[Shotimes] opal frost

[Adam J. Green]

Barney cars?

'94 MTX Opal Frost
'94 MTX Emerald Green
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] opal frost


> With only 20K Gen 3s ever built, and a number of them going to the crusher 
> dues to bad cams, it doesn't matter what color you buy!!
>
> FWIW, there were only 201 Barney cars made, and at least two were totaled, 
> with Kirk resurrecting the 3rd (that we know of) totaled one.
>
> Barney cars are probably the rarest, but there was also the charcoal in 
> '96, plus they seemed to change the green color about every year.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> Jon Heese <shotimes@jonheese.com> wrote:
> Ah, good point. The source page I was going from only deals with Gen1's
> and Gen2's. Gen3's are a whole other ball of wax. The only Gen3 color
> spec data I can find from a quick search doesn't list production numbers
> but just what colors were available in what years:
>
> http://www.v8sho.com/SHO/shooptions.html
>
> I thought I'd seen a page with a color break-down for the Gen3's but
> after a few minutes of searching, haven't found anything.
>
> Regards,
> Jon Heese
>
> Mike Bruce wrote:
>> Do you count Rose Mist as a color for Gen 3s? Or was that a special
>> order only.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
>> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jon Heese
>> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:38 PM
>> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] opal frost
>>
>> Woops. Skipped a few rare color/year combinations...
>>
>> Starting at the most rare:
>>
>> Oxford White 89's (325)
>> Royal Blue 92's (818)
>> Moonlight Blue 95's (861)
>> Emerald Green 91's (900)
>> Black 92's (921)
>> Silver Frost 95's (1,243)
>> Moonlight Blue 94's (1,275)
>> Opal Frost 94's (1,302)
>>
>> Of course, if you ignore the year, Opal Frost is the rarest color of
>> SHO, just barely ahead of Mocha Frost (with 1,346).
>>
>> All of this assumes that the numbers quoted on the webpage below are
>> accurate; an assumption whose veracity I have no way of testing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon Heese
>>
>> Jon Heese wrote:
>>
>>>According to this page:
>>>
>>>http://www.geocities.com/sho_off_1993/production.html
>>>
>>>there were only 1,302 Opal Frost SHOs ever built, and they were *all*
>>>built in 1994. So, except for the Black 92's and the Moonlight Blue
>>>95's, it's the rarest color/year combination.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Jon Heese
>>>
>>>Robert Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>I once saw production numbers for various colors on a web site, but
>>
>> can't
>>
>>>>seem to find that page again. Was the Opal Frost a rare color? This
>>
>> one
>>
>>>>seems to be in exceptional shape.
>>>>
>>>>Robert Bruce
>>>>92 w/3.2
>>>>http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/810875
>>
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