An auction bidder pays $750,000 for "the last car ever produced at Holden Australia" even though General Motors says "absolutely the last Holden" is sitting in the National Motor Museum, not for sale.
One of the last Holden Commodores to be produced in Adelaide has been snapped up at auction with a top bid of $750,000.
The VF Series II SSV Redline sedan was given the final vehicle serial number and was the last to travel through the body and paint shops at the company s Elizabeth plant, which closed in 2017.
However, parent group General Motors still owns an identical Commodore which carries the ceremonial title of the last car Holden produced in Australia.
It was the final vehicle to go through the general assembly process and remains on loan to the National Motor Museum at Birdwood, northeast of Adelaide.
One has never been driven and is at the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. It was thought to be the very last car to roll off the production line at Elizabeth. But yesterday, The Advertiser revealed there was another unofficial last Holden - a VF Series II SSV Redline Commodore - that was being sold by auction with a $500,000 price tag. Vendor Lloyds Auctions says it has carried out a verification process - involving a sophisticated collection of photos, videos and paperwork from a worker at the Elizabeth plant during its final weeks in 2017 - and can officially claim that the Commodore can legitimately be sold as the true last Holden .
| UPDATED: 07:34, Thu, Jan 21, 2021
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