70 cuda title and tags and block

[WP29440SE]

and what about all these people that are replacing their standard dashes with rallye dashes? they are removing the VIN tag and putting it on a new dash and putting it back in the car, all of the sudden thats illegal too ? i dont think so. whats the difference in re-building your entire car around the dash because the whole car is trashed. just like the burnt AAR cuda for sale on Ebay, if one were to rebuild that car , there would be only the dash VIN left that is original to the car. 99.9% of all the sheet would have to be replaced. im not for re-bodying anything, but at what point is the car not original any more? the dash frame? the firewall ? a frame rail ? the bolts that hold the dash frame in? the matching numbers package tray? if you have a rusted to the core hemi cuda with a bashed in front end and destroyed quarters, both with numbers on them, you obviously have to replace them with new metal, so are you going to cut the numbers out and put them on the new metal? so you have a mint parts car, are you going to cut it into pieces only to reweld it all back together again using the dash frame as a foundation ? all hypothetically speaking of course.......just food for thought....
its obviously not illegal to "rebuild" a car. where is line drawn ? if you have a genuine hemi cuda that has had a replacement quarter or parts core support with a different sequence number , or no numbers at all, now you are in the realm of "faking" a muscle car when in fact the car is real.
the proverbial "catch 22"

 

[jessipup]

One thing to keep in mind. when the law finds one of those cars it WILL be confiscated and he who has it will be out all of the money they spent on thier best day. On thier worst day? Should the law find that the person in possesion of said vehicle have anything to do with the fraudlent re-title? then it will be three hots and a cot, don't bend over to pick up the soap.
Many years ago I bought a sporty and called the law to make sure all was on the up and up and they said it was ok.
Well guess what when I went to title it? The owner had given it to someone to repair and he sold it, it went through a few hands but he was a noce guy and let me keep it if I would help prosicute. Well hell yea I would. He worked in the courthouse and could have just taken it.
I got lucky and got out of that mess, sold it for 100 less than I paid and thought that was a cheep lesson. Now I call the DMV and they have been verry helpfull.

 

[99ss]

Its not fraudulent if the original VIN stays with the vehicle. Simple as that. I could be wrong though...LOL

 

[Meep-Meep]

Its not fraudulent if the original VIN stays with the vehicle. Simple as that. I could be wrong though...LOL

I would say you are right. But cutting the VIN section off and putting it on another car is. The difference comes down to how you word it. For example: "I cut the rad support out that has the VIN and put it on another car". That would be illegal. However, saying "I replaced virtually all of the sheet metal on this burned out car but the parts that had the original VIN were left intact". The former would make so much more sense from a labor standpoint, hence the justification for fraud. In the end you may not be able to tell the difference between either method of repair. I will still say that if a car needs that much work it is no longer the real car and should never bring top dollar.