How many Scorpios are still on the road today?

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How many Scorpios are still on the road today?

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As I recall they imported a little over 20k.

How many do you think are still on the road today? I'm not counting the ones overseas...
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A hundred and twelve?
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Hopefully, this spring will there will be one more.
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Someone had a list of registered Merkurs from 2017. Cars with current registrations and plates -- "on the road" and there were about 100 1988 models and 100 1989 models. I'm sure the list of parked/expired registration/projects/out in a field in W.VA would at least double that number.
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merkurdriver wrote: Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:56 pm Someone had a list of registered Merkurs from 2017. Cars with current registrations and plates -- "on the road" and there were about 100 1988 models and 100 1989 models. I'm sure the list of parked/expired registration/projects/out in a field in W.VA would at least double that number.
Nate Howard probably has that many in his barn.
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Did Nate finish the Sierra Cosworth total restoration project? The one Mike used to have?
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andyofcolumbusmerkur wrote: Sat Feb 16, 2019 9:18 am Did Nate finish the Sierra Cosworth total restoration project? The one Mike used to have?
YES.
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More Scorpios than I expected.
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