I actually saw the car 2 years ago (I originally wrote last year, because Covid has made 2020 into a non-existent gap in my memory timeline - anyway it was in 2019). The car is in the Vienna Military museum. It was actually used for a few years by many people after the war. It has since been 'restored' to its 'assassination' condition which makes me wonder if the bullet holes are real or not. Still, it is definitely the actual car, and quite interesting to see as a genuine historical artifact. Also is protected by a proximity alarm - when I stretched out my arm to point out a bullet hole to my wife ( within 2-3 feet at best), sirens and horns went off and fully-armed officials came rushing up (well, actually, polite elderly gentlemen in their 70s shuffled into view, raised their eyebrows and gave me a brief smile as if to say 'Don't be that dick, OK?').
Regarding the number plate - yeah, but - the thing is, much of Austria-Hungary, and certainly the Archduke spoke German, while the the inhabitants of Sarajevo spoke Bosnian, Croat or Serbian (the assassins were Serbian). In any of those languages the number plate co-incidence doesn't work ('armistice' or 'treaty' in those languages do not begin with 'A", and anyway Austria-Hungary sgned their armistice on November 5th. But of course, we English-speakers put our own twist on things as if it is the most important thing. The number plate was only noticed in the early 2000s.
There are also a whole series of 'cursed owners' of the car, where supposedly owners and drivers of the car suffered deaths and horrible accidents in the years after - most of these events have been shown to be exaggerated - rather like the 'eerie' co-incidences between the Abe Lincoln and JFK assassination (did you know the car JFK was shot in was a Lincoln continental?).
Pointless Trivia. Fun.
