Most Numerous Surviving Antique Car

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Wick

The VW Bug has to be it, funny thing is you never see them on the road and very few at car shows.
You can buy just about anything for a bug now, they are very simple cars. Ive owned about 50 over the years and have a original rust free 68 with 82,000 that my uncle bought new. The 69 double cab, i searched for one for 35 years, nobody knows what it is.

The best thing about those years of the double cab, they have roll down windows in the doors!

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Bob Bidonde

what is the most numerous pre-1941 antique car to survive to this day?

Hard to say, I'm sure there are lots of cars with higher survival rates. But the Duesenberg Model J is up there with about 78% of them being known to survive.

Model T's and A's wouldn't even register on the survival chart.

[nkaminar]

I vote for Hot Wheels.

[BlueSunoco]

Originally Posted by dave in australia

In Australia, there were 300 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III's built, and today there are 3615 still around, so a survival rate of 1205%. Not a bad effort.

Dave THAT is too funny


A Chevy guy once told me there are more 409 '62 SS Impalas running around than Chevrolet ever built new! I can believe both statements!

[Gene F]

Originally Posted by Hitman

The best thing about those years of the double cab, they have roll down windows in the doors!

I'd like one too. When ya find one get ready to pay! $

[Y-Blockhead]

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Originally Posted by BlueSunoco

Dave THAT is too funny

A Chevy guy once told me there are more 409 '62 SS Impalas running around than Chevrolet ever built new! I can believe both statements!

There are more "Deluxe" Model A's running around today than were ever built also!

[Waorani]

Most numerous antique cars - the ones that are GOING to be worked on!

[BlueSunoco]

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

There are more "Deluxe" Model A's running around today than were ever built also!

You're right I forgot that one

[dave in australia]

Originally Posted by Waorani

Most numerous antique cars - the ones that are GOING to be worked on!

Agree, and I am guilty of that. I have seven A's in varying states of restoration, but only one registered and on the road.

[Clem Clement]

Bobby,
Good hearing from ya.
The answer to yur Q is the 1922 GADunk. One was made and is still sit stuck a junkyard.
( " when you turn left the car says GADUNK, as the wheel hits the inner fender. Nobody never has ever turned it righto !!
Clem

[ronn]

Tom, very few chevys in those yrs today- due to wood rot. I have a 31 roadster and it outsold ford, but very few left.

regarding bugs, my brother has a 53 Zwitter. pretty rare and ridiculously expensive. His is a convertible. Many mech parts interchanged with the Porsche at that time.

[AzBob]

Originally Posted by ronn

Tom, very few chevys in those yrs today- due to wood rot. I have a 31 roadster and it outsold ford, but very few left..

X2. Chevys of the Model A era were absolutely loaded with wood from stem to stern. I owned a 1928 Chevy coach back in the late 1960’s. Even back then, the body was falling apart.

[ModelA29]

Originally Posted by ronn

Tom, very few chevys in those yrs today- due to wood rot. I have a 31 roadster and it outsold ford, but very few left.

When I was in 8th grade (1963) I came home and told my dad I had swapped my 1/4 midget for a 1928 Dodge. He told me I should look for a Model A because of wood problems with other cars. His mom had a new 29 Chevy and it rotted away after a few MI winters. Once he looked at the Dodge he noticed there was no wood so the swap was made.
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[ronn]

Dodge made a great car, from the moment they left ford on his own.

[Brad in Germany]

My VW Beetle identifies as a Ford Model A......so the numbers are skewed a bit:




But my wife's Model A Coupe identifies as a VW Beetle so I think the numbers are actually balanced:



....but my daughter's Jeep identifies as a Ford Model A also (note the 1929 Ford Model AA style commercial wheels), so the Ford Model A obviously has the most surviving vehicles..........right?




Brad in Maryland (with some identity concerns)





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