Quote Originally Posted by Blue victor View Post
Speaking of "rust free" ...... I recall a NOS windowless H body van shell advertised in Unique cars for $6,500 around the late nineties. It was in NSW and a black and white ad with it sitting on timber on a box trailer in a suburban driveway. It looked white in color which I thought was odd because all NOS panels are blackish?? At the time I thought he's a "dreamer" seeing as you could buy a very nice streeter for about $12 -$15k, and a clean genuine sandman for possibly less.

Is anybody sitting on a NOS factory shell?

Has anyone ever seen one, I have seen a few commodore (VN etc) at wreckers who must've bought old stock going reasonably cheap, but never a van.

I assume they can only be used for rebody as they would have no tags at all

What would that shell sell for today?
I had pictures of a "body in white" WB van body that was for sale around 10 yrs ago but have misplaced them. Back in the day new body shells were available as a spare part and came pre-painted white, hence they were known as a "body in white". They came with a body tag and a GMP part number stamped on the plate, along with the paint code and body number. Panel shops generally removed this tag and installed the original tags from the old wrecked body.