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Old 31-01-2021, 12:58 PM   #31
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Huh, the article clearly says it was the last bodied, the last VIN and the last to be badged, not that the badge makes a difference.
If youve ever been through the plant you'd know that after running through the paint shop they get put in a holding area until they go to VAP for fitout, so the order they roll off the end isnt necessarily the order they are built in but one thing cant be denied, when the final weld was completed on the last set of stamped panels, the body shop ceased to build car bodies.
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https://www.carsales.com.au/editoria...-built-128323/


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“The car which is currently being auctioned (VIN ending 333644) was the last body to leave the Bodyshop and enter/exit the Paintshop – not to come off the General Assembly line itself.

“Therefore, and very importantly from a heritage perspective, the vehicle in the National Motor Museum in Birdwood SA (VIN ending 333542) is absolutely the last Holden.”
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Old 31-01-2021, 02:18 PM   #32
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When the auction has been going for a while online it is a bit of an anti climax watching it live on youtube and no more bids.
Stupid price for the ute, no race pedigree, nothing to make it famous, not unique after all there are 3 others.
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Old 31-01-2021, 02:22 PM   #33
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The way I read it (& am happy to be corrected). is; the one just auctioned was the last one built but NOT the Last VIN Number......... they're 2 apart.

Be interesting to know where the car with the VIN number between them Is..
I've actually got this ****-about...the one just auctioned was the last VIN# not the last 1 Built..
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Old 31-01-2021, 02:31 PM   #34
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Yeah, we know that, doesnt change the fact that the auction car was the last body built and therefore has the highest VIN, they just sent it down the rest of the line earlier than some others, its still the last body built and painted and it is at that point that a body receives its all important sequence number, if there are none after it, and the robots are shut down permenantly, it was the last.
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Old 31-01-2021, 02:43 PM   #35
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I've actually got this ****-about...the one just auctioned was the last VIN# not the last 1 Built..
So you have to ask yourself what holds greater significance, being the last set of panels welded together before the robots ceased, or which order they got picked out of the finished batch to go through assembly.
What the final VIN has going against it is it was obviously allocated to a dealer as stock or an order, so naturally it went ahead in the assembly stage and the museum car was surplus held back for the media photoshoot.
Both have significance but only one holds the highest ever VIN for a VF Commodore, that cant be disputed.
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Old 01-02-2021, 01:00 PM   #36
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Guy who switched on to the fact that the car with the final vin number was in a dealership unsold, made a killing.

But with Holden saying it's not the last car, the guy who bought it is a moron.

If Holden say the last car off the line is the last car, no amount of technicalities is ever going to change that. Buyer got screwed.
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Even if the actual final car was in the same auction, i would still rather the final VIN car. But for more than a price of a house they can keep them both!
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Wasn't there much the same dispute with the prototypes, chassis numbers and production completion of the first 48/215 Holdens?
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SO LMCT Plus bought the W1 ute. Goes to raffle ticket system later int he year if anyones interested.
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SO LMCT Plus bought the W1 ute. Goes to raffle ticket system later int he year if anyones interested.
Hope it goes to a better home than the AMG Merc Did..
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Wasn't there much the same dispute with the prototypes, chassis numbers and production completion of the first 48/215 Holdens?
A bit Like the Pi$$ing contest that still exists Today over the first Aussie assembled Kenworth..
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