Any "extinct" cars?

[ChrisBcritter]

Got one that may qualify - '35 and '36 Ford Victorias. According to a list published in Hot Rod's Complete Ford Book, 3rd Edition in 1973, there were 92 '35s and 143 '36s. Maybe some of the Model 40 '35s could have been late-production or leftover '34s, but 1936 is a bit late for that...?

Edited June 9, 2015 by ChrisBcritter

[stavanzer]

I have a friend who is a Lobbyist in Sacramento. He works for the Various Car Clubs and councils in SoCal to try to keep the C.A.R.B. at bay.

He tells me the California DMV show's more 1932 Fords registered in CA, than Henry built.

While this may be an exaggeration, I have no doubt that across the U.S. there are now far more '32 Fords in existence, than were ever built.

As far as None Left cars, there is no real way of quantifying how many car disappeared. I do know that the last un-restored Stutz Bearcat changed hands just after WW2. So what we have now, are all that will ever be left, as even the three Barris reproductions, have achieved "Un-obtianium". status.

[1972coronet]

I have a friend who is a Lobbyist in Sacramento. He works for the Various Car Clubs and councils in SoCal to try to keep the C.A.R.B. at bay.

He tells me the California DMV show's more 1932 Fords registered in CA, than Henry built.

While this may be an exaggeration, I have no doubt that across the U.S. there are now far more '32 Fords in existence, than were ever built.

Firstly, please send a resounding Thank You from me your lobbiest friend !! C.A.R.B. is an outdated branch of government that needs to just...disappear.

In regards to the 1932 Ford deal ; that honour goes to the late Boyd Coddington and the "George Washington's Axe" philosophy ...

[Rob Hall]

Got one that may qualify - '35 and '36 Ford Victorias. According to a list published in Hot Rod's Complete Ford Book, 3rd Edition in 1973, there were 92 '35s and 143 '36s. Maybe some of the Model 40 '35s could have been late-production or leftover '34s, but 1936 is a bit late for that...?

Interesting..not even sure what something like that would look like...a 5 window coupe w/ a shorter roof than a Tudor, I guess...

[Harry Joy]

I can't remember the last time I saw a Mustang II, especially a coupe. In the 90s I was mocked at a Mustang fan show in Illinois for daring to ask why I didn't see one displayed. My fondness for the II is largely due to the fact that I drove one all over the country in the 80s, and always kept it in good shape. I know why people hate them. Don't have to explain it to me. But why should they have been wiped off the face of the planet? They didn't deserve that.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

In the next town over, there's a guy who has two Mustang II Fastbacks (Liftback? Hatchback? Whatever. ) and a guy up northern way has a brown Ghia coupè. I'm not ashamed to say the MII is my favorite Mustang.

[Harry P.]

I can't remember the last time I saw a Mustang II, especially a coupe. In the 90s I was mocked at a Mustang fan show in Illinois for daring to ask why I didn't see one displayed. My fondness for the II is largely due to the fact that I drove one all over the country in the 80s, and always kept it in good shape. I know why people hate them. Don't have to explain it to me. But why should they have been wiped off the face of the planet? They didn't deserve that.

They'll be big buck collectibles one day.

[Ace-Garageguy]

They'll be big buck collectibles one day.

Not if I buy one. Guaranteed to be worthless...until the year after I sell it, when the prices will skyrocket.

[Tom Geiger]

My wife had a '74 Mustang II V6 auto coupe when I met her. She bought it from a friend who married a military guy and moved away. It was a year old when she got it. I met her in 1978 and it had around 60,000 miles on it. Trouble free and drove nice. I drove it distances like from NJ to VA and back and thought it as a great little car. She got this bug that she needed a new car, so poor little Mustang got traded in on a '79 Capri RS V8, which turned out to be the car from hell. Someone who lived a few blocks away from my wife's family bought the Mustang from the dealer so we had to see it all the time... as the Capri was being nothing but trouble from the day it got home.

[Mark]

Got one that may qualify - '35 and '36 Ford Victorias. According to a list published in Hot Rod's Complete Ford Book, 3rd Edition in 1973, there were 92 '35s and 143 '36s. Maybe some of the Model 40 '35s could have been late-production or leftover '34s, but 1936 is a bit late for that...?

The Ford production figures are world-wide; wherever those Victorias were built, they were probably the '33-'34 style, just built in '35 and '36.

The current issue of Hemmings Classic Car mentions a change in AACA's rules regarding what constiutes a "classic" car. Previous rules included only cars produced between 1925 and 1948, bit now they are rolling that back to about 1915. The HCC article mentions one car from that period, an early-Twenties car called the Richelieu...and also mentions that none of them are known to still exist. So there's one...

[Mark]

I have a friend who is a Lobbyist in Sacramento. He works for the Various Car Clubs and councils in SoCal to try to keep the C.A.R.B. at bay.

He tells me the California DMV show's more 1932 Fords registered in CA, than Henry built.

While this may be an exaggeration, I have no doubt that across the U.S. there are now far more '32 Fords in existence, than were ever built.

I can believe that more of certain low-production body styles (like roadsters) now exist than were built originally.