If this were about saving classic cars from the crusher, then there would be no questions about vin swapping. If you have 2 cars to start with - one rusty gto and one rust free lemans, and this was about saving cars from the crusher, then when you were done you would still have 2 cars. One restored gto and one restored lemans. If you use a lemans body to restore a rusty gto, what happens to the lemans? Killing one car to save another is not about preserving classics, its about money. When someone wants to swap a vin, they are wanting to create a more valuable car. If the GTO were the rust free shell and the lemans was a complete numbers matching rusted out pile, no one would think twice about parting out the lemans to rebuild the gto. Would anyone want to remove the vin plate from the rust free gto shell and replace it with the vin from the rusted out lemans to recreate the number matching lemans? No, because the gto would be more valuable. Thus it is about deception and money. There is no other reason to swap a vin. Why does the rusty car have more of a right to live than the rust free car - the only answer is because of value.
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