Anyone ever hear a story about 2 new '71 Challengers built with the same VIN?

[JH27N0B]

I was watching a YouTube video about a recent situation reported in automotive press where a guy went to register his vintage Vette after moving and the DMV found a Vette in TX with the same VIN was already registered.  Lawsuits are going on now as it looks like the one in TX is a fraud clone.
Several comments to the video mentioned a case where a dealership in Louisville KY had received a delivery of brand new '71 Dodges and found 2 identical Challengers that both had the same VIN in the load.  One of the comments said one of them still exists in Louisiana but was sold with the understanding "it could never be registered".
Having been in the hobby for ages, I've subscribed to various Mopar mags for decades, and active on Mopar forums like this one for years, I'm surprised I never heard that tale before.  Several commenters told the same story, if it was just one comment saying this, I'd dismiss it as just being some dolt who heard some story that was passed down many times to the point who knows how accurate it is now, along the lines of the guy at a show or the gas station who tells you he had a friend who bought a 73 cuda new with a hemi!  But since several different commenters repeated the same claim this has me wondering if there is any truth to this tale?
Anyone ever hear that story of a factory snafu occurring?

[70vert]

I suppose anything is possible back then, but highly unlikely. A counterfeit build is much more plausible and should be easy to confirm/prove (based on assessments I see on this site).

[JH27N0B]

I don't know what checks are or were in place at plants to prevent a lineset build from somehow accidently getting replicated such that the same car gets built twice, but I'd think there would be many of them.
The part of the story that struck me as being pure BS is that these Challengers were sold "cannot be registered".  If this twin car situation actually happened, I suspect the issue would have been escalated up through various channels at Chrysler, and upper management would have made arrangements for one of the cars to be returned to the plant, and the other one sold through the dealer. And an investigation to be conducted on how this costly error happened at the plant.  The returned car would be scrapped, or possibly they'd have removed the VIN tag and other VINs from the car, and donated it to a trade school or possibly even provided it to a factory sponsored race team to be used for a drag car sold on a bill of sale only.
And the only way the story would be known today is if people from the dealer in '71 talked about it, or someone who worked at Chrysler back in the day related it as a funny anecdote of one of the screwups that happened when he worked there. The buyer and subsequent owners of the surviving car probably would have no idea of their cars accidental twin.

[torredcuda]

You never know but I wouldn`t think a dealer would sell a car with a "it could never be registered" stipulation. I would think the dealer would call the factory rep and have them straighten it out somehow as there would be liability involved.

[captcolour]

There weren't computers at dealers back in 1971, so everything on paper.  I'd be surprised if two cars had the same VIN that it would actually get caught at the dealer, unless they filed paperwork by VIN.  Normally dealers had stock numbers and paper and keys were stored by that.  And I agree that if the dealer found this, they would have returned one of them to Chrysler.  These weren't sought after vehicles in 1971, so no one would buy one that they couldn't register.

[HP2]

I think there were too many steps of verification in the factory that would prevent this from happening. However, if it did, if they were built identical and shipped to the same dealer, I could see this being caught at the destination. I also believe one of the cars being returned to Detroit where it was probably scrapped. If Chrysler was willing to destroy cars used in movies and tv, which had some celebrity status, why would they care at all about a duplicate vin vehicle.

I'm going with BS on this one unless documents prove otherwise.

[RUNCHARGER]

I say booshi. How would the factory ever make up the paperwork to ship the cars away out of the factory?
Of course later on there seemed to be a factory in Quebec that manufactured it's own E-bodies with new VINs......