Hi guys.........yep, it's me, I don't get to spend much time on here these days, but I do check the place out occasionally to make sure Roz and Stinker don't run everyone off.
Riff got it right on the story with Whitey. I bought the truck new from a Dodge dealer in central PA and they divulged to me that it and another CE received hail damage on the way to the dealerships from the facility that put the stripes on them. They even gave me the paperwork showing the $595.00 charge for paintless dent removal. The trucks were then stripped of their CE status because the people that had ordered them did not want prior damage, so they built two more CE's. The new #9 CE supposedly lives in Kentucky. That guys has the CE 009/200 badge inside his truck, but his vin # is out of sequence with the rest of them.
The issue that arose out of them building two more was that my truck and the other one already carried the CE vin #'s (whitey is 009 out of 200) so they had to build two out of sequence CE's. They then sold the two damaged trucks as solid summit white. I don't have a CE plaque, but I do have the CE interior. The other damaged truck was sold by Roanoke Dodge in Illinois to a guy in New Foundland and the owner paid to have the stripes put back on. I guess Whitey is the only all white one left. Not sure about the monetary value, but it sure was cool to me to have the story go along with the truck.