How many are left?

How many '65 skylarks are left? my wife asked me this question over the weekend and i wonder my self.

Does anybody know how many of these are acutally left?

1965 Buick skylark (coupe)

 

That would be pretty tough to track down, but we could guess abit.
Figure that there was 46,698 65 sport coupes made with a V-8 and another 4501 with a V-6. So you get a total of 51199 total sport coupes.
If 1 of 10 survived, 5119 remaining
If 1 of 20 survived, 2560 remaining
If 1 of 30 survived, 1706 remaining
Given the age of the vehicle, the fact that they were 2-doors and the overwhelming amount of them were V-8's (crash factor) I'd guess the answer lies somewhere between 1 of 20 or 30 .

 

Call these guys...



Automotive Information Clearinghouse

These guys tracked my Centurion. 2100 made, 500 surviving REGISTERED in the country. 8 in Missouri. Good folks. I think the charge for doing this was $19.

Box 1746
La Mesa, CA 91944
619-447-7200 service@automotiveinformation.com

 

"it would seem to me that a GS would be less likely to be scrapped than a similar skylark or special..simply due to muscle car status.."

But you would also need to consider that it was a "sport car" and would have been purchased by, on average, a younger customer,
younger driver=bad things happening to a car
probably a wash overall.
I can't find any numbers on 65 GS's.

 

:Comp: Adam is correct !:Smarty: That is the same company we used to check on our 68 LeSabre .


254 four door sedans registered in the USA :gt:



:TU:

 

That's real interesting. It misses some cars in barns, or a few like my 72 that hasn't been registered in two years. Good idea though for a rough estimate.

 

Kind of a bummer when you realize these cars are slowly slipping away. When I first got into Buicks in the Mid 80's finding replacement parts for the 64 Skylark I had,or finding a 455 in the bone yard was not hard at all. Now-a-days you have about the same chances of finding anything in a Midwest bone yard as you do finding the fountain of youth.

 

slipping away

On the other side of the coin it could be that more cars are being restored in the time since the '80s and therefore more parts are being used and less cars are getting scrapped to supply parts. Just thought I'd try to put a positive spin on things.