Indeed, any dealer can put a customer purchase order (CPO) in the system. It is just finding a dealer willing to do it and at a reasonable price.
Right now, it looks like the people receiving VIN's for their vehicles is not because it was an actual customer purchase order (CPO) but rather a dealer that had an allocation, and re-customized it to the owners liking before it went to D-status.
I think you'll see the customer purchase orders get processed as soon as October allocation get's released because CPO's take precedence over lot allocations.
Using the below link as a reference. e.g. Let's say that, on 9/1/2014, there were 1200 Hellcats allocated for 3 months. Between 9/9/2014 - 9/15/2014, only 900 allocations got used/sold. The remaining 300 unused allocations get reallocated on 9/15/2014 across the dealership network and used for sold customer purchase orders. These CPOs are reviewed if a dealership has no allocation or went above their allocation. Once those are fullfilled, then they go toward dealership lot allocations.
In December, another # for allocations will be released again.
One can speculate the # sold based on the gap in VIN's, if there are no other vehicles with the same build sequence numbers. E.g. the lowest VIN seen on the forum is FH713663 and the highest is FH714177 - or
514 vehicles, IF, these build sequence numbers are only being used for Hellcats. Most of the VINs that are getting out there are from orders placed on 9/9/2014. One other factor is the September arrival Hellcats that were build in August that dealerships ordered. I'm thinking, CPOs were able to be placed on 9/9/2014, however, 8/10/2014 was for dealerships to place initial lot allocations for September. As an aside, I placed mine on 9/12/2014 so, if I'm lucky, I'll get in this allocation, and if not, then I'll just be in the back half of the allocations for this model year.
My guess is, Bob's dealership might only have 1 allocation and 33+ orders, however, those are 33 orders that will likely get filled as there are 32 of those above allocation that will be reviewed.
http://www.challengertalk.com/forums/f290/facts-challenger-hellcat-allocation-not-shared-t-k-260490/#post3502370