The Complete 3000GT Production Numbers by Color

[atarirx]

I've seen a lot of posts through the years asking about how many of each color 3000GT were made. The Stealth figures have been readily available for a long time and there is a VR-4 list out there but I've never seen a complete 3000GT list and I think it would be great if it were all in one place, so here is a list I put together from a few other posts here and on different sites and some of my own VIN searches. These are based on CAPS figures and obviously not 100% accurate compared to what was actually sold but it is still a good place to get a general idea as to how rare your car really is.

I'm missing a lot of N/A figures, so if you've got one that's not on here yet please run the VIN through one of the online databases available (3kgt.com or ypass.net), post your numbers and I'll update the list. If I've got something wrong let me know and I'll fix it, I did not run all of these myself and I'm sure several of them are incorrect. Please note that the color names are as printed in the sales brochures each year and may differ from what comes up from the VIN search (or what you think your car color should be called.) For a couple of the years I've found colors in the searches that aren't listed in the brochure, like Panama green in '98, so I've added them but not sure if they should be there or not.


1991:
Fiji Blue Metallic - base: ? SL: 534 VR4: 214
Jamaican Blue Metallic - base: ? SL: 334 VR4: 129
Monza Red - base: 61 SL: 1724 VR4: 1242
Morocco Red Pearl - base: 16 SL: 700 VR4: 293
Nairobi Beige Metallic - base: ? SL: 336 VR4: 81
Glacier White Pearl - base: ? SL: 1006 VR4: 760
Sable Black - base: ? SL: 888 VR4: 684
Albany Black Pearl* - VR4: 1 (?)


1992:
Glacier White Pearl - base: 261 SL: 1510 VR4 983
Albany Black Pearl - base: ? SL: 1003 VR4: 787
Monza Red - base: 434 SL: 2092 VR4: 1478
Morocco Red Pearl - base: 95 SL: 426 VR4: 344
Ascot Silver Metallic - base: 68 SL: 508 VR4: 294
Fiji Blue Metallic - base: 38 SL: 231 VR4: 214
Panama Green Pearl - base: ? SL: 735 VR4: 460
Sandstone Gray Metallic - base: 116 SL: 460 VR4: 387

1993:
Panama Green Pearl - base: 1338 SL: 951 VR4:566
Sandstone Gray Metallic - base: 318 SL: 264 VR4: 136
Morocco Red Pearl - base: 252 SL: 246 VR4: 122
Caracas Red - base: 1599 SL: 1348 VR4: 868
Zurich White Pearl - base: 1092 SL: 912 VR4: 504
Albany Black Pearl - base: 762 SL: 589 VR4: 398
Monza Red* - VR4: 1 (?)

1994:
Caracas Red - base: 2379 SL: 1422 VR4: 383
Sable Black Pearl - base: 1495 SL: 787 VR4: 264
Martinique Yellow Pearl - base: 0 SL: 319 VR4: 155
Sorrento Red Pearl - base: 0 SL: 270 VR4: 68
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 0 SL: 495 VR4: 126
Zurich White Pearl - base: 2291 SL: 1047 VR4: 315
Panama Green Pearl - base: 2674 SL: 1273 VR4: 339

1995:
Panama Green Pearl - base: 1565 SL: 815 VR4: 200
Caracas Red - base: 1337 SL: 1304 VR4: 409
Sorrento Red Pearl - base: 0 SL: 211 VR4: 55
Sable Black - base: 2091 SL: 893 VR4: 280
Martinique Yellow Pearl - base: 114 SL: 85 VR4: 42
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 246 SL: 144 VR4: 49
Glacier White Pearl - base: 2041 SL: 793 VR4: 276

1995 Spyder:
Martinique Yellow Pearl - SL: 6 VR4: 14
Glacier White Pearl - SL: 95 VR4: 51
Caracas Red - SL: 188 VR4: 326
Sable Black - SL: 86 VR4: 140

