US Car Production By Make : 1960-69

This must be Mustang Sally! 

The number of brands making cars Stateside were down. GM ruled the roost by some margin, and would have done so by more but for one model. The Ford Mustang. In 1966 for example just over 600,000 Mustangs were made. That was 28% of all Ford brand cars, 23% for the figure below that includes Mercury and Lincoln!

Chrysler made a real effort to catch up, with both Dodge and Chrysler nameplates increasing well. AMC was finding the going tough, a company focused on 'smaller' cars. Studebaker had been in trouble for years so it was no surprise to see the end of that car making enterprise. The Avanti model from Studebaker was then made in tiny numbers for some years after by different owners, seen below in the 'Others' column. The big three was well established.

Most of the 'Other' figure is made up by Checker. I assume they are taxi cars and whether they should be included or not, I did anyway. The figures below are in thousands so you have to add three zeros.

	Year	GM	Ford	Chrys	AMC	Stu	Oth	Total
	1960	2,793	1,739	972	459	120	7	6,090
	1961	2,391	1,680	737	378	60	6	5,252
	1962	3,573	1,849	709	442	89	8	6,670
	1963	3,835	1,858	1,064	428	70	7	7,262
	1964	4,234	1,929	1,251	379	37	6	7,836
	1965	4,560	2,557	1,423	391	19	6	8,956
	1966	4,367	2,610	1,585	292	9	7	8,870
	1967	3,785	1,578	1,323	209	-	7	6,902
	1968	4,584	2,161	1,683	270	-	7	8,705
	1969	4,532	2,339	1,646	283	-	7	8,807

1968 AMC Javelin