[quote]There is one vehicle that will remain collectible no matter what. When HSV were building the VL Group A Walkinshaw, they slipped a couple of VL Calais sleepers into the mix. They featured all the Group A stuff ...[/quote] Interesting mention Joe ... I met a former early HSV employee many years ago and he told me a few stories about the assembly of the VL Walkies and how elongated holes were drilled into the door panels in an effort to align the somewhat less than perfectly formed fibreglass panels ... we also discussed the Calais variation which was created at both factory and dealer level ... certainly, I am personally aware of conversions done by a Perth based Holden/HSV dealership that operated its own panel shop and which was having trouble shifting original cars after the VN Commodore came on stream in 1988. The drama began after Holden had done well to shift the required 500 Group A evolution VL Commodores, such that they got a little too ambitious and commissioned 750 in total. As far as I am aware, the Calais variations are Calais in external appearance only, but otherwise all Group A ... the accepted story goes that the factory built only nine cars in this form, but in no particular build sequence, and it would be anyone's guess as to how many dealer or private conversions were carried out. Talking of conversions, Perth also hosts two stretch limo conversions of original cars as evidenced below ...