new 2/10/03
We had another argument where the SHO are today, It has been about a year and a half since I did census from the Owners directory. We had 582 folks in the owners directory Nov 2001, now we have 760. A net gain of about 160 folks, given we also remove about 2 owners a month.
So who has the most Gen 3 SHOs?
| Illinois | 48 |
| CAN | 47 |
| California | 44 |
| Ohio | 43 |
| Texas | 43 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 |
| Michigan | 37 |
| Florida | 34 |
| Massachusetts | 30 |
| Georgia | 26 |
| New York | 26 |
| Missouri | 24 |
| Virginia | 24 |
| Indiana | 22 |
| Minnesota | 22 |
| New Jersey | 20 |
| North Carolina | 18 |
| Oklahoma | 16 |
| Washington | 16 |
| Wisconsin | 16 |
| Tennessee | 15 |
| Kansas | 13 |
| Maryland | 13 |
| Kentucky | 12 |
| Arizona | 11 |
| Iowa | 10 |
| South Carolina | 9 |
| Oregon | 7 |
| Connecticut | 6 |
| Mississippi | 6 |
| Arkansas | 5 |
| Colorado | 5 |
| Louisiana | 5 |
| Rhode Island | 5 |
| Alabama | 4 |
| Nebraska | 4 |
| New Hampshire | 4 |
| Utah | 4 |
| Vermont | 4 |
| West Virginia | 3 |
| Alaska | 2 |
| Delaware | 2 |
| District of Columbia | 2 |
| Idaho | 2 |
| Montana | 2 |
| Nevada | 2 |
| New Mexico | 2 |
| South Dakota | 2 |
| AUS | 1 |
| NZ | 1 |
| Taiwan | 1 |
| UK | 1 |
| Maine | 1 |
| North Dakota | 1 |
| Wyoming | 1 |
What does it look like by year?
| Year | Count | Owners Directory | Ford Production |
| 1996 | 177 | 23% | 26% |
| 1997 | 284 | 37% | 51% |
| 1998 | 152 | 20% | 12% |
| 1999 | 142 | 19% | 11% |
Compared to reported Ford production SHOs the 96 and 97 years are under represented on our Owners Directory. The 97 in particular by a wide margin. Some of this may be normal attrition but I also have to conclude much of this is related to cam failures.
When folks want to put their car on the owners directory I started asking them what color their car is. We have Color information on 157 cars from the owners directory compared to 212 folk in the Color by year survey about a year ago. In theory these are different groups.
| Color | Count | Owners Directory | Color by Year |
| black | 59 | 38% | 31% |
| green | 16 | 10% | 12% |
| red | 31 | 20% | 23% |
| rose mist | 5 | 3% | 3% |
| silver | 27 | 17% | 23% |
| white | 19 | 12% | 8% |
| 157 | 100% | 100% |
I am not sure what to conclude from the different samples. Still I guess the results are reasonably consistent.
Thanks
Buford