<VV> Modified vs. stock Corvairs

[George Jones]

Why do you think he said "I love statistics"! An old statistics professor
once told me that statistics are every politicians friend, and the publics'
worst enemy.

On 5/1/07, airvair <airvair at richnet.net> wrote:
>
> Your statistics are skewed. That's a bit like saying that 100% of all
> people born before 1800 are dead, so it's better to be born after that.
>
> To properly address the REAL issue here, one would have to eliminate the
> vast numbers of cars that were bought, driven, and then scrapped as part
> of the "natural" cycle of production cars. What you have left are, for
> the purpose of labeling them, survivors. Some were saved as
> "collectable" cars, some as long-term ownership cars, some as
> resurrected cars that got a second chance (because someone liked what
> they saw), etc. Mostly these would have survived through to the late
> '70's or so, after "natural attrition" had eliminated most all of the
> "primary" (or first) group.
>
> It's only this "survivor" group, and it's percentage of attrition that
> would bear meaningful statistics. From those that are presently around,
> I think a good percentage are presently stock or near stock, simply from
> restorers' interests being in that direction. The existing modified cars
> are plentiful, but the question then becomes, how many are still around,
> compared to the total number that were modified from the "survivors"
> group? THAT is the statistical question that would be most meaningful to
> answer, but it is one that is probably impossible to document, let alone
> answer.
>
> -Mark
>
> Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 4/30/2007 8:25:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > corvairduval at cox.net writes:
> >
> > It is  the simple fact that once an original Corvair is modified, it
> will
> > always  be modified, or junked.
> >
> > So, to purists, original cars are nice  but  modifieds have begun the
> > slippery slope to the graveyard, never  to return to stock status.
> >
> > More un-modified Corvairs have been junked since 1959, than modified
> ones!
> > So if you want a Corvair to survive, modifying it is the way to go. (I
> love
> > statistics!) Of course, people have voted that way for years. If you
> want to
> > preserve a Corvair in a cocoon, keep it stock, otherwise, make it your
> own!
> > -Seth
> >
>



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