It’s little wonder the Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV road car, with its painfully-long name, had many nicknames: the Batmobile, the Plastic Pig, the Walkinshaw, or simply the Walky. Even longer was the lifespan of many of the racing versions. The first examples gridded up for the Bathurst 1000 in 1988, with seven of the distinctively bodyworked machines entered six years later, in 1994. There was even a single example of the VL Walky entered for the 1995 Great Race. Incredibly, that old porker outlasted many of the five-litre ‘Supercars, finishing a fine 10th outright, a fitting farewell for the enduring model making its eighth and final appearance. Appropriately, many of the VLs live on today. With the model celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018, it’s a perfect…