Yes, to my memory, the Polynesian was never sold, though it was completed and preserved beautifully. It is believed to have been the template for the reissue C58. Later, this guitar was stripped of hardware and tossed rather roughly around the shop for years. There was an Asian girl group that used this guitar with a phony middle pickup put in for photo sessions.

They kept one around the shop for years, using it for photo sessions, adding a pup, taking a pup out, using it for mock-up, etc. There's another pic of Hall holding a sunburst (autumnglo) 325 in the same manner. No matter, because V-81 and V-83 were virtually identical. I've always heard that guitar he's holding was V-81. Still, other examples of both styles can be found in the original production run, as well as F hole examples, and examples without them. #V83, two serial numbers later, received no such modification. There is a sales receipt showing this shipment, with serial numbers. It was shipped to Germany with those modifications. When they were returned to the Santa Ana factory for shipping, #V80 mysteriously received a four-control upgrade, including Rogan 'oven' knobs. They were to be shipped to Steinway Musichaus, Hamburg. This guitar was taken to the 1959 NAMM show in Chicago, where a German music dealer bought several Rickenbacker guitars, #V80 being one of them. This guitar is believed to be the very first 'real' 325 made. However, there is photographic evidence of #V81 being displayed by John Hall in 1958. It is believed that #V80 was a guitar known as the 'Polynesian', because no sales record of #V80 exist. There is some odd history surrounding these guitars. Here's #V-83, two serial #'s away from John Lennon's. Here's a treat for you nostalgia buffs my buddy John Williams bought two of the origimodels.

Original 1958 rickenbacker 325