1996:
Caracas Red - base: 962 SL: 249 VR4: 90
Belgium Green Pearl - base: 35 SL: 2 VR4: 1
Glacier White Pearl - base: 816 SL: 242 VR4: 76
Panama Green Pearl - base: 513 SL: 130 VR4: 50
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 52 SL: 29 VR4: 7
Superior Amethyst Pearl - base: 139 SL: 43 VR4: 19
Solano Black Pearl - base: 716 SL: 181 VR4: 71

1996 Spyder:
Caracas Red - SL: 152 VR4: 184
Glacier White Pearl - SL: 115 VR4: 76
Solano Black Pearl - SL: 98 VR4: 84
Panama Green Pearl - SL: 0 VR4: 2 (neither known to exist)

1997:
Caracas Red (Firestorm Red) - base: 1174 SL: 384 VR4: 166
Belgium Green Pearl - base: 81 SL: 18 VR4: 9
Glacier White Pearl - base: 1122 SL: 361 VR4: 110
Panama Green Pearl - base: 541 SL: 162 VR4: 71
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 65 SL: 23 VR4: 4
Solano Black Pearl - base: 1072 SL: 337 VR4: 150

1998:
New Zealand Green Pearl - Base: 263 SL: 567 VR4:20
Caracas Red - base: 934 SL: 462 VR4: 70
Glacier White Pearl - base: 897 SL: 567 VR4: 70
Solano Black Pearl - base: 822 SL: 458 VR4: 71
Panama Green* - SL: 124

1999:
New Zealand Green Pearl - base: 133 SL: 61 VR4: 16
Caracas Red - base: 571 SL: 307 VR4: 82
Glacier White Pearl - base: 655 SL: 392 VR4: 86
Solano Black Pearl - base: 577 SL: 284 VR4: 103









Total VR4s by color:

Belgium Green Pearl - 10
Superior Amethyst Pearl - 19
New Zealand Green Pearl - 36
Nairobi Beige Metallic - 81
Sorrento Red Pearl - 123
Jamaican Blue Metallic - 129
Danube Blue Pearl - 186
Martinique Yellow Pearl - 211
Fiji Blue Metallic - 238
Ascot Silver Metallic - 294
Solano Black Pearl - 479
Sandstone Grey Metallic - 523
Morocco Red Pearl - 759
Zurich White Pearl - 819
Panama Green Pearl - 1686
Caracas Red - 2578
Glacier White Pearl - 2488
Black (Sable & Albany)* - 2554
Monza Red - 2721


*
Sable Black Pearl (1994) - 264
Sable Black (1991 & 1995) - 1104
Albany Black Pearl (1992 & 1993) - 1186


Even simpler:

Red: 5299 (Monza + Caracas)
Black: 3033 (Albany + Sable + Solano)
White: 3307 (Zurich + Glacier)
Green: 1732 (Panama + Belgium + New Zealand)
Burgundy: 882 (Morocco + Sorrento)
Grey: 523 (Sandstone)
Blue: 424 (Fiji + Danube)
Silver: 294 (Ascot)
Yellow: 211 (Martinique)
Turquoise: 129 (Jamaican)
Beige: 81 (Nairobi)
Purple: 19 (Amethyst)

[J-Groove]

Thank you for taking the time to do this.

-John

[IPD]

cool. so as i suspected, olive & purple are the rarest...by a significant margin. 1 belgian green in 1996...that's a keeper. not sure how many tt's in belgian/olive were made in 1996...but i'm sure they're equally rare.

that would be rather cool if someone had every single one of them from 1996 in his/her stable.

[Hans@GZP]

Here is the olive green 96 VR4 in a salvage auction

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Hans91GT/photo4.jpg (http://s12.photobucket.com/user/Hans91GT/media/photo4.jpg.html)

[IPD]

that's just sad. so very sad.

