[Heybuck]

Hi, seeing as I'm here in Australia I'll tell you what I know and what I think.

What I know.
If your car WAS destined for Australia, it would NOT have been made or shipped out here in Right Hand Drive form. It would ONLY have been supplied as a Left Hand Drive car and any conversion work to make it RHD would have been done in Australia. That is a fact!!! Don't let anyone try and convince you otherwise.

What I think
While I fully accept your car may have a dealer code of 40 on the build sheet, I really doubt it would have been shipped over here. Somewhere, somehow, I think you car never made the journey down-under. It may have been re-directed to another dealer in the USA before it was prepped for shipment? Maybe they were short of stock so it was sent elsewhere??

What I REALLY think what happened is:
Those cars were RARE in Australia when brand new. They were super expensive and VERY hard to sell. Buyers were very few and far between. Back in those days, it was illegal to sell a car that was NOT RHD. EVERY LHD car had to be converted before being sold. And converting a car has never been cheap to do. So I would think that simply, you car was ordered by Stack & Co. (they were based in Sydney), but quite possibly if Stacks were finding the cars hard to sell, they most likely asked Pontiac simply to not ship it over here and to find a dealer in America who wanted the car for stock.

Interesting story though. I would still think that your car would be a very rare car having that dealer code.

PS, the law here nowadays is that a car that is over 30 years old can be registered if it is LHD. There are still some brand new American cars being sold here but they are now being made in RHD (Jeeps, Chysler & Dodge mostly), and also Corvettes in extremely limited numbers but those are imported LHD and converted. Incredibly expensive cars.