FReeper Canteen ~ The 20 Rarest Muscle Cars ~ Feb 26, 2007

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[StarCMC]

 

 

The 20 Rarest Muscle Cars

Among muscle cars, there always were a few that, for whatever reason were a little more rare than others. This list shows the rarest factory built production muscle cars. These are cars that ANY buyer could walk into ANY dealer and conceivably order. One off cars for company executives, dealer modified cars (Yenkos, Baldwin-Motion, etc.) and purpose built race cars (427 Cobras) are not included. Cars are ranked by total built by year, model, body style, and engine. Transmission breakouts are also shown, if known. Further breakdowns (by color, options, accessory) are either impossible to get or impractical. Note that by their nature, Hemi Convertibles are widely represented on this list. Convertibles represented everything that the typical muscle car buyer didn't want - a higher price, more weight, and generally lower top speed. Add to that the high performance (and high price tag) for the Hemi engine, and it is no surprise that Hemi Convertibles are the most rare of all muscle cars. In fact, throughout the Hemi era (1966-1971), Chrysler built 8,420,000 cars, yet only 179 of them (1 out of every 47,000) were Hemi convertibles. Truly, as a group, these were the most rare of the rare.

 

RAREST MUSCLECARS
#	YEAR/MODEL	BODY STYLE	ENGINE	TOTAL	MT	AUTO
1	1967 Dodge Coronet R/T	Convertible	426 Hemi	2	1	1
1	1970 Dodge Coronet R/T	Convertible	426 Hemi	2	?	?
3	1969 Chevrolet Corvette ZL-1 427	2D Coupe	ZL-1 427 V8	3	?	?
3	1970 Plymouth Road Runner	Convertible	426 Hemi	3	1	2
5	1970 Dodge Super Bee	2D Pillared Coupe	426 Hemi	4	4	0
6	1966 Dodge Coronet 400	Convertible	426 Hemi	6	?	?
7	1971 Plymouth 'Cuda Hemi Covertible	Convertible	426 Hemi	7	5	2
8	1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am	Convertible	400 RA IV	8	4	4
9	1968 Dodge Coronet	Convertible	426 Hemi	9	1	8
10	1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 426 Hemi Convertible	Convertible	426 Hemi	9	5	4
11	1966 Plymouth Belvedere II	Convertible	426 Hemi	10	4	6
11	1969 Dodge Coronet	Convertible	426 Hemi	10	4	6
11	1969 Plymouth Road Runner	Convertible	426 Hemi	10	4	6
14	1969 Plymouth GTX	Convertible	426 Hemi	11	5	6
15	1970 Dodge Coronet	2D Hardtop	426 Hemi	13	4	9
16	1970 Plymouth 'Cuda	Convertible	426 Hemi	14	6	8
17	1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX	Convertible	426 Hemi	17	7	10
17	1971 Pontiac GTO Judge	Convertible	455	17	?	?
19	1967 Chevrolet Corvette L88	Coupe & Convertible	427 L88 V8	20	?	?
19	1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 LS6	Convertible	454 LS6 V8	20	?	?

 This list from MuscleCars.com

Remember folks, the reason we are here in the FReeper Canteen is to honor our heroes - the members of the United States Military and their families - and to show appreciation for what they do for us every day.  Please remember to say thank you to them today!  As usual, check your politics at the door and let's have a good time!

 

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Good Morning Meg.{{{HUGS}}}

[GrandEagle]

Good Morning Troops, FRiends, and fellow Canteeners!
Be sure and read S-L-O-W so you won't out run my world class 28KBps connection.
Well, after a very warm weekend (88 yesterday) we are going to cool off a bit - but just a little. Low 70's today.
It looks like summer may arrive a bit early this year in Dixie.
I do hope everyone has a GRAND day!

[MEG33]

(((GeeBee)))I posted it so you could go shopping! LOL

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning GE :)
I'm so jealous. 70's. It will be a beautiful day there.
I wish you a GRAND Day! :)

[MEG33]

(((Hugs))), Mrs.N!

[Arrowhead1952]

Morning Meg. We are headed for the mid 80 range today. It's in the low 50's now, and I'm waiting to get out and get some things done. I'd post this as a thread, but bet the mods would pull it in a hurry.

Some Leander residents are outraged by a local church’s marketing campaign (Better sex)

Here is the first paragraph.

It is not what you would expect to see on a church billboard, two sets of feet peeking out from under bed sheets or what you would expect to hear in church.

[GodBlessUSA]

HeeHee!!

[GodBlessUSA]

HeeHee!!

[GodBlessUSA]

HeeHee!!

[GodBlessUSA]

HeeHee!!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Morning GE.

I am typing real sloooooooooooooow so your connection can keep up with my typing.;)

Have a wonderful day.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Brat.
FRmail me so you can snatch the 50.
I should have known.
LOL.

[GodBlessUSA]

Good Morning Star :)
Excellent thread!
Here's my pick ;).

[GodBlessUSA]

LOL! :)

[MEG33]

;) It is unusually warm here for February, too.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

:)

[Jhensy]

Circa 1978, my brother bought a 1970 Challenger 440 6-Pack while a junior in high school. Same as here, the bright lime green with black vinyl roof, although with some kind of black fade/stripe decal on the sides.

My mom basically had a coronary when he pulled into the driveway with that "hideous" thing. All that work gardening, making our house and property the pride of the neighborhood... and then dumping that lime green monster in the middle of it.

(And of course our house became hot-rod central for all the local hoods after that.. another thing Mom loved. Not.)

I'll never forget that car... me a fifteen-year-old, no driver's license yet (yeah, like my bro would let me drive it). Those hard-as-a-rock black leather seats, the spartan interior, the 8-track player with the Jensen coaxial speakers, the smell of Armour-All, pine tree air freshener and weed...

It was a garage queen for the first couple of months, then my brother finally took it out for the first cruise one night. Five of us crammed in there, we kept bothering him to "Open it up, man!" He finally said, "All right, hold on" and roared the beast into life, drag strip-style.

And passed a cop within the first 5 seconds, and got caught. Five seconds, true story.

The car was a bit of a headache for him, and he sold it a year later because he was going to college. I don't remember what he sold it for, but it wasn't more than a few thousand in 1979 dollars.

Of course he kills himself now whenever reminded how rare the car was and how expensive it is now... in fact, a year or two after he sold it he got an out-of-the-blue call from some southern guy who heard through the grapevine my brother owned a 440 6-Pack... guy said he would have offered him the moon for it, etc.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning. How's it going?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Here is some more real muscle...

[MEG33]

Probably pack the pews..LOL!

I need to get out and do more outside,too. First...more coffee.