kinda off track a little but i thought id share this story

A few years ago I found a cheap VZ SS ute in QU and caught a flight over to drive it back to WA. A mate of mine came with me. He found a VZ s-pac 1 tonner with gen3 6-speed with 4,500 kms on the clock. Before he got there he knew he was buying a repaired 'repairable write off' that had been lovely bought back to life by a father and son that own a panel shop on the sunny coast. The ute was seriously smashed in the front at 600kms... totaled on the first tank of fuel!!! This tonner had THE MOST AMAZING custom painted steel tray ive seen. It looked like sheet glass. 200 hours of hard labor went into the tray alone!

So we got home no problems. The big Austrian hadnt owned a dirty big V8 before (fuel is expensive in Europe) and it wasnt long before he drove it front on into a tree at 60km/hr and the motor nearly ended up in the cab! The insurance paid him out over $20K and he bought a well body VZ SS shortly after.

After that we would always speculate as to what would become of that tonner with bullshit hot tray... until.... 2 year later it turned up on carsales.... in NSW!!! A bloke (Lebanese i think) answered the phone and proceeded to tell me a pack of flat out lies like he did the tray himself and spent $5000 on wheels and suspension etc etc. After I called him out on all his bullshit he ended up telling me he owned a panel shop and then i hung up on him.

So here is an example of a MODERN vehicle that only has 15,000 kms on the clock and has been completely buckled and bent TWICE!

Its a miracle if a sandman gets into 30+ years of life without being rusted out completely or bent; needing a body or even forbid,.. a chassis change

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[MENTION=225]HK1837[/MENTION] i found a number with letter (eg L45687) stamped into the b pillar on the driver side. it was under the paint and i had door and fender off to see it! do you know what this is?