it 1 of between 520ish and 580ish ever made regardless of colour or trim package. I'm sure there's fewer survivors than that out here. Guaranteed someone has something rarer - it's actually annoying that the car is so rare because I wanted a wider corpus of cars to pick from when shopping.
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May 9, 2014 16:12
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Are you counting swaps as separate models, or just factory rarity? Because I'm pretty sure my beat-rear end Sonoma is a 1/1 with this particular collection of over a decade of random junkyard parts grafted on.
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May 9, 2014 16:16
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Is this only currently owned or previously owned as well?
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May 9, 2014 16:23
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My Dad's 1935 Wolseley Hornet Special is one of something like 135 built (1935 is different to the previous years, having the 1604cc engine), and there are only a couple of them still around. There are less than 60 cars of all variants left. His Austin Seven is quite well-represented, about 2,500 siblings. His Thwaites dumper truck, however, is the only one of that particulat model we've ever seen, and one of maybe three from that family. There are about 500 original Panda 4x4s left, and I own two of them. The Cappuccino is one of about 700 in the UK, but mine's a genuine UK car, and a lot are imports (1000 were officially sold here two decades ago). My 325i Touring has something like 300-400 equivalents. The Landie is actually quite a lot rarer than I thought, looks like there are only 3,000 4-cylinder LWBs around. That's interesting.
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May 9, 2014 17:08
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If we're constraining this with 'drive' you eliminate quite a few projects. The Bricklin is pretty rare...
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May 9, 2014 18:00
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Your mother.
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May 9, 2014 18:10
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Out of my lot I'm going to guess than the Daihatsu Charmant 1.3 LE is the rarest, there's only about 5-6 Charmants of any description left in the UK and I'd guess less than a thousand worldwide (mostly developing countries). They were pretty rot-prone and worthless when they were nearly new, non-mechanical parts are near-impossible to find (even critical things like light units), they didn't sell in that many places and much of the remaining ones are likely to just end up as cheap drift cars which ultimately end up crashed. I'm not a drifter though, just somebody who appreciates plastic woodgrain and mediocre ride quality.
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May 9, 2014 18:57
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Paging the guy with the RS2, RS2 guy to rare AI car thread.
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May 9, 2014 19:03
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Can we add a rule to this? No car that's worth less than 10k.
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May 9, 2014 19:04
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revmoo posted:Can we add a rule to this? No car that's worth less than 10k. How do you quantify that? I bought my car for under 10k but running condition are generally worth more.
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May 9, 2014 19:11
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A Melted Tarp posted:Your mother. not that rare  no rules here
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May 9, 2014 19:13
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My mom has a 70's Mercedes predecessor to the sprinter van. Super common in Europe, but not in the states. I guess a company imported them back in the 70's and converted them to RV's, and my grandfather bought one which my mom got after he passed. I want to say there is something like 5 of them known to exist in the US anymore. And its bright orange. I have my broken st165 celica alltrac, which only had a thousand or so imported to the US.
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May 9, 2014 19:36
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Negromancer posted:I have my broken st165 celica alltrac, which only had a thousand or so imported to the US. The st165 is pretty rare these days but there were certainly more than a thousand sold in the US. Add a zero and you'll be in the ballpark.
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May 9, 2014 19:59
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Terrible Robot posted:The st165 is pretty rare these days but there were certainly more than a thousand sold in the US. Add a zero and you'll be in the ballpark. wow. I went to look those numbers up for the ST185 and found out that at one time I owned one of the ~85 1993 ST185s sold in the US. Transmission went and I didn't have the interest/money to fix it. I always felt a little bad about that.
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May 9, 2014 20:14
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There are only around 20 trucks identical to mine in my city. Does that count?
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May 9, 2014 20:17
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Terrible Robot posted:The st165 is pretty rare these days but there were certainly more than a thousand sold in the US. Add a zero and you'll be in the ballpark. You are saying over 10,000 st165 alltracs? From this page they only made 26,500 of them total from 86-89, and they were only sold in the US in 88 and 89. They also list that there were only 2,500 st185 alltracs imported to the US out of 26,000 total built. Either way, don't really care that much. 10,000 just seems way high seeing as how few there are around now.
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May 9, 2014 20:18
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There were only 235 Saabarus made with the 2.5 turbo and 5MT; about half of those are estimated totaled.
