Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

[Sandman]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Harry, do you know how many were shipped out of the country?

[Quickdraw]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Harry, do you know how many were shipped out of the country?

What country? From memory I know Mexico only got 503, the rest would have gone to Canada. Cars purchased here and shipped overseas would count as a sale in the state purchased.

[EllisonCal]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Yes, Harry, I found this interesting too. I always thought my Tbird was one in a thousand, now I know it is one in 940! :-)

[Quickdraw]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Yes, Harry, I found this interesting too. I always thought my Tbird was one in a thousand, now I know it is one in 940! :-)

We can do better than that (grin) - there were only 18 black 2005 Thunderbirds sold in SC. And only eight had the sand interior.

[007Cruiser]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Harry... How many 007s went to New Jersey?

[2K2BIRD]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

I knew that most per capita thing sounded out of character for ultra conservative Oklahoma. Harry just confirmed something that I thought I remembered from back in the day:

<!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Of the 2026 sold in Oklahoma 1,192 went to "The Hertz Corporation" and 54 more went to "Legacy F-M/Hertz".

That only leaves 780 going to private owners. That's an average of just over 10 per county if they were evenly distributed throughout the state. Of course, since more than half of the state's population lives in the OKC and Tulsa metropolitan areas, you can bet the vast majority would have been found there.

I think Hertz titled a lot of their cars in Oklahoma because of our favorable tax situation verses states such as California, Arizona and Florida. Not sure about corporate sales, but private sales in Oklahoma are charged excise tax on new vehicles that is less than half what sales tax is in most states.

[Quickdraw]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Harry... How many 007s went to New Jersey?

Gene, 29 went to New Jersey...

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[wcoates]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

I knew that most per capita thing sounded out of character for ultra conservative Oklahoma. Harry just confirmed something that I thought I remembered from back in the day:

<!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Of the 2026 sold in Oklahoma 1,192 went to "The Hertz Corporation" and 54 more went to "Legacy F-M/Hertz".

Michigan and Florida are no surprise. Now Oklahoma???????!!!!!!!

Now we know the rest of the story!!!! Sure had me scratching my head.

[Chuck]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Cool data - Thanks Harry!! - I got a NM from CA :-) And my DSB is one of the 683 in CT. and is still there. I thought I've seen most of the ones in CT - not even close - wonder where they are hiding

[007Cruiser]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Thanks, Harry. What a great breakdown! Mine was one of the three delivered to North Brunswick. I had two to choose from.

[FEsTbird]

Re: Most 02-05 Thunderbirds by State and Population

Maybe this data proves that we have too many people in California! Note that although the most T-birds were sold in California--the overwhelming number of people meant that the people per car is high. The state is big geographically, too--hardly see other T-birds on the road.