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Is this legal?

The VIN number switching has been debated on many levels. Most say not good but it would depend on the state laws where he is.

Selling the car should have no issue.....but it would sound better if he disassembled it and sold parts. The buyer would have to get a state issued VIN after meeting those requirements for a lost title/VIN which could be an issue too.

Lots of headaches unless used as a parts car IMHO.
 
Who knows anymore. Since the Dynacorn body is sold as a replacement part, it's like replacing a fender, only on a bigger scale. Just put a new body under the VIN number. :part
 
" The only problem is some shelves fell over onto the car in the garage where it was been stored."

Oh, as long as that's the ONLY problem. Those shelves sure did a lot of damage.

Frank
 
"AzPete" said:
The VIN number switching has been debated on many levels. Most say not good but it would depend on the state laws where he is.

Selling the car should have no issue.....but it would sound better if he disassembled it and sold parts. The buyer would have to get a state issued VIN after meeting those requirements for a lost title/VIN which could be an issue too.

Lots of headaches unless used as a parts car IMHO.
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It would be easier to put a coupe vin on it, then the roof onto a coupe... Just sayin.
 
The Feds get pissed about it also. Is that not one of the biggies that took out Unique Performance???

18 USCS 2321

C&P don't work on Stangfix, but if you do this, we will put your but in prison for 10, yes that's "ten" years.
 
Here in the Golden State, the Dynacorn car can be registered as a '67 under S.B. 100 for smog purposes but the VIN is issued by the CHP. The only reason the seller is moving the VIN is to give him the opportunity to represent the Dynacorn car as an original Ford, which it is not. Why is fraud so hard for people to understand?
 
If its 100% rust free, why spend 18 grand on a dynacorn when that one needs some minor body work????
 
He probably got an insurance payout for the damage, now he is trying to cash in on the body and make more money off it. $13000 for a body with no vin seems a bit high to me.
 
it seams like fraud to put the VIN on the new body but is selling a car with the the actual VIN removed legal? How do we know he didn't steal that body?
I would think it should be destroyed if the VIN is used on another car.
Also I agree with all the other comments. I think it would have been cheaper to fix this body than start over and yes, 13Ks is a lot of money for a body with no VIN that needs at least a door skin, fender, cowl, roof skin, full quarter, trunk lid, etc. etc.
 
"tarafied1" said:
I think it would have been cheaper to fix this body than start over and yes, 13Ks is a lot of money for a body with no VIN that needs at least a door skin, fender, cowl, roof skin, full quarter, trunk lid, etc. etc.
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Hey man when you are going to build an eleanor that will sell for $250k you don't need to worry about stuff like that.
 
Do you have something against Eleanor?

but seriously, would you buy this for 13K or buy a Dynacorn for a little more... neither have a VIN and the Dynacorn is much closer to being ready than this will be time he strips all the usable parts off of it. I'd pay a little more for the Dynacorn that I know isn't stolen.

anyway, I think I'm going to steal Craig's FB, cut the VIN off then sell the shell on eBay saying I needed the VIN for a Dynacorn body. :confu
 
"tarafied1" said:
Do you have something against Eleanor?
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Nope. Every time one of those is made it makes my own cars rarer and every time one of those is sold for a strangely high price...it makes my own cars worth more. Or so I have heard. Some of them float like old school bettles too I hear :thu :gs :hide :part :roll
 
I don't have a problem "replacing" the body, if there is a standard or legal way. Personally with the craze for 67/68 FB's, I don't think anybody who wants one bad enough will care if the car does not have a Ford VIN or that the body is new unless they want an "original" car. The Eleanor fans would not care, they are probably Rock Stars, Football or sports stars. The normal Joe can't afford 200K for a toy. Even if they float.
 
As I noted on another post, here's a note in Hemmings Muscle Machines about Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale this winter:

"The top-earning muscle car (that wasn't sold for charity) was a 1969 Camaro ZL1 with an automatic transmission that changed hands for $451,000.

The car was drag-raced when new and restored to original condition more than 20 years ago while it was owned by Floyd Garrett, of the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum. Due to the extensive modifications performed on the car for racing, it was re-bodied with another Camaro shell; the soft parts of the interior were replaced with a standard Camaro interior from a donor car; and the engine, apparently a casualty of racing, was replaced with a correct, though non-numbers-matching, replacement ZL-1 engine"

Now if the body was replaced, the engine was replaced and the interior was replaced what the HELLL made it so valuable as a historic race car? Fraid? Nah since they told you up front how dumb you are to bid this high. :shrug
 
I have George Washington's axe that he used to cut down the Cherry tree. It's had five new handles and three new heads over the years but it was his axe!
 
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