Interesting VIN number on 68 Barracuda

My 67 notch has the vin pop riveted in the door jamb. I dont know why they started to put them on the dash in 68. I used to own a 1960 el camino many years ago. The stainless steel vin plate on those was spot welded in the door jamb. If you tried to remove it you would destroy it to get it off. I remember a friend changing the dash pad in his 74 cuda and the vin being riveted to the pad itself. It was almost like the carmakers were making it easier to misrepresent a car by then. As far as the 90%-10% question posed by the previous post, i have to say you use the vin of the vehicle you are rebuilding even if only 10% of it is left, not the vin off the donor. If the car is that far gone that you have to use 90% of a donor car, then the one your fixing must be pretty rare and valuable because thats a lot of work to go through.

I have seen pix on this site in the restoration section of a guy restoring i think it was a 67 or 68 383 4 speed formula S vert. This thing was truk lagoon rusty. He stashed it away in the corner of his shop until enough repop steel became available, what was left of the original car body by the time he replaced all the rotten steel was essentially the cowl and windshield frame, rocker panels, the radiator support, along with the structure in the back that houses the convertible top, and the trunk weatherstrip rails. A lot of work yes, but for an irreplaceable vehicle. I think he installed rust free used framerails off a donor car. In this case which vin would you use? Dont know about y'all , but i'm gonna go with the vin off the original 383 4 speed vert.