 The Last Celica Convertible |
 Dec 6, 2011 - 2:07 PM
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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. |
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Dec 6, 2011 - 6:09 PM
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QUOTE (Fuelish @ May 24, 2007 - 7:53 AM)  Hey, yall .... am not a 6 g owner (have a 5th gen vert), but I do have those numbers....I was wondering as well when I bought my car last year, and ASC was kind enough to provide me the production numbers (although I'm not sure if that was for world-wide distribution or usdm only....dunno) So, for all interested, here's all production figures for convertible conversions done to Celicas by ASC. 1984 : 250 1985 : 4,248 1987 : 5,000 1988 : 6,783 1989 : 7,311 1991 : 7,917 1992 : 6,697 (of which mine is #5,339  )1993 : 4,671 1995 : 6,004 1996 : 2,792 1997 : 4,364 ..... to answer your question specifically... 1998 : 2,316 1999 : 2,532 Hope this is of interest to some of yall .... I sometimes browse this site, but joined today to give up the numbers ASC was kind enough to e-mail to me. - Fuelish Source: http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=48141 So not the last 'vert Celica, but within the last couple hundred, anyway. -------------------- "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others labored hard for." -Socrates. Even Socrates told us to use the search button!
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