Selling Trim Tags ?????

[njsteve]

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Forst off,there are companies out there that have brand new blank trim tags and even protectoplates and the corect equipment to stamp them to say whatever you want them tosay.Why get tangled up in a build date/VIN sequence mismatch when you can nail al the numbers dead on?It is just one more reason why the value we place on our cars is really open to interpitation.

Right now we are facing the issue of repop bodies.It doesnt seem like an issue,but what is the difference between repoping entire bodies and hangining you vin tag onto it or just hangining every repop part on your existing VIN tag?

LEts say you see a combine mowing down a feild out in the middle of nowhere when all of a sudden the combine stops because something is stuck in it's blades?You get out to see what heppened,and it turns out that the combine driver just ran over a genuine RS/SS ZL1 Baldwin Motion Camaro.It is the only one ever build and from the alumimnum shards under the wheels of the combine you can see that the ZL1 mill is under the hood.You pick the car up and pencil trace the VIN,and apply for a title.Then you call up a few parts houses and order a new roofskin,full floorpans,a cowl panel and firewall sections,all the exterior panels,The trunk floor panels and all the rest of the stuff to restore the car.You then go on Ebay and buy a donor car for the subframe.The next thing you know,your camaro is reborn.This is about how far gone at least a 1/3 of all the remaining undiscovered supercars really are.So I guess it is all relitive.

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The difference is that you are restoring an existing car by removing and replacing rusted parts that were on it originally, not faking or creating another. If you look at the fine print on the new repro body shells, they specifically state "check with your local motor vehicle laws" about titling the car prior to purchasing the shell.

Until the laws are changed, it will still be a felony to rivet a VIN onto a car that it did not come on originally. Seriously, if people want to get some type of "restoration exemption" clause in the Federal and State statutes then they better start working their Senators and Congressman about it.