CS Registry Update

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With the help of Stevehose who gathered and scanned the CS Registry member lists, I have organized the VIN listing in an .xlsx spreadsheet. What was called a registry is actually just a membership list, if you didn't pay your dues your VIN was removed from the list.

The total VIN count over the years is about 750 vehicles of which 425 were U.S./N.A. VINs. However, by 1995 the U.S. VIN count was down to only 130 VINs which apparently reflects the exodus of members from that site. Also interesting is our e9 Registry has 347 U.S./N.A. listings today and 56 VINs from the CS Registry are still with us in the e9 Registry including 20 owners, it was great to see so many familiar names. I will eventually add the 300 or so missing U.S. VINs to our Registry in the "Seen in Ad/Other" section. Most of these coupes must still survive but the owners have either lost interest, aren't aware of us or just haven't updated our registry.

If you want to know if your coupe was in the CS Registry send me a PM and I can provide location as well.
 
Hi Chris,

Is the the registry that Art and Marilyn Wegweiser put together in the '90s ? I put my mom's coupe on that list

John in Montreal
 
Nice work!

So you are not really retiring, you are just changing to full time VIN hunter for the E9-Driven site!!
 
Ouch, I prefer not to be considered a "VIN hunter" as that term has been used by someone else on this site. :)

As far as retired, two days to go! See you tonight perhaps.

Chris
 
Congrats on completing the rat race!

HB Chris said:
Ouch, I prefer not to be considered a "VIN hunter" as that term has been used by someone else on this site. :)

As far as retired, two days to go! See you tonight perhaps.

Chris
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Thanks Steve. The younger you are when you retire the longer you live. I am going to put that belief into practice. My only problem is that my wife thinks there won't be any more UPS deliveries to the house. Boy is she wrong!

:)
 
Stan and Chris,

Is there any way we can denote those as gone forever? There has always been a mystery regarding actual production whereby collectors stayed away in part by the mystery of misunderstanding there were many more produced than not.

If other marques have a loss rate of 50% and of those remaining and lost each year has got to be a smaller number. As the number dwindles, the value goes up for those remaining. Conversely, we all know there is a number of coupes restored each year as they become more valuable which works in a positive direction for values for everyone.

I know I'm being picky, but we all want to be factual. Otherwise collectors are going to be looking for 1975 coupes vs early chrome bumpers. ( More 72's)

We've all seen those wild claims in ads; perhaps a little objective sanity is in order to gain a bit of civility or clarity.

P.S. I know it's a pain for data entry too... keep up the good work guys!
 
Actually, gone forever is a choice. Now, being able to reporthow many may be a new function but should not be too hard to sort out
 
... we should be able to indicate a total of "gone forever" coupes in the summary, I will put this on the to-do list.

As for chrome vs. 5mph bumpers I would be afraid to take this one on because the data users enter really cannot be verify. Probably the only solution is to email BMW and ask about specific VINs. There is a link to the BMW historian under "BMW E9 Data Request" that will send you to the right person to ask.

Sorry for being scarce for so long, the last 24 months have been really tough. At least we've kept the registry running at full steam.

Your faithful registrar,
 
I have a separate database on N.A./U.S. coupe VINS. We have 86 or 7.4% of the 1167 2800CS built. We have 267 or 10.4% of the 2557 3.0CS built. Combined total of 353 or 9.5%.

Four-speeds outnumber automatics 211 to 142 but the `74 coupes have 27 4-speeds to 40 autos. Of the U.S. 3.0CS 200 (11.7% or 200/1713) are small bumper and 67 (7.9% or 67/844) are big bumper. The greatest survivors from registry data only are `73 4-speeds with 76 out of 583 or 13%.

And from the old CS Registry, there are 427 U.S. coupes of the 494 that are now unaccounted for and many of those must still exist. 67 coupes however from the CS Registry are on the current e9 Registry. On my to-do list is to add the missing 427 to our registry (and add formulas to the .xlsx spreadsheet to track sub-categories and percents!).

Chris
 
JJ and Jerry,

From the November database only 26 are registered as Gone Forever or Parts Cars which is interesting.

And keep those VINs coming in!
 
Very cool. I'm not normally a numbers cruncher, but it sounds great to be able to discuss logically how many are left, etc.

IF the gone forever is accurate to a great degree, the number of coupes that are getting restored ( in varying degress) has to be increasing. I know we try hard anyway!

From a market standpoint, the number of unrestored coupes has to be dwindling therefore causing an increase of sorts in their value. Tail wagging the dog so to speak. I know it happens to Porsches- 911 s vs. T; then they tend to equalize with a given spread of value relative to features or originality ( survivor).

Thanks again to you both.
 
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