Mmm, if we all believed that we'd all be storing "genuine" Thunder utes as retirement funds. Honestly I get what your saying, it's just an optioned kingswood, but its the passage of time that makes them so very different to the shoestring budget built cars of today. Also the blood, sweat and tears ( not to mention luck of actually getting your hands on one ) that goes into having one on the road. When mines finished, god help the first poor soul who pulls up next to it in a thunder ute and mentions that his off the shelf commodore may be in the same league as the once rusty body I rescued from under a tree in the middle of nowhere. Anyway that's just my rant on why I don't like the reference. No malaise intended. I just really thought they're may have been sales records or something to give some indication of general numbers. I've seen them for Fords. I know records for Holden are slim, if not guessed, for cars built before 1974.