[DrGonzo]

Here is one of the 96 Amethyst Purple VR-4's. 1 of 13 exactly identical

Found it in the junk yard last year. I wanted to save it but LKQ does not allow full cars to be purchased. It was stripped within a couple days....:(

http://3s.gonzoinc.com/albums/userpics/10002/photo%2031.JPG

http://3s.gonzoinc.com/albums/userpics/10002/photo%2021.JPG

http://3s.gonzoinc.com/albums/userpics/10002/photo%2011.JPG

http://3s.gonzoinc.com/albums/userpics/10002/photo%203%7E0.JPG

http://3s.gonzoinc.com/albums/userpics/10002/photo%2041.JPG

Here is what Story teller had to say:

Your 1996 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 is one of 315 that received VIN numbers. Based on the order of the serial numbers, your car was the 153rd out of the 315 that were made that year.

Your car was built in the 3rd week of July 1995. Of the 6096 vehicles made at the Nayoga plant, your car was the 2686th vehicle to be created that year.

There are 18 other cars that were made with both the same interior and exterior color. There are 19 cars with the same exterior color and 63 cars with the same interior color.


Other Numbers
Exactly Identical (*) 13
Mechanically Identical (**) 206
Same Model+Option Package 280
Same Model+Build Date 11
* Model, Interior & Exterior color, Equipment, Chassis
** Model, Equipment, Chassis

[J-Groove]

Makes me want to cry. :(

-John

[IPD]

yeah. rob's wife would have LOVED to have gotten her hands on that...back when it was minty.

[DuTTch]

I've seen a lot of posts through the years asking about how many of each color 3000GT were made. The Stealth figures have been readily available for a long time and there is a VR-4 list out there but I've never seen a complete 3000GT list and I think it would be great if it were all in one place, so here is a list I put together from a few other posts here and on different sites and some of my own VIN searches. These are based on CAPS figures and obviously not 100% accurate compared to what was actually sold but it is still a good place to get a general idea as to how rare your car really is.

I'm missing a lot of N/A figures, so if you've got one that's not on here yet please run the VIN through one of the online databases available (3kgt.com or ypass.net), post your numbers and I'll update the list. If I've got something wrong let me know and I'll fix it, I did not run all of these myself and I'm sure several of them are incorrect. Please note that the color names are as printed in the sales brochures each year and may differ from what comes up from the VIN search (or what you think your car color should be called.) For a couple of the years I've found colors in the searches that aren't listed in the brochure, like Panama green in '98, so I've added them but not sure if they should be there or not.


1991:
Fiji Blue Metallic - base: ? SL: 534 VR4: 214
Jamaican Blue Metallic - base: ? SL: 334 VR4: 129
Monza Red - base: ? SL: ? VR4: 1242
Morocco Red Pearl - base: ? SL: 700 VR4: 293
Nairobi Beige Metallic - base: ? SL: 336 VR4: 81
Glacier White Pearl - base: ? SL: ? VR4: 760
Sable Black - base: ? SL: 888 VR4: 684
Albany Black Pearl (?) - VR4: 1 (?)


1992:
Glacier White Pearl - base: ? SL: 1510 VR4 983
Albany Black Pearl - base: ? SL: 1003 VR4: 787
Monza Red - base: ? SL: ? VR4: 1478
Morocco Red Pearl - base: 1322 SL: 426 VR4: 344
Ascot Silver Metallic - base: ? SL: 508 VR4: 294
Fiji Blue Metallic - base: 38 SL: ? VR4: 214
Panama Green Pearl - base: ? SL: 735 VR4: 460
Sandstone Gray Metallic - base: ? SL: 460 VR4: 387


1993:
Panama Green Pearl - base: ? SL: 951 VR4:566
Sandstone Gray Metallic - base: 318 SL: 264 VR4: 136
Morocco Red Pearl - base: ? SL: ? VR4: 122
Caracas Red - base: ? SL: ? VR4: 868
Zurich White Pearl - base: 1092 SL: 912 VR4: 504
Albany Black Pearl - base: 762 SL: ? VR4: 398
Monza Red (?) - VR4: 1 (?)


