1 of 51 ! can it be possible :

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So ! lets start this : 24 817 duster 340 1970 were made:

3018 were shipped for canada : 29.66% of all duster 340s were 4 speed cars ,
so.. 3018 divided by 29.66 % = 895
895 x 5.7 % ( Galen Govier production of fj5 340 dusters ) = 51

51 made fj5 duster 340s sublime green 4 speed for canada , i dont know if you guys have other infos on this but i think that its pretty rare and close to be very accurate
 
anything is possible - the problem with this is that you assume the % rate of shipped 340 4spd. cars to Canada is the same as the % rate of 340 4spd cars built.. for all you know it was 1/2 that and they are twice as rare up there as you are thinking
 
so you think that is was more 447issh cars to be 4 speed 340s for canada ´ ive been told that my car was rare , but i have no idea , theres no exact numbers to break it down the right way
 
so you think that is was more 447issh cars to be 4 speed 340s for canada ´ ive been told that my car was rare , but i have no idea , theres no exact numbers to break it down the right way
I'm not really thinking of any type of # - as you said, there's no exact numbers - so you're left with assumptions and conjecture.. ya gotta realize that it could also be twice as many rather than 1/2 that.. if you have one of 150 cars shipped to Canada - it's still pretty rare..
 
I have always been told in this hobby (decades) ma mopar kept no records of much that people come up with as far as production figures, ie colors, etc...

I had car buddy that was always dragging home a roller, it was always retorted by him to one of 2 of one OR one of 4 etc.... and Galen?? ha

BUT sounds like you have a very desirable car!!!!
 
Thanks a lot !! All these little options make its more rare , and yes its a windsor canadian R code on fender tag , build to canada specs , didnt even put the option that its a rare j81 go wing car : so it looks pretty rare , im really obsesed with the right numbers. : dont want to look dumb if somebody asks me its 1 of ? Ahahah
 
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So ! lets start this : 24 817 duster 340 1970 were made:

3018 were shipped for canada : 29.66% of all duster 340s were 4 speed cars ,
so.. 3018 divided by 29.66 % = 895
895 x 5.7 % ( Galen Govier production of fj5 340 dusters ) = 51

51 made fj5 duster 340s sublime green 4 speed for canada , i dont know if you guys have other infos on this but i think that its pretty rare and close to be very accurate

That's not right. You can't assume percentages of percentages.

More 340 cars were FJ6 than /6 grandma Dusters.

Maybe all 5.7% of the 3108 Duster that were painted FJ6 where 340 4spd cars. That would be 177. Or maybe most were like 150.

Is the percentage of FJ6 painted car just for Canada or is that a US number you applied to Canada numbers? Or total all US and Canada number applied?

I think even the most popular paint colors where only like 10-12%. So with your reasoning that's would make even the most popular colors 1 of 100 for 4spd Dusters.
 
the % is the one of G.Govier , 5.7 % was for the sublime color fj5 , there was 3018 canadian 340 dusters for canada , i was assuming that around 29% because thats what the us % was for the 4 speeds , my car might even be rarer than that , but since everything is not kept anymore and that even ma mopar as no archives or infos i do my best to figure out something in the real world !:)

*** i think that between 50 and 100 is very realistic
 
Your also assuming there was any difference between US and Canadian "spec" cars back then .We drive on the same side if the road and the metric system ,and emission rules didn't come in till much later in the 70s so other than Canadian named models which the Duster isn't there probably wasn't any differences in 1970 . Oh and if your obsessed with minutia if the car was built here it wasn't "shipped" to here , the balance of the production run are actually "American Shipped" Dusters . Now back to counting belly button lint .
 
I say have fun with all the cool options it came with. cool car. now here is a bit of coincidences or whatever ya want to call them. back from bout '86 to '92 I did pretty much all E bodies ( then I got smarter!? ha). and got into 68-70 B bodies.... o k I had 6 AAR and TA's during that time. just what I found, I did not go looking for any color. I had 6, 5 were lime green, and 1 B5 . I had also during that time 5-6-7 V code 70 440-6 challengers and 1 was a c uda. all were originally purple!!!! ha;; I had many 70 383 E bodies back then 2-3 71's , a few 318 verts, 1 340 72, now of those they were pretty much a mixture of colors, red, blue, black, of how many?? there might have been 1 lime maybe 1 purple in that bunch.. point is, for discussion sake, like said above, the more high performance cars tended to come with more of the high impact colors.
like said, you have a cool car, and plenty rare and desirable!!
 
@ Cannucky if youre not happy with my post keep it for yourself , just trying to get some infos here , never said that my numbers were 100% correct.
 
I tell people mine are 1 of 1, because it's the only one like it that I own!!
 
Galen's numbers are cars that are in his registry, not total production numbers. So when he says a car is 1 of whatever, the "whatever" is cars he knows about, not the total number of cars produced by the factory with those options.

I was gonna pay Galen a whole bunch of money for a full decode etc on my '71 EL5 GT. It's one of ~1280 GT's, plus it's a high impact color, power steering, A/C, 318 (most were /6's, none were 340's), built in Windsor for US export. I saw another one of his decodes on a similar car (318, Windsor built for US export) that said that car was 1 of only 13. Then I got a good look at the 70/71 GT registry. There were already 12 cars like that in the GT registry, and one of them wasn't mine. And I can guarantee Galen didn't previously know of my car, it's not something the previous owners would have had any idea about. So, that means that 100% of those 13 cars made by the factory are now in the GT registry, or, there were a hell of a lot more than 13 of them, and Galen only knows about 13. Let me give you a hint, it's the latter. Because the odds of 13 little old 318 cars surviving to present day and ALL of them being registered in a GT registry that only had 69 cars in it are worse than winning the Powerball.
 
What does being shipped to canada matter? Were the cars different in any way in 1970?
That was my point no they are the same so the number sold on either side of the border doesn't make one rarer than the other .That only applies to vehicles that have different model packages.
I'm not unhappy with your post I'm just pointing out the absurdity of your flawed math , If you want to pretend you have some super rare car based on that sort of retarded logic hey have at it and welcome to the internet where that sort of nonsense gets exposed .You have a Duster in a high impact colour , it is the same as every other Duster in that colour with that package enjoy it .
 
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