1965 A-body pilot car!

Although not an A body, one of the neatest things I’ve seen on eBay was an E body patterning body. I believe the story was that Dick Landy racing had bought it when trying to buy a “body in white” for a race car. All the patterning bodies were crushed because they were used as templates which critical dimensions were measured from as bodies were being spot welded together coming down the line, and supposedly the process was closely guarded as a corporate secret. It had legs welded from the suspension and K frame mounting points and plates that bolted to floor with a string of zeros followed by 1 s/n on the vin and the fender plate had information about the body shells intended purpose.