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Here is a link to a car that is close to a rebody, yet still is not.
http://agar.homestead.com/myridesbarrelcuda.html
I would give it a rebody pass. The owner is very up front on pictures before it was painted (baremetal firewall/cowl), its donor material (not a complete roller), the tons of work done to salvage it. I would consider it a legal car.
now is this maybe also a proper rebody by some? or is that even more metal replacement than this car? note the owner of this cuda in the link is not calling his car a rebody.
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That rustbucket has been beat to death on Moparts.com for two years now. There were PLENTY of donor parts involved with the car, but according to the guy that did the work and from the pictures it was not a rebody, but rather a patchwork quilt of many donor parts.
I hope he had a REALLY level floor and all of the body dimension measurements and USED them when he welded everything back togather or it will fold up like an accordian upon impact.
This is a good example of how DISCLOSURE that everyone thinks should take place with a rebody but SELDOM happens with a "restoration" such as this, can KILL the saleability of a car. From all the comments on Moparts.com, even though the guy spent a lot of money and time on the car, it has been shunned. It WAS for sale for a long time with no luck.
If ALL of the "restored" cars out there showed the resto process (and many are just like this one) do you think they would bring the money they did upon sale if the buyer saw them? I think not.