The Last Celica Convertible Options

[ArJayKay]

I bought my brand-new 99 Celica convertible at the tail end of its model year. It's the very best car I've ever owned, hands down. Loads of fun, too.

It took quite a while for the actual delivery. The dealer told me about ASC, the third-party company that actually turns ordinary cars into convertibles. Yadda, yadda, yadda -- and eventually he tells me "well, ASC sort of ran out of conversion parts -- after all, it's the last Celica convertible". Yeah, right.

I've lived with this snippet of conversation for 12 years.

Half of me says "Hey, don't fool yourself! What are the odds? Just be happy that it might be the very last one. Why invite disappointment?".

The other half of me says "Go ahead and do the research. Wouldn't it be waaaaaay cool if it really was the last one, and you could prove it?".

Today, Tuesday, December 6, 2011, I made my decision. I want to know for sure, one way or the other.

So -- can anyone out there tell me, authoritatively, whether my 99 Celica convertible with ASC sticker number 2312 is truly the very last one manufactured?

Thanks to all.

[celicalibre]

The Vin number of my 1999 black convertible ends in 2510. Does that mean my black beauty (black on black on black) was the 22nd from the last convertible made in 1999? The last one had an ASC number of 2510. Does that coincide with the VIN number digits? Who else on the forum has close 1999 convertible VIN numbers?

I bought my brand-new 99 Celica convertible at the tail end of its model year. It's the very best car I've ever owned, hands down. Loads of fun, too.

It took quite a while for the actual delivery. The dealer told me about ASC, the third-party company that actually turns ordinary cars into convertibles. Yadda, yadda, yadda -- and eventually he tells me "well, ASC sort of ran out of conversion parts -- after all, it's the last Celica convertible". Yeah, right.

I've lived with this snippet of conversation for 12 years.

Half of me says "Hey, don't fool yourself! What are the odds? Just be happy that it might be the very last one. Why invite disappointment?".

The other half of me says "Go ahead and do the research. Wouldn't it be waaaaaay cool if it really was the last one, and you could prove it?".

Today, Tuesday, December 6, 2011, I made my decision. I want to know for sure, one way or the other.

So -- can anyone out there tell me, authoritatively, whether my 99 Celica convertible with ASC sticker number 2312 is truly the very last one manufactured?

Thanks to all.

[thymeclock]

The Vin number of my 1999 black convertible ends in 2510. Does that mean my black beauty (black on black on black) was the 22nd from the last convertible made in 1999? The last one had an ASC number of 2510. Does that coincide with the VIN number digits? Who else on the forum has close 1999 convertible VIN numbers?



Thanks to all.

Apparently there is no correlation between the ASC number and the VIN number.

The VIN number on my '99 convertible ends in 2709. The ASC number is 0355, and the conversion was done in November 1998.