1994:
Caracas Red - base: 2379 SL: 1422 VR4: 383
Sable Black Pearl - base: 1495 SL: ? VR4: 264
Martinique Yellow Pearl - base: 0 SL: 319 VR4: 155
Sorrento Red Pearl - base: 0 SL: 270 VR4: 68
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 0 SL: 495 VR4: 126
Zurich White Pearl - base: 2291 SL: 1047 VR4: 315
Panama Green Pearl - base: 2674 SL: 1273 VR4: 339


1995:
Panama Green Pearl - base: 1565 SL: 815 VR4: 200
Caracas Red - base: 1337 SL: 1304 VR4: 409
Sorrento Red Pearl - base: 0 SL: 211 VR4: 55
Sable Black - base: ? SL: ? VR4: 280
Martinique Yellow Pearl - base: 114 SL: 85 VR4: 42
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 246 SL: 144 VR4: 49
Glacier White Pearl - base: 2041 SL: 793 VR4: 276

1995 Spyder:
Martinique Yellow Pearl - SL: 6 VR4: 14
Glacier White Pearl - SL: 95 VR4: 51
Caracas Red - SL: 188 VR4: 326
Sable Black - SL: 86 VR4: 140


1996:
Caracas Red - base: ? SL: 249 VR4: 90
Belgium Green Pearl - base: 35 SL: ? VR4: 1
Glacier White Pearl - base: 816 SL: ? VR4: 76
Panama Green Pearl - base: 513 SL: 136 VR4: 50
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 52 SL: 29 VR4: 7
Superior Amethyst Pearl - base: 139 SL: 43 VR4: 19
Solano Black Pearl - base: 716 SL: ? VR4: 71

1996 Spyder:
Caracas Red - SL: 152 VR4: 184
Glacier White Pearl - SL: 115 VR4: 76
Solano Black Pearl - SL: 98 VR4: 84
Panama Green Pearl - SL: 0 VR4: 2 (neither actually exist)


1997:
Caracas Red (Firestorm Red) - base: 1174 SL: 384 VR4: 166
Belgium Green Pearl - base: 81 SL: ? VR4: 9
Glacier White Pearl - base: 1122 SL: 361 VR4: 110
Panama Green Pearl - base: 541 SL: ? VR4: 71
Danube Blue Pearl - base: 65 SL: ? VR4: 4
Solano Black Pearl - base: 1072 SL: ? VR4: 150

1998:
New Zealand Green Pearl - Base: 263 SL: 567 VR4:20
Caracas Red - base: 934 SL: 462 VR4: 70
Glacier White Pearl - base: 897 SL: 567 VR4: 70
Solano Black Pearl - base: 822 SL: ? VR4: 71
Panama Green (?) - SL: 124 (?)

1999:
New Zealand Green Pearl - base: 133 SL: 61 VR4: 16
Caracas Red - base: 571 SL: 307 VR4: 82
Glacier White Pearl - base: 655 SL: 392 VR4: 86
Solano Black Pearl - base: 577 SL: 284 VR4: 103



Total VR-4s by color:

Belgium Green Pearl - 10
Superior Amethyst Pearl - 19
New Zealand Green Pearl - 36
Nairobi Beige Metallic - 81
Sorrento Red Pearl - 123
Jamaican Blue Metallic - 129
Danube Blue Pearl - 186
Martinique Yellow Pearl - 211
Fiji Blue Metallic - 238
Ascot Silver Metallic - 294
Solano Black Pearl - 479
Sandstone Grey Metallic - 523
Morocco Red Pearl - 759
Zurich White Pearl - 819
Panama Green Pearl - 1686
Caracas Red - 2578
Glacier White Pearl - 2488
Black (Sable & Albany)* - 2554
Monza Red - 2721

*
Sable Black Pearl (1994) - 264
Sable Black (1991 & 1995) - 1104
Albany Black Pearl (1992 & 1993) - 1186


Even simpler VR-4 numbers:

Red: 5299 (Monza + Caracas)
Black: 3033 (Albany + Sable + Solano)
White: 3307 (Zurich + Glacier)
Green: 1732 (Panama + Belgium + New Zealand)
Burgundy: 882 (Morocco + Sorrento)
Grey: 523 (Sandstone)
Blue: 424 (Fiji + Danube)
Silver: 294 (Ascot)
Yellow: 211 (Martinique)
Turquoise: 129 (Jamaican)
Beige: 81 (Nairobi)
Purple: 19 (Amethyst)


We need to revisit the Spyder numbers of what was supposed to be the production projected as reflected above and what was actually produced by ASC!

