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How many manual SC300s do you think there are

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Old 05-10-13, 03:55 AM
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According to wiki and if I added correctly there were only 3,893 Manual SC300s sold in the United States. I wonder how many are still on the road. If you assumed 5% loss per year for just the last 10 years there would be less than 2,000 of them on the road right now.
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Though that might be accurate with OEM manual W58 SC's, plenty of R154 and V160 swaps have been done several times. Your assumption is possibly semi-accurate.
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factory 5 speeds?
Yeah probably around 2k-2.5k.
But like tabaka said there are probably quite a lot more swaps out there, I'd be willing to be in total with swaps we might be looking at 3,300 or more, but that's just a completely unfounded guess, there could be any number of swaps or 5 speeds out there.
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I have a factory one from 1993!
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I had 3 factory 5spds at ones. 95, 92 and 93
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factory 97 5spd
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about three fiddy
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i have an even better question, ive tried looking but came up with nothing. how many original 5 spd hardtops were produced?
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I want to swap in a factory 5 speed!
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my gf rocks a 92 factory 5 speed. But now it's 1jz r154.
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I've got one. As far as the previous title indicated I'm the second owner, too. A good number of them are around but not everyone saw them as particularly rare. Who knows how many originals are around now but that original production number is pretty close: it should be 3,883 between 1992 and 1997. Different years had different numbers produced and they vary widely. For instance, the 1993MY there were 910 but we all know only 120 were made for 1997MY's. 1992 had something like 1,200 or 1,500 manuals.

But existing ones? Who can say but there are many swaps now as has been mentioned.
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original here.
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i got a factory 5 speed, but its a soarer r154 now
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i own 3 factory 5 speeds lol
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Originally Posted by account2x
about three fiddy
Ha! This sheitt makes me laugh.


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