So....What is YOUR opinion on VIN swaps ?

This is why my 67 barracuda will never amount to anything in the collector car world. Originally a slant sux 3 on the tree bench seat combo with no a/c and manual everything. Only options it had as built was a trip odometer and a vacuum gage. The underhood data plate was long gone as was bench seat and the back seat which included the broadcast sheet. I am building it how i want, still has the slant sux vin tag. So be it. I'm not building it to flip otherwise i would have started with a more valuable optioned one.

Not trying to play the devils advocate here however what about the brand new dynacorn bodies? You can now get 67-68 mustang fastback bodies, 68-69 camaro coupe and convertible bodies, i believe even 70 challenger and 70 barracuda bodies. These all come with a certificate of origin. As a matter of fact classic industries sells a brand new challenger "skeleton" this is the complete body minus rear quarters, roof skin, dutchman, and taillight panel.

So a guy has the $10k or so and buys a brand new body, and has a rusted all to **** mustang coupe, camaro, challenger, or cuda with good clean paperwork and swaps everything into a factory new body shell including ALL the vin tags, body number stampings included. If thats illegal, then the gubmint would have put a stop to them selling these bodies.

Maybe they are legal because they have a certificate of origin that comes with them and the intent is always to swap everything into them including all the vin numbers. They were not a /6 car or anything else to begin with. Maybe the thought behind this is that every one of those original vin stamped car bodies at some point in time coming down the assembly line were not stamped either until a certain point in the assembly process. And until they were stamped with numbers they were all the same.

I dunno just a thought. I know if i had a hemi or 440+6 challenger or cuda that was truk lagoon rusty and completely unfixable, id probably concider a dynacorn rebody before just parting it out and crushing it. Would that be as decietful as using a 318 car as a body donor, or less decietful since its a new bare body that never had any numbers stamped into it?