Old cars survival rates
Discussion
I've been thinking about how inconsistent car survival rates seem to be.
Some cars from the 50s/60s/70s seem almost more common than they were when they were new. VW Beetles, Morris Minors, MGBs. There are plenty more you can be sure of seeing occasionally, but others that seem inexplicably rare. I can't figure out the pattern.
Original style Minis are suprisingly rare compares with Minors etc. Rover P4s seem more common than P5s, yet surely most people would prefer the P5? Both are more common than P6s or SDIs.
Fords were invariably popular in their day and should be easy to look after, yet rarely seem to be preserved. How many RWD escorts do you see? Even FWD ones aren't particularly common. The same goes for Zephyrs and Corsairs. The old Batmobile Ford Capri seems almost extinct, I'd have thought anything so outlandish would be an automatic classic.
The surprisingly common ones have good spares support, but that is partly because there are so many left. Some of the rarities are presumably due to rust (Alfasud, Fiat X1/9).
Has anyone else noted any anomalies? Or can suggest what governs the survival rate?
Some cars from the 50s/60s/70s seem almost more common than they were when they were new. VW Beetles, Morris Minors, MGBs. There are plenty more you can be sure of seeing occasionally, but others that seem inexplicably rare. I can't figure out the pattern.
Original style Minis are suprisingly rare compares with Minors etc. Rover P4s seem more common than P5s, yet surely most people would prefer the P5? Both are more common than P6s or SDIs.
Fords were invariably popular in their day and should be easy to look after, yet rarely seem to be preserved. How many RWD escorts do you see? Even FWD ones aren't particularly common. The same goes for Zephyrs and Corsairs. The old Batmobile Ford Capri seems almost extinct, I'd have thought anything so outlandish would be an automatic classic.
The surprisingly common ones have good spares support, but that is partly because there are so many left. Some of the rarities are presumably due to rust (Alfasud, Fiat X1/9).
Has anyone else noted any anomalies? Or can suggest what governs the survival rate?
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