True 67,8 & 9 Formula S Barracudas

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Aloha, Just wondering how many are left out there ? As my 68 Form. S notch 383/4speed and or other Form. S rides. I see production #'s but truly how many are left ? Mahalo C
Mine is still a work in progress !!!



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I have a similar car. How many are left? You might try the national Barracuda Owners group to see if they a registry. Let me know what you learn.
 
Aloha. I have never seen a registry for these cars. Galen has a registry but only for certain "rare" models like Hemi cars. Galen's books may shed some light on this as they may list production numbers. After you find a production number, say 24,000, then somehow it's factored in- how many were FB?, coups?, convertibles? How many of the FB's were 383's? How many of the FB 383 cars were 4-sp? I really don't understand the process. Mine= '68 FB, 383, 4-sp. I saw a Barret-Jackson show where a car like this was said to be 1 of 331. This is the number I go with until someone corrects me. These cars are rare, but how many are left?
 
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Aloha. I have never seen a registry for these cars. Galen has a registry but only for certain "rare" models like Hemi cars. Galen's books may shed some light on this as they may list production numbers. After you find a production number, say 24,000, then somehow it's factored in- how many were FB?, coups?, convertibles? How many of the FB's were 383's? How many of the FB 383 cars were 4-sp? I really don't understand the process. Mine= '68 FB, 383, 4-sp. I saw a Barret-Jackson show where a car like this was said to be 1 of 331. This is the number I go with until someone corrects me. These cars are rare, but how many are left?
Only 154 notch's i believe


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According to Galen's book:
1968 Formula S 383

BH23 Hardtops- 252 total
4-speed 153
Auto 99

BH27 Convertibles 64 total
4-speed 40
Auto 24

BH29 Sports Hardtop 963 total
4-speed 569
Auto 394

I only gave you whats printed.
 
According to Galen's book:
1968 Formula S 383

BH23 Hardtops- 252 total
4-speed 153
Auto 99

BH27 Convertibles 64 total
4-speed 40
Auto 24

BH29 Sports Hardtop 963 total
4-speed 569
Auto 394

I only gave you whats printed.
That math looks better than the info I found ! But close anyway !!!
 
The fact is, nobody knows how many are surviving. I suspect the proportion of Formula S survivors is slightly higher than the average for all Barracudas, since 1) people have thought of them as collectible for some time, and 2) people have been willing to strip & scrap non-S cars to restore S cars. For a 50-year-old model, if half are surviving, that would be pretty good.
 
The fact is, nobody knows how many are surviving. I suspect the proportion of Formula S survivors is slightly higher than the average for all Barracudas, since 1) people have thought of them as collectible for some time, and 2) people have been willing to strip & scrap non-S cars to restore S cars. For a 50-year-old model, if half are surviving, that would be pretty good.
Thats kind of why im asking ? Let see if WE can make a FABO list. It would benefit us all to know whats out there. Maybe give us a sort of value ? We have no forum for Form. S cars Maybe we should ? Not everyone can find or afford Hemi SS cars.
 
Thats kind of why im asking ? Let see if WE can make a FABO list. It would benefit us all to know whats out there. Maybe give us a sort of value ? We have no forum for Form. S cars Maybe we should ? Not everyone can find or afford Hemi SS cars.

Good idea. Start a thread, maybe call it "67-69 Formula S Register", invite people to post their cars. If it catches on, ask the moderator to make it sticky.
 
Real 68 383 4 speed Formula S . notch . I found it 7 miles from my house . Sat for 34 yrs in a pole shed ..Restored it 3 yrs ago .

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I know there have been a couple members over the years that had Formula S 383 registries.
I talk to one, Rocky_JS on a fairly regular basis. He had a pretty good one going not sure where he is with it.
I'll see him next week at Carlisle and will ask.
 
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Thanks for the info from Galen's books- I gotta get me a set. If someone wants to start a registry, I will help.
 
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Thanks for the info from Galen's books- I gotta get me a set. If someone wants to start a registry, I will help.
I wouldn't even know how to start a registry ? But will help where i can !
 
the correct answer is:

there is absolutely no way to know

unless someone knows the whereabouts of every single car produced, which is highly unlikely

there is a 383 S notch project on ebay right now
 
This is probably just pie in the sky, but the way I see it, is that any "registry" is accomplished over time. As new entrants are discovered they are added to the list. So by their nature they are always incomplete, awaiting the next entry. Only after time could be it be viewed as a rough guess as to how many are remaining. They should never be viewed as the final authority on the subject. It is only awaiting the next barn find. Still, for what it's worth, it's nice to know.
 
I had 2 AAR's and never put ether on the registry, So you have people out there that really don't want anyone to know what they got. One day a gut from Tx. shows up on my door step looking for my X9 AAR, said he bought a panther pink one about 100 miles from me and while he was here he wanted to look at mine. He gave me a low ball price and I told him it's not for sale and I ask him how he found me, he said he wrote a program that searched all the title bureau's in the US for vins starting in BS23JOB and that is how he found every AAR in the country.
 
I respect peoples privacy. There will always be those who will not participate do to their own reasons for which we need to respect. So, in building a registry, how much info should be collected? It would seem that some form of "proof of authenticity" be included. Cars with missing VIN or fender tags could be included but noted. Maybe also- "A" body Dodge and "A" body Plymouth.
 
I got my proof !
Who's next ?

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A registry is the only way to estimate the remaining cars. Any way you can confirm production numbers certainly adds to the value and fun of car ownership. Congrats.
 
To be actually useful, a "registry" would consist of a searchable online database. It would need to be curated; that is, one person or a small group of persons would be responsible for maintaining and updating it. There would be a web form where people could join up and enter information about their car, but it would need to be verified somehow before being posted (to keep scammers from posting photos of other people's cars, for instance). Certain fields could be kept private, so that, for instance, I could search for all of the Formula S cars in Illinois, but it wouldn't show me the street addresses or personal info or full VINs. If I wanted to contact the owner of a specific car, the request would go through the database manager, and the owner could choose to reply or not. It doesn't have to work exactly like this, but that would be the general idea. As you can see, it would take a bit of technical ability and a certain amount of time to manage it. Perhaps it could be done on a fee or subscription basis, but realistically, that would be an enormous barrier to it becoming widely used, and thus, actually useful. It is the sort of thing that would be a great volunteer project for someone with the tech chops, a deep interest in the cars and a certain amount of free time (a retired IT manager?).
 
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