As promised, Tim Cantwell faxed me the sheet he got at the Rally from Mark Lindgen at Saleen. I typed it into Excel, did the percentages, and sorted the data.
This was the production data as of 8/2/06, so the final numbers will be a bit different.
I also noticed that the data shows there were no silver cars built with no stripes, however I have a photo from the detroit car show where they showed such a car. However, the 17 "unknown" cars shown in 2005 includes preproduction and test vehicles, so maybe that covers it.
I've sorted the data using the total production, from the most common to the least.
As an example, you can see that the most common color scheme is red with stripes, with 523 built in 2005 (25.6% of that year's production), 288 built in 2006 (15.4% of that year's production), for a total of 811 built in both years (20.73% of the total production).
You can also see, that as I had hoped, my Blue/no stripes GT is indeed very rare, with 8 built as of that date. (However, a certain Mr. Shelby has supposedly ordered a few cars like mine... http://www.fordgtforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26948&postcount=14 ..., so white/no stripes may end up the rarest after final production ends).
UPDATE: PROBABLE ERROR IN 2005 DATA
I agree that the "zero 2005's in yellow with stripes" must be incorrect, but that's the data that was provided on the sheet.
(Zero silver, red, white or blue 2005's with no stripes also seems VERY suspicious.....)
I don't think it makes sense for me to arbitrarily change the data, but perhaps we can get corrected data from someone at Saleen or Ford.
This was the production data as of 8/2/06, so the final numbers will be a bit different.
I also noticed that the data shows there were no silver cars built with no stripes, however I have a photo from the detroit car show where they showed such a car. However, the 17 "unknown" cars shown in 2005 includes preproduction and test vehicles, so maybe that covers it.
I've sorted the data using the total production, from the most common to the least.
As an example, you can see that the most common color scheme is red with stripes, with 523 built in 2005 (25.6% of that year's production), 288 built in 2006 (15.4% of that year's production), for a total of 811 built in both years (20.73% of the total production).
You can also see, that as I had hoped, my Blue/no stripes GT is indeed very rare, with 8 built as of that date. (However, a certain Mr. Shelby has supposedly ordered a few cars like mine... http://www.fordgtforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=26948&postcount=14 ..., so white/no stripes may end up the rarest after final production ends).
UPDATE: PROBABLE ERROR IN 2005 DATA
I agree that the "zero 2005's in yellow with stripes" must be incorrect, but that's the data that was provided on the sheet.
(Zero silver, red, white or blue 2005's with no stripes also seems VERY suspicious.....)
I don't think it makes sense for me to arbitrarily change the data, but perhaps we can get corrected data from someone at Saleen or Ford.
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