There have been a few updates to the 9000 series registry since I last posted, and so I re-ran the numbers for GT5 production today and came up with the following:
Staying with my assumption of VIN 9100 being the earliest possible GT5 (and we know 9374 was the last before the transition to the GT5-S) we get the following:
9374 - 9100 = 274 cars
If you then add mine and the Butler/Zembashis car, there is a maximum of 276 cars that could have been produced. Then we have to subtract the number of GTS, L and various racing Panteras built during that same time, because these other models were produced concurrently within this VIN range. I have found 46 non-GT5 cars so far. Therefore, my current best calculation of the maximum possible number of GT5 Panteras is as follows:
276 - 46 = 230 maximum possible GT5 production
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