how many are left?

[JoFotoz]

X2....

See, unless someone hands me life-changing money, I'm never going to sell so I won't have to deal with this. Like ever.

-V

....tru dat, wot he said.

jo

[Power Wagon]

If y'all do that I'll never be able to get one!! LOL

[Power Wagon]

And as much as I like them I wanna be able to get one!

[blacksambo]

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy at this stage in the game. Here's why (and I don't like these dynamics personally because a lot of good folks mean well), the lower the selling price the lower the eschelon or financial strata that get involved with a marque. This spells doom for the VX, as they can't really afford to maintain them, and at the same time seek to attempt great; too great of feats for a twenty year old design. The inevitable consequence is mechanical failures galore, and no money means to repair. The reamains are consigned to the bone yard. VX KAT has eighty five wrecks on her active list and counting. It's sad but true. I'll never forget when a now desceased friend of mine back in 1972 was offered a complete basket case Type 3 Bugatti for $3500 bucks, and he declined, that's a multi-million dollar car today. Life is strange and cruel, accept it.

[circmand]

that Obama allowed our VXs to be included in the cash for clunkers program. Several were consigned to never being restored because it was illegal and the engines were trashed so parts were not usable either

[evillecutter]

Any mathletes out there?

OK..its Aussie stats..but hey, should be close.

Attrition rate

The estimated proportion of motor vehicles taken off the register since the previous MVC (Motor Vehicles Constructed). The attrition rate is also referred to as the motor vehicle retirement or scrappage rate. The number of registration lapses is calculated by adding the total registrations at the earlier MVC to the number of new motor vehicle sales between the MVCs, and subtracting the total registrations at the later MVC. The attrition rate measures the number of registration lapses as a percentage of the total potential vehicle fleet, where the potential vehicle fleet is the number of registrations at the first MVC date plus the number of new motor vehicle sales between the two MVCs. To calculate the annualised attrition rate as a percentage apply the following formula:

Formula wont paste, but its here:-

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@....011&num=&view=

where T1 is the number of registrations at the first time point, N1 is the number of new sales between the first and second time points, T2 is the number of registrations at the second time point and M is the number of months between the two time points.


Have at it.....

Jo

you just completely blew my mind

[evillecutter]

The point you are all missing is the size of the market for what you've got to sell. Fixing the price is meaningless without seekers. Nobody knows what a VX is, therefore hardly anybody wants one, therefore the price is less than the $20K.

I've always said the VX needs a book written about it. Once that's done, more people will know it and want them, and viola the price will shoot up, naturally.

this is an excellent idea and a book i would buy

[blacksambo]

We can all write it together, and with electronic publishing, it won't cost us much to distribute. Every Kindle and Nook could access it, easy.

[Y33TREKker]

.......



......it seems I often fail to get your drift.


jo

FYI.....admitting it is the first step.

[blacksambo]

Play nice guys.

[rsteinmetz70112]

I did a similar exercise last year and came up with approximately 2300 still on the road (if I remember correctly).

[Vendetta]

I did a similar exercise last year and came up with approximately 2300 still on the road (if I remember correctly).

I'd be surprised if there were many more than this left on the road. Have to consider how many were lost by drivers who thought they were as unstoppable as they looked.

Consider also how many accidents we've heard about from members here in just the past few months.

-V

[circmand]

I'd be surprised if there were many more than this left on the road. Have to consider how many were lost by drivers who thought they were as unstoppable as they looked.

Consider also how many accidents we've heard about from members here in just the past few months.

-V

But most of them were reported as being repaired

[rsteinmetz70112]

My Calculation was based on an attrition curve I found on the Internet somewhere, so it has to be right.

[twalker920]

I write when I have time, and I have been looking for a topic. I have written auto articles before for a couple places, and some other piddling stuff (nothing that made any money or got any recognition). And here I have the most well informed resources possible.

You guys think I should take a crack at a VX book? Is anyone else going to? I would need help setting up the theme/format (story format, reference format, chronological or topical, etc)...then I'd have to find the time to crank out a draft that you lot can proceed to rip to pieces.

Regarding how many are left though, I would think close to half have fallen by the wayside just because of location (i.e. rust in coastal areas), lack of care for non-enthusiasts, and the typical life of a car on American roads. You can't assume the majority of original purchasers were VX "enthusiasts" because there by definition couldn't have been any when they came out. Sure people bought them because they appealed to them at the time, but they wouldn't all have been seen as future collectibles or rarities by most purchasers. And in 2001 not many people could or would have looked up that only 4150 of them were imported to the US. That's a luxury of information we have at our fingertips now.

I guess the research for a book might give us the whole story.