I have felt for a long time that that <1k production number for the B4V has to be BS.
I still see way too many on the road today for it to be true. I know it's true that folks who have them try to keep them going so their survival rate is probably way higher than the average almost 30yo vehicle model, but I have known of many that have been junked too. I know of at least a dozen original B4V wagons either currently still running around or that have been scrapped just in my local area here, which is small-town Montana. When I lived on the West Coast and was turning wrenches for a living, I knew personally of at least another 5 or 10 owned by friends in the area, and regularly worked on a half dozen more. So that would mean that I personally know at least 20-30 examples. Is it really possible that I have firsthand experience with something like 3% of the total population, without having even tried at all, just as a regular guy encountering them for work or parked at the grocery store in town??? I don't think so.
I would like to know where that "only 980 produced!!!!" story originated...... Something tells me it was something the folks in Bellingham WA who were cobbling together questionable "restorations" of these cars cooked it up to try to sell more. But one way or another I am convinced it's wrong. They just aren't that rare, even today.
Granted, maybe you saw a sedan, and those are even more common.
