I had a '78 Pace Car for a few years.
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When I started to restore mine I was seriously looking at the pace car paint job. However, mine is the silver model so I kept it stock. In the process, I came across the hidden build sheet and dam if all the numbers matched. The origin was Bolingreen and the destination was Okinawa. Whaaaat? More 78 vets were sold than any other year and a many were sold to military guys. The story was my vet had a 12 hour clock and not a 24 hour clock so it didn't make to Okinawa. It was likely shipped out and then returned to another US port so the duty didn't apply.