3000GT Spyder Production History (http://frankpearson.com/spyder/index.html)

[atarirx]

We need to revisit the Spyder numbers of what was supposed to be the production projected as reflected above and what was actually produced by ASC!

3000GT Spyder Production History (http://frankpearson.com/spyder/index.html)

I know the Spyder numbers are way off seeing as only 1034 were ever sold, but even using Frank's site its hard to figure out the exact numbers broken down by colors. If you are up to the challenge post the results and I'll update the list!

[atarirx]

I updated the list again, now have all the production numbers for the rarer of the 2nd gen colors 94-97 except for the Belgium Green SLs. Can anyone help out with that one? Blue, yellow, and Sorrento red are complete. Still need numbers for plenty of more common colors too, just haven't spent much time searching the classifieds for them. If you've got one I'm missing please post!

[daerdevil_1987]

If I'm not mistaken, one of the 97 olive green owners, painted his car blue :/

[atarirx]

There is a guy local to me that has one of the 97 olive green VR4s and he was also planning on painting it blue until we told him how rare the color is, now he is going to keep it as-is. Close call, he had no idea what he had.

[stealthify]

There is a guy local to me that has one of the 97 olive green VR4s and he was also planning on painting it blue until we told him how rare the color is, now he is going to keep it as-is. Close call, he had no idea what he had.

Is he a member here yet? If you ever get the chance, you should tell him to post up. Maybe we should start a registry for the rarer colors, help keep them in good hands.

[Vira]

Here is one of the 96 Amethyst Purple VR-4's. 1 of 13 exactly identical

Found it in the junk yard last year. I wanted to save it but LKQ does not allow full cars to be purchased. It was stripped within a couple days....:(

http://3s.gonzoinc.com/albums/userpics/10002/photo%2031.JPG

[QUOTE=J-Groove;240369]Makes me want to cry. :(

-John

:(

Vira

[IPD]

that's pretty much what rob's wife would have wanted--in mint condition, of course.

[atarirx]

Is he a member here yet? If you ever get the chance, you should tell him to post up. Maybe we should start a registry for the rarer colors, help keep them in good hands.

He is a member on 3Si, I don't think he is on this site at all. He was actually thinking of selling it, fortunately he wants a lot for it so it will probably stay put for now.

[stealthify]

He is a member on 3Si, I don't think he is on this site at all. He was actually thinking of selling it, fortunately he wants a lot for it so it will probably stay put for now.

Gotcha, sounds like he knows what he has now. Good job keeping it from going blue!

[atarirx]

1995 production numbers are now complete. Funny that the last one I was missing (black base) ended up being the highest production for all colors and trims that year. Guess I hadn't been looking very hard for it.

[sergechronos]

1994:
Danube Blue Pearl - VR4: 126


Heartbreaking to see in black and white. Or..blue and white in this case. :(

[atarirx]

'97 and '98 #s are complete now and added a few other random ones I was missing.

[VR4Rob]

Thanks for posting this!

Sorry if I missed this but where did you gather this info? I had always remembered from my research that there was only 1 '97 VR-4 produced that was B34. God help me if I find that one (or one of the 4).

The Amethyst in the junk yard car is a knife to the heart! I looked for years to find one for Dani but never could find a decent one.

[atarirx]

Most of the VR4 #s come from a previous post and I've been running VINs through the storyteller as I have time to update and add in the SLs and bases. The figures are generated from CAPS and may not reflect actual cars sold, such as the green 96 Spyders which do not actually exist. It is quite possible that there was only one blue 97 VR4 sold and not four. This only serves as a rough guide but gives everyone a pretty good idea as to how rare a specific color is.

[Emilie@GZP]

Here is the olive green 96 VR4 in a salvage auction

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/Hans91GT/photo4.jpg (http://s12.photobucket.com/user/Hans91GT/media/photo4.jpg.html)

IIRC, when we ran the VIN, there were 2, not 1 like he has listed above.