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May 9, 2014 20:19
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Negromancer posted:My mom has a 70's Mercedes predecessor to the sprinter van. Super common in Europe, but not in the states. I guess a company imported them back in the 70's and converted them to RV's, and my grandfather bought one which my mom got after he passed. I want to say there is something like 5 of them known to exist in the US anymore. And its bright orange. I have 2 broken St165 All Tracs.... I also have a super clean 89 NA Hardtop MR2.
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May 9, 2014 20:19
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revmoo posted:Can we add a rule to this? No car that's worth less than 10k. Are we talking now or (inflation-adjusted) original purchase price?
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May 9, 2014 20:49
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Current value, just so we don't have a hundred ppl in here clamoring about how rare their 93 Tercel is because it has the blue cloth WITH sunroof combination which they only made 3 of. Really for that matter, I'd say option/color combinations don't count either, unless it's some legendary combination.
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May 9, 2014 21:29
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Terrible Robot posted:The st165 is pretty rare these days but there were certainly more than a thousand sold in the US. Add a zero and you'll be in the ballpark. The important word you missed in his post is alltrac. There's tons of the FWD ones around, but the alltracs are considerably rarer.
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May 9, 2014 21:34
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revmoo posted:Current value, just so we don't have a hundred ppl in here clamoring about how rare their 93 Tercel is because it has the blue cloth WITH sunroof combination which they only made 3 of. But that's fun. I mean the dudes cobalt is super rareish and fun to think about. Dont be a prissy baby pants. 
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May 9, 2014 21:36
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I don't give a poo poo if your car is rare because it has pink polka-dot seats and is the only one out of 78.5 billion Toyota FrigidAire GTIs built...it isn't rare. If we're talking about rarity, I say we limit it to "how many did the factory build" and that's it.
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May 9, 2014 21:41
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Negromancer posted:You are saying over 10,000 st165 alltracs? From this page they only made 26,500 of them total from 86-89, and they were only sold in the US in 88 and 89. They also list that there were only 2,500 st185 alltracs imported to the US out of 26,000 total built. I hadn't seen those numbers and was basing it off of the ~30k produced figure that I'd come across years ago. I thought they would have imported a larger fraction to the NA market than they did. Rarest st165 ever is the IMSA GTO Champion special edition. I think only 75 or so made their way to the US. HotCanadianChick posted:The important word you missed in his post is alltrac. There's tons of the FWD ones around, but the alltracs are considerably rarer. Yeah, no, I didn't miss that. I own a couple of the FWD (st162) models, the All-Trac is my Grail. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 22:07 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 21:49
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Pretty sure someone here owned a Noble at some point, and then sold it, but for what I cannot recall.
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May 9, 2014 21:50
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Alighieri posted:Pretty sure someone here owned a Noble at some point, and then sold it, but for what I cannot recall. Comrade Flynn, IIRC, and yes that is probably the rarest car anyone has ever owned in AI.
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May 9, 2014 21:53
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3032817&userid=37583#post406016963 sure wish search worked He sold it and got a Datsun GTR
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May 9, 2014 22:00
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MrChips posted:Comrade Flynn, IIRC, and yes that is probably the rarest car anyone has ever owned in AI. I do believe the replacement is a GT-  .I own nothing of any sort of rarity. Sure, '67-'72 trucks are only going to become fewer and fewer as the ravages of time take them out, but I'm sure that rate has slowed greatly since now most of them are in the hands of enthusiasts. I do still see the occasional '67-'72 still actively being used as a work truck, though! Hell, when I was in high school there were four other people there who had 'em. '98 Ranger and '13 CR-V? Literally millions of each when you treat them as generations, and there's nothing special option-wise about either. Hell, it's impossible to order anything special on the CR-V. You pick 2WD or AWD, LX, EX, or EX with leather, pick a paint and interior color, and if you got the EX with leather you have some choice on the infotainment. Otherwise, my white 2WD LX is just like every other white 2WD LX. The '73 Opel GT is probably the closest thing to a rare vehicle that I've owned (and even then, it was really my wife's) but that is far more due to the fact that they rust if you look at them funny and were expensive to repair in a crash, so very few are actually roadworthy.
