Just saw the ID plate on Shaanons web site re the GTS 327 sold in latest auction. Not saying the Body ID plate is false but it is obviously been oversampled from 80837 to 81837.
Has anyone knowledge that this would happen in a Holden Plant if they made a mistake when stamping the main body plate ?
I would have thought they would make a new one ?
Anybody experienced factory error restamped HK body ID plates ?

My mate’s V8 manual HK GTS has 80337 on the VIN tag. He’s owned it since the early 80’s. Mistakes are far more common than you’d think.

There are even mistakes that aren't obvious. An example can be seen on Dandenong assembled HQ Statesman. Dandenong appear to have had their ADR plates already stamped with HOLDEN in the middle whereas other Assembly plants didn't always.

As an aside, look here - these are repro tags but I think they have been copied off unused Dandenong examples, see the 4th image:

https://www.ebay.com.au/...720a1:g:ZTUAAOSwW89eHtVs

When the bulk of the Assembly plants built a car that wasn't a HOLDEN they didn't use the word. You can see the tags in the auction attached are off a Pagewood Deville, notice the HOLDEN word replaced by STATESMAN?

https://www.ebay.com.au/...195ba:g:nFIAAOSwsDdguJ08

All the Dandenong assembled HQ Statesman I have seen (which are all Elizabeth BAP, Dandenong VAP) say HOLDEN rather than STATESMAN.

All the Bedford and Chevrolet trucks and vans I have with ADR plates say CHEVROLET or BEDFORD where the others say HOLDEN or STATESMAN.

I suspect this is why LH-LX tags say HOLDEN in the same spot, but maybe not as most LC and LJ seem to also and the bulk of them are not Dandenong assembly.

I also saw a HJ or HX Belmont wagon at a wreckers out in the middle of Victoria. It had been given a repeat chassis number on the ADR tag so something like BHJ12345MR but when it got to the end of the assembly plant and they stamped the chassis number into the rail (copying off the ADR tag) they stamped BHJ12345R so added the M on the end, so it read BHJ12345RM.

There is no such thing as a HK 80837.

The point was it cannot be 81837 overstamped 80837, there is no reason that would have happened, has to be 80837 corrected to 81837.

If someone nailed a stamp of the middle 8 over a 3 could have been a 80337,except for paint code I guess.

That isn't the only known example of a HK 81837 Body ID plate from Melbourne with that problem. There are multiple examples.
It seems there were some problems with one particular operator at the time.

I think that was a broken L on the machine Terry. On some you can see a tiny bit of the bottom of the L.

I just looked at a couple I have recorded, you can see the bottom of the L is half broken off. They wouldn’t have cared, only the PSN mattered. It was the chassis and engine numbers that were important outside GMH.