Thoughts on rebodied GTS

I'm not sure about Ontario where the car is but in British Columbia you can do it legally. It's how lots of hot rod guys do it here. Here its called an Amalgamated car. You submit the VINs and what portions of the cars were used from each VIN to our ICBC (our provincial registration and insurance company ) along with a provincial safety inspection (done by a certified shop and tech). If approved they will send you a new BC assigned VIN to the shop that did the inspection and they will install it for you (usually on the body part of the door jam). The old VINs are tied to the new VIN.

I had to do this for a customer a few years ago as he bought a Chevelle from the USA and the two VIN's didn't match up (dash and body), as we are required to sight at least two matching VIN's for our inspection.

Any car that has been brought in from out of the province requires our provincial inspection as well as any rebuilt from salvage vehicle and many commercial vehicles and such.

PS. One quick way to tell if a car is real or not is to see if it has any torque boxes (this car does not). Most BB or 4 speed cars as well as convertibles got two or 4 torque boxed welded in. My 340 car has all 4, but as usual in the weird world of Mopars some performance cars didn't get any at all apparently.

Garth