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May 9, 2014 22:01
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Terrible Robot posted:The st165 is pretty rare these days but there were certainly more than a thousand sold in the US. Add a zero and you'll be in the ballpark. HotCanadianChick posted:The important word you missed in his post is alltrac. There's tons of the FWD ones around, but the alltracs are considerably rarer. That said, I'm not sure how many were actually sold here, but it wasn't a great deal. I'd guess the original poster was closer than TR.
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May 9, 2014 22:09
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There were 2858 Mcoupes made over 5 years for North America so that is vaguely rare. I think there were under 2000 Lotus Eclats built but I sold that a while back. Also had a Fiat x1/9 with a Yamaha V4 motorcycle engine in it, I hope to god only one of those exists.
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May 9, 2014 22:12
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revmoo posted:Can we add a rule to this? No car that's worth less than 10k. *checks bluebook*  I'm out. fwiw: one of 4 left in North america. E: discovery: not rare. however. 97MY, non AEL system. 5 speed trans, SE7 package, every additional factory addon, base wheels, Rioja red mica paint. cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 22:16 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 22:14
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Krakkles posted:I'm not sure if it's just one or both of you missing this, but ST165 is the All-Trac (which is rare), ST16(0/1/2/3) are the non-All-Trac, there were a billion of them, versions. Nobody has confused the st165 for the FWD models in this thread, I have no idea where everybody keeps getting that from. Only 1000 All-Tracs sold (88-89) still seems really low to me, but I do admit that 10k is also way too high of a guess.
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May 9, 2014 22:14
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Bibendum posted:There were 2858 Mcoupes made over 5 years for North America so that is vaguely rare. How was the Lotus Eclat? Someone has one a couple blocks over from where I live as a winter beater (when it's nice out they have a `79 Esprit out)
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May 9, 2014 22:17
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My Ram Daytona is 1 of 11,000ish Daytona's made, but 1 of 955 in 2WD, RC, Go ManGo! form. Toss in the factory random Trac-Loc rear and I think some of the guys on another site and myself figured it's 1 of less than 100.
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May 9, 2014 22:19
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Ignoarints posted:After seeing all these neat project threads getting refreshed I got to wondering who drove the rarest car on AI. Any sort of classification you want, even if your 05 Honda Civic is 1 of 2 in the baby piss yellow with dark purple and orange factory seat color combo. SS Sedans are great sleeper cars. Mine SS has the high rise and sticks out like a sore thumb.
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May 9, 2014 22:19
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My uncle has a 1952 Woodhill Wildfire, I believe it's 148 of 300 made and less then 50 surviving. My dad has a 1948 Desoto Custom Convertible "demo" car that there were only a few made (no idea on figure here.) My Black 93 Rx-7 is the 156 out of 350 that model year in the USA. Honestly, the E-type Jag on here has all of ours beat, except the Wildfire. That thing's incredibly rare.
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May 9, 2014 22:28
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Terrible Robot posted:I hadn't seen those numbers and was basing it off of the ~30k produced figure that I'd come across years ago. I thought they would have imported a larger fraction to the NA market than they did. Eric from the all trac forums has one. His is the one with the st205 hood grafted to the frame of the hood for his st165. Nice car. The only difference is stickers. Seriously stickers.
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May 9, 2014 22:32
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There were 2,854 Bricklins built and around 1,100 or so left. 780 of those were built in '74, which is the year I own. For what it's worth. I assume this thread is talking about AI posters as opposed to AI poster's parent's uncle's friend's former college roommate. BoostCreep fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 9, 2014 |
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May 9, 2014 22:35
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Super Aggro Crag posted:SS Sedans are great sleeper cars. Mine SS has the high rise and sticks out like a sore thumb. Yeah I got pulled over a lot in my STi in the past. I wanted the polar opposite of that in looks, but within a limited budget this time around. And there she was - a silver Cobalt with a hidden turbo and pretty great (for fwd) suspension all factory. Easily my least favorite car color in one of the most boring looking car bodies on the market. No SS tail lights, wing, etc. Pretty fast though, I was pretty shocked that it was (barely) a 13 second card from the factory, and an additional 50hp was a few bolt ons away. But it is what it is - a souped up cobalt. Despite the fact there were only 472 ever made, I saw 5 others within 2 months in my city alone.
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