How does the Pentastar add up?

[pabster]

So I've got a question for all you Mopar maniacs...

How many total cars did Chrysler produce in the heyday of B-Bodies compared to the other 2 American manufacturers? There's always talk of rarity when it comes to B-Bodies, and I want to get an idea of how much smaller Chrysler was in production numbers compared to Ford and GM. I suppose I could try and find these numbers myself, but it's more fun to hear everyone's input, plus a bit of hate on the other two makes thrown in for good measure...

Thanks for enlightening me with useless info to fill my brain with... :icon_shaking2:

 

[Hemi Rebel]

Look at production totals of the 69 camaro vs the 70 barracuda something like 250k camaros total and 50k barracudas.

 

[WP29440SE]

i think there were something like 2 million mustangs produced between 64 1/2 to like 1973. but i have nothing to back it up

 

[Budnicks]

example

Heres one example... Well in 1968 the Road Runner was only 44,000 some odd cars produced, low #'s compared to a GM or Ford... Camaro or Chevelle, Skylark/GS, Cutlass/442 or Tempest/GTO, Mustang, Fairlane or Galaxies of the same years were also well over 100,000+ units of each, double any sales #'s of any Chrysler Product, 1968 Charger was a big # that year, I don't know the exact # off the top of my head {YOU CAN JUST GOOGLE IT}... I'm sure it was great in Chrysler's mind, that was great because it cut into Pontiac's, Olds, Buick's & Fords sales/production #'s, They {Plymouth} with the Road Runner didn't expect to sell anywhere near that amount either, there was only a 5,000 unit original planned production run, they had to expand to meet the supply & demand in the market, ultimately just aiding to Chrysler Corp./Plymouth & Dodge getting a bigger piece of the pie for that year... the next year 1969 the Road Runner was the car of the year, production #'s pretty much doubled, still nowhere near GM/Ford #'s thou... I doubt it fazed GM/Chevy division much at all either... The 68/69 Super Bee were even lower production #'s, making them even more rare...

 

[Bruzilla]

E-bodies are the most telling. There were more Camaros made in 1969 alone than E-bodies from 1970-1974, which is why even 40 years later we're still tripping over old Camaros everywhere.

 

[Budnicks]

B-Body covers many years & many models of Dodge & Plymouth, well over 2 decades worth of mid-sized B-Body cars, also including many Dodge & Plymouth station wagons too...

 

[hashmaker]

After 40 yrs of Chebbies & 18 retorations I switched when I bought my '65 Satellite. 4 of the cars I restored/moded were '65 Impala SS cars. In reading on them I found they made just over 1,000,000 of the Impala/Impala SS/Caprice models that year. That record is said to still stand today as the largest run of a particular year/model. You compare that to the number of '65Satellite & Belvederes. That is probably why you find 15 at every swap meet and rarely a '60s mopar... out west anyway.

 

[Budnicks]

i think there were something like 2 million mustangs produced between 64 1/2 to like 1973. but i have nothing to back it up

FoMoCo sold over 1,000,000 of the 1964-1/2 Mustangs {Carrol Shelby called them, "secretary cars"}, before even the 65 model year began...

 

[WP29440SE]

FoMoCo sold over 1,000,000 64-1/2 Mustangs {Carrol Shelby called them "secretary cars"}, before even the 65 model year began...

wow , ok well , maybe there are closer 5,000,000. explains why there are still 2 for every square mile around here

 

[Budnicks]

yeah the Mustang was a "home run hit" for FoMoCo, it did "way better" than the Falcon/Sprint model foot print, pan, dog house & cowl, that it was based on...

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The Valiant/1st gen Barracuda was hastefully ramped up & put on the market early, just to try to beat FoMoCo to the Punch/market, they didn't sell anything like the Mustangs did thou...

 

[pabster]

B-Body covers many years & many models of Dodge & Plymouth, well over 2 decades worth of mid-sized B-Body cars, also including many Dodge & Plymouth station wagons too...

I know, I know. I just wanted some numbers. OK, I'll get more specific. How many B-Body Chargers were made each year? I don't think I'll waste my time trying to find out how many Ford/GM equivalents were slapped together during the same time period...

This time, I'll be answering my own questions. Interesting numbers. According to Allpar.com, around 710,000 B-Body Chargers were made.

http://www.allpar.com/cars/dodge/charger-history.html

Also from the same Allpar.com article, this chart of Charger production numbers, color coded to generations, is very interesting as well.

 

[Budnicks]

Wow, I didn't realize that they made so many Chargers in 1973... I would have thought 1968 would have been the best production years, of the 1st 4 generations...

 

[pabster]

Wow, I didn't realize that they made so many Chargers in 1973... I would have thought 1968 would have been the best production years, of the 1st 4 generations...

And now I know we have it all wrong... 1978 Chargers are the most rare, so they should be the most prized!