[njsteve]

The inspectors are retired or current law enforcement officers who are checking for obvious VIN issues like VIN swaps, bad rivets, non matching dash VINS when compared to the body VINs, etc. They do not certify car's as "authentic". They are only checking for law violations in a rapid triage line during initial check-in.

When I was at Mecum Indy there was a couple rows of cars that were moved to the "lot of misfit toys" where they parked those cars that did not pass the inspections. One was a 69 Judge. Several street rods, too. But cars get through - there was a horrendous VIN tagged 1971 440-6 barracuda convertible with a real BS27V VIN tag that had it's body vin welded over with another body VIN section on top. The attempt was at least 3/8" taller than the surrounding metal on the cowl. The dash VIN was held on with Home Depot rivets...