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Scenerio # 1. You have a 1969 Dodge Charger with a 426 hemi engine that is a total rust bucket, but after referring to an AMD catalog you feel the car can be repaired if you use their 25 aftermarket body panels that were stamped in China and also a used cowl from the wrecking yard. Is this a 1969 Dodge Charger manufactured by Chrysler Corporation or a hand built 1969 Dodge Charger built by a body shop that still has four original body panels that came from Detroit, one of which is not even original to that particular car but it is a Chrysler built part.

Scenerio # 2 Same car as above but you want to restore it with "real" 1969 Chrysler Corporation steel so you find a 1969 Dodge Charger with a 318 V8 that is in pristine condition. You buy it and you swap the engine, transmission, differential, fender tag, VIN tag, from the hemi powered car, into the 318 car. You stamp the radiator support and the left rain gutter with the correct numbers from the hemi powered car to complete the transformation of the 318 car. You then buy the two reinforcement panels from AMD that are needed to box in the rear spring areas and you have the car stripped of its paint, the dents are fixed and the car is painted with the color stamped on the fender tag. Is this a real 1969 Dodge Charger?

Are both cars fakes? Is one real and the other a fake? Which one?

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Number 1 is a real car. It was built that way at the factory. Number 2 is a fake, always will be a fake. If the car is too far gone to restore it, removing the vin and putting it onto a another body is wrong for this hobby.I won't even talk about whats legal. Now if you don't agreed with me that's cool, but ponder this. You go to big time auction and drop 75k on the dream car you always wanted.
a few months later you find out somehow that this is not a "AAR Cuda", but was a 6 cyl. car. Paperwork with car,fender tag and Vin match AAR.
Are you like" That's Cool, still an AAR.....