70 challenger convertible

[Black63]

Hey guys...I'm into the earlier Mopars as my handle suggests, but I wanted to ask a question about challenger production.

Back in 1970 my father was sales manager for the local Mopar dealer and ordered in a Convertible for his niece.

Just the other day I happened across some production numbers and was shocked by how low production convertibles actually were, and got to thinking her car must have been extremely low!
How do I find out?
If someone has easy access to records or something I'd appreciate it if they could give them a quick look.

The car was Panther Pink with a white (non-power) top, white interior and a Slant 6.  Power steering and I'm pretty sure power brakes.   My Dad forgot to order the power top option so the 3 sisters would team up to raise or drop it!
Man was he rotted with himself when the car came in with a manual top!  LoL

It was pretty impressive to see those three teen beauties tearing around in such a cool car back then.

That must have been a rare combo...

Thanks!
Bill

[kissalien]

Looking at the numbers it looks like 10-13 /6 ragtops built in FM3. Top color was split about 50/50.

[JH27N0B]

How were you able to break the number down?  Is there a registry and 10-13 are registered that are FM3?  Otherwise there isn't a way to break down color other than overall % of Challenger production, which only gives you a rough WAG of what % of verts might have been that color.

[kissalien]

The Option & Accessories reports I saw show 378 total /6 ragtops built and 0.3% being FM3. Due to rounding any number from 10 to 13 would give you 0.3%.

When there is a small sample size you can get close to the exact number.

The top color breakdown showed 53-47% in favor of black. (1 car difference which would indicate an odd number but since it's all rounded you can't say for sure.)

[js29no]

As some would say, DO THE MATH!!!   So he did.     

[burdar]

3% were pink or 0.3% were pink?

3%=11.34
0.3%=1.134

[anlauto]

It also doesn't work that way because the paint percentage breakdown will be 0.3% (or whatever) of total 70 Challenger production, not just convertible production....It's a good way to get an estimate, but by no means a absolute number

[kissalien]

You guys are right I screwed up the math since it should be a percentage of total production. I got the 378 from Google. The percentage I knew.

My report is only for 8 cylinder cars so I am wondering if you can use just the 6 cylinder numbers to determine an approximate number. Or is it an percentage or convertibles since they break down the 23s, 27s and 29s individually.