So this is a doozy of a story. My FIL, who lives in Central CA, initially put an order in for a LRY-7 seater on May 6th 2022 (white/white, 7 seats, no other options). Initial EDD was Nov '22-Feb '23. As the FIL was car-less after his Rav4 was totaled by some lunatic in his work parking lot, he needed wheels sooner than later but only wanted a Model Y, so in the waiting queue he went.
Being a good son-in-law, I had been searching for an existing inventory unit, trying to pick one up earlier than his forecasted EDD, though weeks of search had been in vain. Finally, last week, I was able to order a demo LRY-7, though did give a slight pause seeing this demo unit had 4,100 miles on it (had a whopping $990 discount). Also, this was after the recent $3k price hike, so along with an unneeded tow hitch option, the demo Y was $4k more expensive than his original order (-$990 for miles). But the FIL needed a car ASAP, so went ahead and ordered that demo.
Went through all the pre-delivery tasks (loan app, insurance, even scheduled a home delivery appointment) and everything seemed set till I saw 3 days prior to his scheduled home delivery the VIN of the demo unit had been removed from his account. After contacting Tesla asking what happened, they said that the demo, which had been listed as being available in Palo Alto, an hour from where he lived, was actually in Florida and it had been listed in Palo Alto by mistake, so the VIN was removed from his account and assigned to someone in the local area in Florida! After expressing my disappointment over that screwup, the Tesla rep said he would put in a "priority request" to find a replacement Y that matched the FIL's specs. He did say that due to Tesla's mistake with the demo, they would honor the pricing in his original order when they found a replacement. He also advised me to cancel the demo RN as that VIN was now gone.
Several days passed without hearing anything from Tesla other than generic "an advisor will reach out to you soon" email from an operations advisor. I was starting to think the FIL was screwed and would not be taking delivery of a Model Y anytime in the near future, then yesterday (a Sunday of all days) a different operations advisor reached out saying she had found a matching VIN, only it had black seats instead of white seats. She also said it was a new unit, not a demo (could mean it is a reject, but hoping it was someone that just missed a delivery appointment). I told her yes, get that thing assigned to my FIL's RN ASAP, and she did, so now he is scheduled to pickup a LRY-7 this afternoon at the Fremont showroom.
tl;dr - Order put in on a LRY-7 on 6 May, then existing inventory demo reserved but lost due to Tesla F-up, replacement new unit found after priority request put in and taking delivery in Fremont today, 7 weeks after original order put in.
So if you want a LRY-7 in less than 2 months, all you gotta do is follow the steps above.