[Emilie@GZP]

We need to revisit the Spyder numbers of what was supposed to be the production projected as reflected above and what was actually produced by ASC!

3000GT Spyder Production History (http://frankpearson.com/spyder/index.html)

Yea, the spyder numbers are all wrong. I had the correct list of exterior colors at one point, I'll have to try to dig it up again.

[Jeff V.]

A lot of the numbers are wrong. The Spyders, a whole block of missing VINs from 91, the missing 95 Stealth TTs, and some incorrect counts from later on. There were missing VINs from 97 too. It affected the count of the blue and belgium green cars especially. I've got all the details at home.

Bottom line is, the storyteller is an educated guess at best. Pretty much any time someone says "my car is 1 of x" they really should be putting an * after it.

*Based on incomplete VIN data.

[atarirx]

At the beginning of this thread a very wise man posted the following disclaimer of sorts:


These are based on CAPS figures and obviously not 100% accurate compared to what was actually sold but it is still a good place to get a general idea as to how rare your car really is.
... If I've got something wrong let me know and I'll fix it, I did not run all of these myself and I'm sure several of them are incorrect.

So take it as a rough estimate but nothing more. Just trying to help out here...

Jeff, if you have better data for the 97s please let me know, I'm well aware that those numbers may be way off and would love to update them to make the list more accurate. Thanks!

[hated]

1992 Sandstone Gray Metallic - VR4: 387

Nice! I wonder which one I am?

[atarirx]

Its been a while since I did any updates to the list, I have now completed the numbers for 93 and 94. That leaves only a few from 91 and 92 to finish it off.

[bluzvr4]

i thought the blue in 94 and the blue in 95 was different?

[sergechronos]

i thought the blue in 94 and the blue in 95 was different?

Blue in 94/95 (and the rare few from 97) was the same. There were two different blues used on first gens: Fiji blue and Jamaican I believe.


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[bluzvr4]

i thought it was danube blue and marina

[sergechronos]

Same color, different name. Which it was called depended on region. Can't remember which goes with which

[bluzvr4]

right on. i was thrown off because i was always told my 94 (danube blue) was a one year option.

[sergechronos]

Understandable. But alas, was the same blue for 94-97. Just very few of the 96 and 97s

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[IPD]

Firewall says it all. ;)

[atarirx]

Looked up a VIN for a '91 VR4 that had been on eBay and it doesn't come out with a paint code: JA3XE74C9MY003000
In the database it just says it is one of 285 "no color info" 1991 3000GT VR4s. Anyone else seen one of these? It appears to be Fiji Blue. It has an Autocheck history so the VIN is likely legit.

[stealthify]

The VIN is legit, but the database is missing a lot of data, including the paint codes for some vehicles.

[GREEN LANTERN 02]

Hey, I got a 1998 VR4 in New Zealand Pearl Green with Tan interior with 72k miles on it in excellent condition. Will post pictures of it later.7066[ATTACH=CONFIG]

[atarirx]

Updated the list again. The numbers for SLs are now all complete, all that leaves are some bases for 91 and 92, which I'm realizing are very rare cars with low production numbers. I never realized that all bases came wingless until 1993 model year.

[Elderloc]

There were 7 danube blue VR4 made in 1997. I know where one of them is it had 52k on it last time I saw it. The guy wouldn't sell it thing sits in his garage on a mini lift with a cover. It's his baby.

[atarirx]

There were 7 danube blue VR4 made in 1997. I know where one of them is it had 52k on it last time I saw it. The guy wouldn't sell it thing sits in his garage on a mini lift with a cover. It's his baby.

Do you happen to know the VIN? It is quite possible that I somehow reversed the blue VR4 counts for 96 and 97. This list isn't an exact science.

[leadfoot]

My 97 VR4 in Solano Black Pearl, one of 150 made in that color that year, 187xxx on the clock, still runs strong.
My 97 SL ATX in Glacier White Pear one of 364 made in that color that year, 274,462 miles on the clock still going strong.