Classic cars remade new. Replacement shells.

Where I work at RPC, we are the nations largest Dynacorn dealer. I sell a TON of their replacement sheet metal parts, and everything else they sell. We sell a lot of their replacement body shells as well. In fact we sold 6 last month. Two 68 mustang fastbacks, a 67 fastback, and three camaros. Most of our customers that a buying one of these replacement shells has a donor car. But a number of them are building the car from scratch. I have been asked on numerous occasions this question. "Can I just take the vin and data tags from from donor car and put them on this one?" And my standard answer is "It's your car. I don't know what the legal ramifications are, so I can't advise you of that." Now, these shells come with their own serial number that is riveted to the firewall down low, and they also come with a certificate of title. Whatever the guy does with the car is his business. Not mine. All states differ as to how the cars are registered in that state. Whether its a "Hot rod" or "Custom build" I don't know. The Challenger body's have been put on hold for now, with no real date as to when they will begin building them. I can tell you that if I had the Challenger shells available for sale, I would sell the $hit out of them. There is a demand for them.

Interesting about the bodies having there own #. My "bike in a box" came with mco (manufactures certificate of origin), think that is what they were called. Went down to DMV with the 3 of them, motor trans and frame, walked out with a vin tag to stick on the bike. Did not even bring the bike with me.

Would imagine some of what you can get away with as far as the title is up to the owner. If you have a vin and title how would dmv know that the car has been re-bodied? Does it make it legal? Interpretation goes along way here. Like you said, every state will be different. Bring a vehicle into the state of AZ and you need to go have the vin verified......bring a vehicle into WA state and you do not.

Someone mentioned about all the previous threads on here about re-tagging a body. In my opinion, this is a bit different. The body you are buying was never anything but some sheet metal. When a person takes a / car and "clones" it into a "numbers matching" car they are taking a car that was something and turning it into something else. A bit different but in some folks eyes still the same as buying an un-tagged "new" body. Now that I have confused the snot out of myself I am going to crawl back into my corner.