If the car was ordered with automatic but without a center console you received a column shifter. Also a bench seat was delivered with column.
There are several of Hemi Ebodies with column automatic.
Those VIN plates (with the 8 instead of the B) were normal cars assembled in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The bodyshells were produced in USA, shipped to europe where they were finally assambled.
Great car, congratulations.
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