Well, I took a jaypeg pic of the 1-page document , that I am about to
describe, & tried to send it to my home (where I am "allowed/recognized"
to post messages to the List), but that image hasn't showed up, yet.
I'll send it to a member, manana, & he might be able to post it here.
It is a computer generated spread sheet, that the Historical Society
included with an IBM Build-card, in response to a request for info, from
a man who owns a 57 D500.
The numbers that are broken out differ somewhat from those as provided
by Bill.
When I referred to it, yesterday, I had forgotten about all the neat
info that's on it.
The page summarizes the 1957 & 1958 Dodge production (I presume, for the
model year).
Altho I did not bother to add up the 1958 total production, I did so,
for 1957, & arrived at 287,608 domestic, and 7496 for export (Custom
Royal models only ; no Mayfair/ /Regent etc production numbers were
given out).
Now, for the good stuff, and you can compare the following numbers with
those that Bill gave out:
The factory says, for 1957:
7,163 Suburbans (2-doors,only)
13,033 Sierra 6-passenger
3,212 Custom Sierra 6-passenger
4,019 Sierra 9-passenger
3,054 Custom Sierra 9-passenger
30,481 total station wagons
3,363 Coro convies
2,456 Custom Royal convies
5,819 total convies (THAT'S why you can't find any!!)
Now, for 1958:
1,300 Suburbans
7902 Sierra 6-pass
2,278 CSierra 6-pass
5,211 Sierra 9-pass
3,505 Csierra 9-pass
20,196 total production
1,718 Coro convies
1,139 Custom Roy convies
2,857 total production (now, THAT'S RARE!!!!)
Again, with any luck, I'll be able to get this Factory-generated spread
sheet posted to the List, tomorrow.
Neil Vedder
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- From: Bill Watson <wwatson6@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:48:10 -0800
Dodge did keep track of production, but like all auto makers did not release
anything more detailed than annual production by car line (model and
calendar) to the public.
The figures we see today for Chrysler Corporation production prior to 1966
come from two sources, both using the Chrysler Historical archives -
Richard M. Langworth - Chrysler and Imperial
Don Butler - Plymouth, DeSoto and Dodge
Jerry Heasley published a book on U.S. production figures in 1977 and used
the work of the abobe authors. At the time of publication , Don Butler was
collecting production figures on Plymouth and DeSoto cars for his book, The
Plymouth and DeSoto Story. Unfortunately it seems Mr. Butler had gotten
only up to 1955, which is why Heasley's book lists Plymouth, Dodge and
DeSoto produciton up to 1955. Mr. Langworth had published his book on the
postwar Chrysler and Imperial and thus had figures up to 1975, which Mr.
Healey used in his book.
When Tom McPherson published his book on Dodge, he seems to have used Mr.
Butler's figures, as he has no information from 1955 to about 1970. As
well, Mr. McPherson and Mr. Healey repeated the same errors/omissions, ie.
no 1939 Dodge Luxury Liner DeLuxe figures and no 1949 Dodge Coronet LWB
sedan figures.
Since then, due to the work of Jeffrey Godshall and the Chrysler Historical
Archives, "Collectible Aurtomobile" has been filling in the blanks from
1956.
As you may have surmised, I do have production figures on 1956-1964 Dodges,
plus Chrysler Corporation cars built for the U.S. market from 1965 through
1973.
For the 1957-59 Dodge wagons :
1957 :
D70 - 2-door Suburban - 7,163
D70 - 4-door Sierra * - 17,352
D71 - 4-door Custom Sierra * - 7,216
1958 :
LD3-L - 2-door Suburban - 1,300
LD3-L - 4-door Sierra * - 13,113
LD3-H - 4-door Custom Sierra * - 5,783
1959 :
MD3-L - 4-door Sierra * - 17,719
MD3-H - 4-door Custom Sierra * - 5,871
* - 2-seat and 3-seat wagons. Unlike Plymouth, DeSoto and Chrysler, Dodge
did not keep records on how many of each seating style were built, only
total body style figures.
One word on the published production figures - they are TOTAL production for
American and Canadian assembly plants through to the late 1970's. Starting
around 1976 (I forget the exact year at the moment) the published figures
are for cars built for the American market, and included American, Canadian
and Mexican plants..
Anyone interested in complete 1956 through 1961 Dodge figures (to cover the
Forward Look years), I would be happy to supply same. (I do not have
figures on the Canadian Plymouth-based Dodges. though.)
Bill
Vancouver, BC
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From: Bill K.
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:19 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] '57, '58 Dodge production
Anyone have a source for production figures by body style?
Krause doesn't show it, claims Dodge didn't keep track of it.
Just wondered how rare my '57 2-dr Custom Suburban is -
Bill K.
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