Production Info

[Sunline Fan]

I realized about an hour ago that I never had come up with a grand total of all the coaches I have recorded.

So of course, I had to get right on that!

Keep in mind maybe .5% of the following percentage is based on speculation. In some years, like in the mid-to-late '90's, they would build in batches of 20 or 40 at a time, so if I have a, say, 1950 and another one 15 units later, I think it's safe to assume it was filled with 1950's in between. The amount I speculate will only exponentially increase as I get more VIN's in there to allow me to make the conclusions.

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2414

Based on Dale Zimmerman's rough count of the total ever built, this would mean I have roughly 3.7% of all Sunline's recorded!

The year breakdown is as follows, in case you're interested:

1965..................0
1966..................0
1967..................0
1968..................0
1969..................0
1970..................0
1971..................1
1972..................0
1973..................1
1974..................0
1975..................2
1976..................1
1977..................3
1978..................5
1979..................5
1980..................2
1981..................7
1982..................12
1983..................46
1984..................57
1985..................16
1986..................20
1987..................89
1988..................35
1989..................18
1990..................16
1991..................15
1992..................33
1993..................36
1994..................68
1995..................57
1996..................100
1997..................494
1998..................248
1999..................27
2000..................11
2001..................67
2002..................38
2003..................32
2004..................186
2005..................97
2006..................231
2007..................338

I do have a lot of pictures for various unidentified coaches, but I also don't have pictures for all of them with VIN's, so it probably evens out pretty well. I do have a stronger representation of the older ones (~'77-'85), but with that age, it's more common for them to be listed on Craigs list or some other form of advertising that is less likely to include the VIN.

Jon