Incorrect dash vin tag
This is why I'm not really interested in paying the big bucks for "matching numbers cars". I'm sure the auction houses are full of these counterfeit vehicles as its so easy to do a re-body with the original documentation of an original car.
I have everything needed to re-create an original 69 Formula S FastBack at my house and if I had done it, it would be virtually undetectable. Every number, id plate, documentation, owners manual, Bill of sale, would have been in place.
As long as I'm alive it will be "garage art".
With today's technology, it is possible to re-create anything if the price is right. I'm betting a lot of the "original" Hemi Cuda's are rebody's/rebuilds.
Graveyard Cars had an episode about a Daytona Charger that I helped locate. I was running a thread about Old Musclecars and one of the respondents informed me about a Daytona Charger that was buried in his neighbourhood. Another aquaintance of mine went to the location and dug up the remains. He was then able to locate the original owner who still had the VIN, Data plate and Bill of sale. All of this was then sold to a person in Maine who approached Mark Worman about doing a rebody with the remains of the Daytona. After considering it Mark, to his credit, declined and the VIN # is now registered with the Daytona owners club as being destroyed.
I'm betting that somewhere down the road, this car will make an appearance again.
Here's a very old picture of the car provided by the original owner. He was also the owner of the first and only Hemi Daytona I ever rode in.
Here's the Graveyard Cars episode for this Daytona
This is why I'm not really interested in paying the big bucks for "matching numbers cars". I'm sure the auction houses are full of these counterfeit vehicles as its so easy to do a re-body with the original documentation of an original car.
I have everything needed to re-create an original 69 Formula S FastBack at my house and if I had done it, it would be virtually undetectable. Every number, id plate, documentation, owners manual, Bill of sale, would have been in place.
As long as I'm alive it will be "garage art".
With today's technology, it is possible to re-create anything if the price is right. I'm betting a lot of the "original" Hemi Cuda's are rebody's/rebuilds.
Graveyard Cars had an episode about a Daytona Charger that I helped locate. I was running a thread about Old Musclecars and one of the respondents informed me about a Daytona Charger that was buried in his neighbourhood. Another aquaintance of mine went to the location and dug up the remains. He was then able to locate the original owner who still had the VIN, Data plate and Bill of sale. All of this was then sold to a person in Maine who approached Mark Worman about doing a rebody with the remains of the Daytona. After considering it Mark, to his credit, declined and the VIN # is now registered with the Daytona owners club as being destroyed.
I'm betting that somewhere down the road, this car will make an appearance again.
Here's a very old picture of the car provided by the original owner. He was also the owner of the first and only Hemi Daytona I ever rode in.
Here's the Graveyard Cars episode for this Daytona
