As you suspected Damo, no VH SL/E wagons were made.

This is just another bulls*** rumour started on facebook by morons who still believe in the Easter bunny, and Santa Claus.

Actually I reckon I can almost pinpoint it to the heap of s*** that was advertised for sale as a genuine SL/E wagon by someone who has less IQ points than teeth, and half of those are rotted...who has been telling interested "buyers" that I don't know what I'm talking about, and that VH8VL35 on the tag says it's a VH, 8V means V8, L35 says it's an SLE but the tag stamper got it wrong - it should have been 5L3 not L35.

I don't think Holden would have employed a dyslexic gen-Y to stamp tags like all the lame numberplates on the road these days... but it made me chuckle to see what people think they know....


There was VH wagons done by HDT though - at least one O'Neill VH wagon was built, and another ADP without the flares, just like the 30 odd VK ADP HDT wagons, and roughly a dozen VL wagons of various model names, but not all of them were built as Calais/SLEs though.

Will have to add that info to my book. I like the 5L3 interpretation for SLE HEHEHEHE.

Warren

Exactly what happened Edelbrock1 - he sent a pic of the tag to someone interested initially, and they sent the details to me - it was an SL/X wagon, 3.3L trimatic, and now has a 308 in it (or so the seller says).

One giveaway too, was it had headrests on the back seat - none of the 1st generation commodore wagons (even A9Y VL Calais) had them, and he was also teling me it had a dodgy rear seat backrest - it looked like a sedan backrest was modified to fit.

I sent him back the decoded tag details, which he duly went back to the seller with, and thats when the abuse started....

I have only had the info sent to me 3rd hand in a private message on facebook from one of my "friends" on there who was interested, and asked for the details. I haven't seen the ad itself, only the feedback from others who are having a good laugh at the guy telling "buyers" that my tag decode was wrong.

I would go looking, but every time I look on facebook I lose too many brain cells trying to fit in, so I tend to only stick to a few more intelligent groups.

Damo might have a direct link to it.

No, don't have a link. Its been removed anyway. Was a VH SL/X wagon for sale but a person said he had a VH SL/E wagon, said last 10 were done in house, what ever that means. What ended the argument was when i asked to prove it. The person reckons he has the paper work to say it is real.

The bull**** artists are getting worse on certain fb pages, even when proven wrong, still say they are right, as Mick knows!

So is it then possible the guy does have one of the converted SLX?
Maybe that's what he means or is talking about.
I for one know how people's words or meanings can be taken the wrong way and or twisted around.
Did you get to see the paperwork Damo?
Cheers, Damo 2. Lol.

I've asked for some paper work from people that say they have a VH SL/E wagon but as always, they say they can't find it etc.

Also people still argue they didn't make VC SL/E wagons. Well Mick, myself and few others on here know they made them, hell even got an original sales brochure on them recently.

Your not that old Valentino, or we're both old farts because I clearly remember those car shows in Burwood before it became a concrete business park. nice info on the wagons.

There was a VH SL/X wagon for sale at the last Southern River swap meet here in Perth. Was blue with the 2 tone blue interior, had electric windows andcentral locking with the slide knobs,trip computer and cruise control, and was a 308. All looked factory fitted, the car was in good original condition.