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Originally Posted by PAUL K
I'm glad you brought it up. I find the responses interesting. I think the next subject should be re-bodied cars. After all these years I thought that was a big deal. Now it's looking like it wouldn't matter if a million dollar GTO was originally a 350 2 bbl Skylark as long as it has the right VIN and numbers stamped throughout.... Learn something new everyday.
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Now we hit the "Gray" area.
As we know the consensus was that tampering with the VIN tag and relative numbers was a federal offense. Now, I do know that i read not long ago that Barrett Jackson (AKA Grin & Bear it Jackson) was instrumental in helping pass some sort of legislation that made it allowable to "remove" both a body and VIN tag in the process of restoration. This was because the process today of restoring a concourse car made it desirable to remove the VIN during restoration. Also they had many problems over the years with cars being inspected at auction. Can you still buy the rivets on ebay? They used to remove those listings long long ago but i think that they allowed them to stay up in recent years. I have not confirmed this yet. Anyhow this legislation spelled out removing a VIN from a car if it was to be re-installed on the SAME car so.....the idea of Re-Body or using a Lemans to make a Judge is just what is stated at start of topic...Gray.
We all know it happens though.