Quote: Several AARs & T/As were ordered by dealerships.
Mr. Norm's ordered well over 100 T/As, I have seen the order blanks for them. I did not see one sales bank car in the bunch.
Not saying there were no special orders by individual dealers, just that it is a well know fact that the factory built enough to be legal for the racing purpose of the cars. Mr. Norm being the largest volume hipo Dodge dealer in the world at that time, would have known of these cars first in the dealer pipeline and it is not surprising that he would have order those and likely got some of the first ones shipped.
What were the shipping dates of the cars as opposed to the SPD of the sales bank cars?
Other dealers could have special ordered these cars, however if there were many left in sales bank the sales reps DISCOURAGED it and if there was something close to what the customer/dealer wanted to order they would cut a deal to move the sales bank car if necessary. The big advantage was that the time to special order a car was 4 weeks vs a few days shipping time of the sales bank car. In fact, there MAY have been a cut off date for production on these cars and if you didn't have an order in early there may have been no choice but to take a sales bank car.
