[talwell]

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I know where there is a RS COPO car right now.It has been a race car since 1971.It has the original VIN in the dash,the firewall ends under the windsheld.The floors and frame rails are gone from the toe boards to the tail panel.The firewall with all the hidden VIN's are gone.,The front subframe was cut short at the firewall,and a tube frame built from there back,has the area under the engine cut out and rack and pinion steering installed.The car has the original rockers,roof with inner structure,rear quarters and tail panel.All the bolt on sheet metal is fiberglass now.Original engine/trans/rear.suspention ect are all long gone.If this car were to turned up restored using the metal that remains including fixing the original front subframe what would you classify it as.It would need one of those full floorpan/firewall assemblies,inner and outer wheehouse,the 1/4's would have to be unradiused,and a donor subframe would have to be used to fix the original.

I also have reason the belieive that I know where Grumpy's 68 Camaro is,and it is modified to this extent and is on a tube frame and has no VIN or firewall at all.Would that car be saveable?

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Rich-

In my opinion if what you say is still there could be saved and built around to assemble a completed shell I would call that a restore - not a rebody. In my eyes a rebody is when a completely seperate body has the trim & vin tags transferred to it - and that body having been another car at some time and now being represented as the original car that the tags came from. Lets not mention Dynacorn bodies - besides teh terrible quality any of those shells that finds a period VIN or trim tag is criminal and illegal.