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106 (and not 105 as I wrote previously) is the amount of individual chassis numbers. 3202 is the first (built in 2011) and 3614 is the last (built in 2015) (only even numbers in the 32xx, 34xx and 36xx series, 3400 was not used but 3600 was). This also includes the “Grand-Am” spec cars that went to IMSA before they used “normal” GT3’s.
A lot of the cars only raced a couple of seasons in the major championships. Most of these were then sold to private individuals - or kept by the teams as spares - when new cars were brought in or the team stopped racing. 3204 was kept by Michelotto as the basis for the development of the 458 GT3, others were never raced, and others was only raced in “gentlemen series”.
As far as yearly production goes I don’t really know, because the cars were not necessarily built in a “sequential order”. What I mean by that is, that a car with a higher number might have been completed before a car with a lower number. Having said that, the fact that cars with numbers in the mid to high 34xx range start to appear in 2013 suggest, that the majority of the cars were built between 2011 and 2013. 3446, 3448 and 3450 al had their first race at Daytona at the end of January 2013. The car that won GTD at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2014 was 3484, and that car was delivered to the team in late 2013. This suggest that only 10-15 new cars were built during 2014/2015.
The only car I can think of that has been rebuilt with a new chassis is 3494 that was destroyed at Spa in 2014. There has been a number of large crashes with the 458 GT3, but in most cases the chassis was not damaged (only the bolt on parts), so most of the cars were repaired. I don’t know of any cars that has been completely written off, but I would guess that 5-10 cars are no longer in a working/raceable condition.
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