[Shotimes] opal frost

[Carl Prochilo]

Did you see that Howard Hughes' (at least I assume it was his from the
commercial) 1953 Buick Roadmaster sold for $1.5M in West Palm Beach at the
Barrett/Jackson auction?
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sun, April 3, 2005 3:05 am, Ron Porter said:
> Maybe.
>
> But, look at the car auctions......not that old SHOs will ever be worth
> squat in 20 years......but the biggest sellers are usually the most
> popular colors. The oddball colors are not an advantage.
>
> Probably gonna piss off Don again (but I understand that he likes the
> offbeat colors....especially brown), but the off colors (and the dated
> colors like the "rare green") will be less valuable than the basic bright
> red, white, or black.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> "Adam J. Green" <ajgreen@epix.net> wrote:
> Having a low miles Opal MTX, how many of the 1302 were MTX? If I take an
> average which for that year seemed to be 18% of sho's were MTX, would that
> mean that my car is 1 of ~~~200?
>
>
> -Adam
>
> '94 MTX Opal/Green
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Heese"
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 12:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] opal frost
>
>
>>I meant that based on the number of Opal Frost SHO's made (according to
>> the
>>quoted website), if you had a big bag of all of the Gen1/2 SHO's of all
>>colors and reached in and picked one at random, Opal Frost has the least
>>probability of being selected.
>>
>> 1,302 Opal Frost SHO's were made in from 1989 to 1995, which is the
>> smallest number for any single color on that time period.
>>
>> Make sense?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon Heese
>>
>> Ron Porter wrote:
>>> ??????
>>> I don't understand your comment about Opal Frost being the rarest color
>>> of SHO.
>>> Ron Porter
>>>
>>> Jon Heese wrote:
>>> 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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