Production figures of the Fiat 124 Spider

[rdv]

Hi at all,
next gap could be closed: 124AS0019769 which was found at facebook. But it is only the Guarantee and Service Policy brochure. Is this car still existing?


Ciao, Ralf

[spiderdan]

Kool, sold here in Ottawa.
I know of one 69 here that was bought in Montreal. I will send the owner the pic in case it is his.
Long shot Ralf....

[gbsailing]

The car is in Washington Sate, it was purchased in Calif this spring after setting for 16 years in a shed. It is dark green, black top, and tan interior. Working on replacing all parts that has got bad from none use. Hopefully drivable this coming summer.

[rdv]

Hi at all,
next gap is closed! In the complete registration list of Denmark (168 registered Fiat 124 Spider) I found this one:
124BS10042258

Bye, Ralf

[rdv]

Hi again,
next gap is closed:
In the complete registration list of Norway (128 registered Fiat 124 Spider) I found this one:
124CS0065897 (Found at regnr.info from Norway in 2020.)

Any new car is appreciated! Just email or fill out at:
https://www.fiatspider.de/der-spider/registry/enter

Bye,
Ralf

[gregarious]

Hello,
I own a Dark Blue/Tan interior 1976 (I bought it Anchorage Alaska in 1985 from the first owner)

124CS1 0107846

48K miles and still beautiful and running well!

[wizard124]

Here is mine, CA 1980 fuel injected:
CS0 0172052

Warren

[rdv]

Hi
and thanks to all for your car registration! Actually 15,283 Spider are registrated.

Ciao, Ralf
(registry admin)
https//www.fiatspider.de

[rdv]

Hi at all,
next gap is closed: 124BS10057337! Found at youtube.com from 2017.
Actually the 16,162nd car in the worldwide Register.

Your car is missing? no problem, just register your car here:
https://www.fiatspider.de/worldwide-spider-register

Bye, Ralf

[Sigmond]

I have 124CS20144376 if that is useful also have another one in another garage I will have to see what the number is on that one.

[rdv]

I have 124CS20144376 if that is useful also have another one in another garage I will have to see what the number is on that one.

Hi Paolo,
car is added (offline). Next Upload in the beginning of September! A Picture would be great! Any other additions for the Register are welcome too! Thanks a lot!

Bye, Ralf

[rdv]

Hi again,
the next gap is closed. I got a carlist from John Erskine with more than 30 new, but mostly wrecked cars:
124BS10061801 - found at wrecking list of FIAT Rescue League (08/2020)

Thanks to John and all other supporters! Actually we have documented 16,246 cars in 95 nations all over the world.
All cars, all statistics at:
https://www.fiatspider.de/worldwide-spider-register

Ciao, Ralf

[RRoller123]

Do we have an estimate of how many are actually running and on the road? Curious.

[rdv]

Hi,
from the documented 16,250 Register cars are:
~ 400 scrapped cars
~ 400 Copart auction cars
~ 200 other parts cars etc.
So ~15,250 documented cars are running!

In 2019 i could include 1,850 new or updated cars. In the same period I found ~ 1,500 not clearly indentifiable cars on top (not included into the Register). So ~55% of all my found 2019 cars are in the register, 45% probably not!

So this CAN mean: the Register cars are 55% of all cars still existing? That would mean: there are approx. 29,500 cars still alive.
Is this realistic?

Another calculation:
We got ~2,900 german cars listed. One of the leading german Spider Parts distributors named years ago 20,000 customers - I think he said GERMAN customers. Let's correct this amount and subtract the international customers plus customers with sold cars etc. = 50% of the 20,000?! If 10,000 is the right choice, then the Register counts less than one third of all german cars.
International i would estimate less than one third.

So if we multiply the register amount (the running ones!) by 3, we come to an amount of 45,750 cars!!!
So my personal range makes 29,500-47,750 Spider worldwide still alive, which means: ~15-24% of all!!!

Whats your opinion? Anyone else?

Ciao, Ralf

[RRoller123]

Thanks for that analysis, that is pretty cool. Based upon my observation here in New England, the population is pretty small, I would expect that the estimated survived AND running number is probably a little high, and that a lot of the cars that we think are running are probably actually not. But that is just my gut feeling. No data behind it.

They are as rare as hen's teeth when I get out on the road, I think I have passed by literally one other one, randomly, in 9 years, and I would guess that there are probably only 20 or 30 or so running here in New England? Where they were pretty popular back in the day.

But more is better, so I hope you are right!