I think first we would have to define what is meant by "factory". Prior to customer delivery most dealerships in the day would do anything you wanted to a car if you had the money. Customers didn't care about build sheets and the like ... so heck, I imagine they would pull an option off another car on the lot and swap it if meant selling a vehicle.
Then there were the dealerships that had the clout to special order a batch of cars with normally unavailable options I imagine.
There were probably management types that could order a car with normally unavailable options.
Rental companies could probably order cars with anything they wanted.
There were a lot of paths that might lead to a car with options never documented as available on a particular model car.
So would "factory" mean as it left the factory? As it left the dealership? Or would it mean something like "regular production" as in only options listed as available to the average Joe with no alterations post factory?
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