Some US statistics

[rdv]

Hi there,
The worldwide Spider registry actually contains 14,676 cars. Due to problems in the website programming the online list is NOT complete!

The latest vehicles or changes to register entries are again published as "Entry list since last update", as well as the known statistics have been re-created as of 10/2019.

As always, you can find all this (lists and the current statistics) here at chapter public downloads: https://www.fiatspider.de/node/84/5

Some interesting facts:
- USA is no.1 in nations ranking list with 6,177 cars
- 3 CSA Abarths but no Volumex car in the States
- Just 17% of all cars in California
- 8 cars in Puerto Rico (more than Hawaii with 5)
- 4 cars in Alaska (just only cars from the first Spider series AS-CS)
- Leading red cars in all States exept in Louisiana, Mississippi, Rhode Island (1 of 16 cars!) and Wyoming (1 of 13 cars!)

Some graphics as a teaser attached.




Have fun in reading and discovering the statistics.

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

[spiderdan]

Thank you doing this Ralf and sharing.

[stuartrubin]

This is interesting data. I am curious about how many Spiders were actually made in total and compare that to the number of surviving cars. Further, I'd like to compare that percentage to that of other "collectible" cars. So, maybe it's x percent of Spiders survived, and y percent of MGBs, and z percent of Corvettes...

Thanks for posting.

Stuart

[rdv]

Hi,

as requested the statistics "percentage of known cars of built cars".


Over all are actually 7,4% of all built Fiat 124 Spider listed in the database.

Bye, Ralf

[azruss]

I suspect many of you are in my category. My 1st 124 was a 70. During its lifetime, it was totaled and rebuilt using a 71 donor car (cut and replace LR quarter). The 71 was stripped for parts and crushed. When the 70 got too rusty to drive, it became a donor car to my current 80 FI and was also stripped, cut up and recycled. I also had 3 coupes that were stripped for parts as well.

[DustyDave]

So how does a car get added to this registry? By title records, registration records, other? I ask because mine is titled, but not yet registered as it is not yet road worthy, and wondering if it is already on the list or not?

[rdv]

So how does a car get added to this registry? By title records, registration records, other? I ask because mine is titled, but not yet registered as it is not yet road worthy, and wondering if it is already on the list or not?

Hi,
there is no automatism for a car entry in the worldwide spiderregistry.
There are different ways to register a car:
1) Use the registration form at:
https://www.fiatspider.de/der-spider/registry/enter
2) Just formless car information via email to: [url]mailto:fahrzeugregister@fiatpider.de[/url]
needed information: VIN/chassisno and/or license plate ID
3) My personal research in the web like ebay, copart etc. for cars with VIN information
4) Discovering the web for fiat spider pics (exotic countries, countries with lifetime license plates for a spider)
5) Requests to international Fiat Spider clubs for car data
6) official national websites for car research like Norway with 126 official registered cars

Any help to get more cars for the worldwide spider registries is appreciated!

Bye, Ralf
registry admin
https://fiatspider.de

[18Fiatsandcounting]

I suspect many of you are in my category. My 1st 124 was a 70. During its lifetime, it was totaled and rebuilt using a 71 donor car (cut and replace LR quarter). The 71 was stripped for parts and crushed. When the 70 got too rusty to drive, it became a donor car to my current 80 FI and was also stripped, cut up and recycled. I also had 3 coupes that were stripped for parts as well.

First off, my thanks to Ralf for his work on the Fiat database. Ausgezeichnet!

My answer to the quote above is similar. About a third of the Fiats that I've owned were donor cars bought for less than $100, and I used them for parts and the body was sent to the crusher as it was wrecked or hopelessly rusted or whatever even before I bought it. Of my current cars, my '69 was totaled by my father way back when I was about 7 years old, but another spider was found that donated its entire front end, and our car was rebuilt. My '71 was officially "salvaged" in terms of its DMV status when I bought it, meaning that the DMV thought it had been sent to the junk yard, but I was able to resurrect it and then just had to prove to a special DMV testing station that the car was indeed roadworthy before I could register the car (it passed this test).

I guess my point is that, for cars that are up to 50 years old, the VIN history is likely not straightforward for many of them.

-Bryan

[dshaw66]

Just added my 1978 CS1 to the registry. Located in Texas!

-danny

[rdv]

Danny I got it, thank you!

The registry is also a memorial place for all deceased or destroyed cars or junkyard finds. So if you have old documents with chassisno/VIN or badges or cutted out numbers or manufacture plates or photos of that etc. just let me know!

Every information could be interesting and every VIN/chassisno should be included into the registry!
Thanks a lot to all!

By Ralf
registry admin
https://www.fiatspider.de
fahrzeugregister (at) fiatspider.de