Help... Vin #'s dont match

Mr Gorsky said
Yes you do. We all do.

Every old school Mopar out there is a clone of the car it once was. It is not the original car. It's panels have been replaced, it's seats are new, it's battery tray is a replica of the original. IT'S ALL A MATTER OF DEGREES.

You are a number Nazi. You see the ultimate parts repair (the whole shell) as illegal. I don't.

I have no issue with rebodies. IT'S ALL A MATTER OF DEGREES.

Yes, it's against the law to rebody a car, but tell me....once you start replacing parts, where does the law tell you to stop??

Riddle me that, Batman.

Doesn't matter. The entire car can change as long as the numbers don't. I don't make the rules. I think it's completely idiotic that one challenger is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars because it came with a Hemi while the challenger that rolled off the line 5 minutes later with a /6 is worth tens of thousands. Bolt a crate Hemi in that /6 car and it's still not worth hundreds of thousands, just because of the numbers on the dash. It's idiotic, it's the same car at that point.

But someone decided the value was in the original numbers, and that's the law. And if you make money by changing the numbers around, that's fraud.

DECIPHER said
Why do you think there is some requirement to report? That is why car fax got in hot water. They were over playing what info they really could get or had access to. It's all public record items like police report of a accident or the insurance report of claim paid etc. only if a vehicle is deemed a total loss by a insurance does the law require an inspection to be road worthy again.

Road worthy has nothing to do with it. If you have to change panels with VIN numbers, you have to report. Otherwise you get a car with multiple or missing VINs and no record of how it got that way, and that's how stolen cars get made "legitimate" again. It's all about the numbers. You have to report, otherwise it's VIN tampering.