Originally posted by Su-tehp
Say what? The YT-1300 has got to be one of the most (if not the most) common light freighter in the SW galaxy! The YT-1300 has been around for decades by the time of Episode IV and has been sold to thousands of light freighter captains all over the galaxy.
The number of stock variants and conversion kits of the YT-1300 alone earned millions of credits for Corellian Engineering Corp.
Modding problems aside, the YT-1300 was NOT rare.
Ummm - yes it was. The age of the ship meant that very few people still flew them, they were outdated and practically impossible to find. Book evidence supports this (TZs Heir to the Empire, when the Noghri try to fake the Falcon to trick Leia and Han ino getting on so they can kidnap them, and Han is amazed that they "actually dug up another working YT-1300"), and movie evidence (Leia's and Luke's reaction to the Falcon when they first see it). These are not reactions to a common ship.
Hence, rare ship. Don't worry though, we will have a falcon - eventually.