I love this series (well I write it…so those were wasted letters) and 1962 was a mix bag of cars. The beginning of the space-age, muscle car era and the ending of the classic, heavy, finned cars.
For example take a look at the 1962 Imperial:
You can still see the fins, but a little space-age flare with the taillights.
Now the 1962 Thunderbird:
Fins are almost gone and now see the space-age/turbine round taillights.
So the leader for 1962 was Chevrolet topping the charts with 2,061, 677 units produced. That is 600,000 more cars than it’s nearest competitor Ford that came in second with 1,476,031 and for had nearly 1 million more than the 3rd place manufacture Pontiac with 521,933 units. Rambler was 4th with 442,346 followed by Oldsmobile with 428,853.
The rest of the field looked like this:
Buick – 399,526
Mercury – 314,366
Plymouth – 339,527
Dodge – 240,484
Cadillac – 160,840
Chrysler – 128,921
Studebaker – 89,318
Lincoln – 31,061
Imperial – 14,337
Checker -1,230
Metropolitan – 420
Thanks for reading.
Tim
