Wild and Blue
12-10-2009, 04:43 PM
So there were 53 ZR1 and 12 ZR2 option {C3}Corvettes from 1970-72.
Then the C4 ZR-1 appeared and(discounting a few pre-production '89s) around 6939 were produced, along with the one ZR-2(w/ the marine duty 454) and one V-12 Falconer..... not to mention the various Callaway, Lingenfelter, active suspension, and Black Motor DRM's upgrades, that I assume were made on existing cars already in the count.....but overall less than 7000 C4 ZR models are the normally accepted #'s, correct?
Has anyone noticed the production #'s on the C6 ZR1? I have not picked up a new "black book" and was curious.
Anyone care to project? Will there be as great a drop in demand from the first to second year on the new ZR1s ? From the first year available to the public, demand/production of our cars dropped roughly 32%, from just over three thousand to barely above two thousand the second year. Then the third year available the production #'s dropped another ~75% to ~14% of the first years #'s, finally to settle @ 448(mgmt./beancounter decision, not based on orders) from the 4th year till the end of production. Anyone care to hazard a guess whether the C6 ZR1 will see the same drop in #'s? Think it will be able to hold for as long of a production run, 6 yrs.?
One other thing I was curious about....there was a flurry of companies who specialized in C4 ZR-1 mods, see above*,even in the early days of production. Maybe not a huge # were "upgraded" but more than just a handful. Now with the C6 ZR1s, I hear about Lingenfelter, Hennessey, and Callaway doing one or two here and there ... but not many. Maybe it is just the fact that I am not around the C6 crowd much ... but it seems these ZR1's are not being "upgraded" at the same rate the ZR-1's were. Am I wrong or is there just less modding going on w/ these C6s?
Then the C4 ZR-1 appeared and(discounting a few pre-production '89s) around 6939 were produced, along with the one ZR-2(w/ the marine duty 454) and one V-12 Falconer..... not to mention the various Callaway, Lingenfelter, active suspension, and Black Motor DRM's upgrades, that I assume were made on existing cars already in the count.....but overall less than 7000 C4 ZR models are the normally accepted #'s, correct?
Has anyone noticed the production #'s on the C6 ZR1? I have not picked up a new "black book" and was curious.
Anyone care to project? Will there be as great a drop in demand from the first to second year on the new ZR1s ? From the first year available to the public, demand/production of our cars dropped roughly 32%, from just over three thousand to barely above two thousand the second year. Then the third year available the production #'s dropped another ~75% to ~14% of the first years #'s, finally to settle @ 448(mgmt./beancounter decision, not based on orders) from the 4th year till the end of production. Anyone care to hazard a guess whether the C6 ZR1 will see the same drop in #'s? Think it will be able to hold for as long of a production run, 6 yrs.?
One other thing I was curious about....there was a flurry of companies who specialized in C4 ZR-1 mods, see above*,even in the early days of production. Maybe not a huge # were "upgraded" but more than just a handful. Now with the C6 ZR1s, I hear about Lingenfelter, Hennessey, and Callaway doing one or two here and there ... but not many. Maybe it is just the fact that I am not around the C6 crowd much ... but it seems these ZR1's are not being "upgraded" at the same rate the ZR-1's were. Am I wrong or is there just less modding going on w/ these C6s?