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Originally Posted by 28HopUp
I think I will give up on trying to count the number of cars in our project now
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Despite what I said earlier
I had some time to kill recently and decided to see if I could quantify how many SSPs our VIN Project may be able to identify using our current count of documented cars. Knowing that SSPs were generally produced in batches, I figured that we could add up all of the batches with known SSPs to come up with an estimate for how many SSPs may be grouped together using the information in our VIN Project.
It is important to note that there are three critical flaws with this logic:
- We know that civilian V8 coupes were sometimes thrown into the mix of known SSP batches. So far, we have seen this occur prior to or just after Ford ran a batch of specific DSO cars. So it is reasonable to believe that there are an unknown quantity of civilian cars as part of the consecutive unit number (called "CUN") batches containing SSPs.
- Our Project only lists CUN batches for 3 or more cars. We know that Ford also produced SSP Mustangs in singles or pairs, but it is uncertain how many SSPs were produced in single/double groups. Only known singles or doubles are included in the estimate.
- There are surely CUN batches that we have not identified yet as containing SSP Mustangs, so obviously those batches cannot be included in the estimate at this time.
So using this flawed estimate, by adding up all of the CUN batches we can account for roughly
8,350 SSP Mustangs so far.
Despite the flaws, this estimate provides a quick glimpse into how many cars our VIN Project may be able to document. This number will only increase as more SSP Mustangs turn up.