Thread: VIN tag problem
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Old 02-09-2023, 10:42 PM
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Several comments have been posted noting that, when viewing from the rear, the roof and the floor pan / rear clip don't align. And it's not even close. Easy to conclude that maybe at some point this body (whatever VIN it may have been born with) was stripped down to a birdcage and nothing more, then the entire backend tacked on piece by piece.

Some people are talented enough to do that and end up with everything fitting and being square. But most aren't. Whoever did this car should have stuck to the change-one-piece-at-a-time approach.

I know a guy that sent a decent 67 Chevelle body to an "approved AMD installer" who said it needed everything (which it really didn't, but ... ). They stripped it down to the cage and put all repro metal on it. When done, one side at the back was almost 4" off from the other side. Yet somehow they got a decklid to fit on it ??? So he aborted and sold that project, and moved on to a rust free car instead!
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