well. she did come back clean, and my uncle who is a law enforcement officer also restores vetts, so he is using his resources available to him in trying to track my or the six's vin to a current registered car in the tri-state and new england area, no luck yet, our best luck has been contacting former owners through past bills of sale and registrations in the car, its worked well so far back to the mid seventies, right now I'm trying to see if that owner sold the tags to a friend who gave him his six's to slap on when selling car as parts. My uncle says its a federal offense to place wrong tags on a car whether you buy them or not so they could lose the whole car if they don't give them up when found(the main problem w/ swithchin tags isn't theft, these cars were 5000 new back then , it was taking a car and committing a big time crime and dumping the vehicle w/ bogus tags to avoid evidence getting traced back to you, he says the whole reason the companies had to place the vin stamp in the heater box and cowl was that not many criminals wwere either knowledgeable or thorough enough to belt sand these off to cover tracks,many didn't even know where they are, Your also forgetting one important point in determining these cars for resale, I've had guys tell me PM to just have new tags made and placed on car, they speak as if they've done it before, that scares me for whoever bought their stuff at auction, in conclusion, we'll be doing the resto ourselves, for 50,000 I could do 3 67's over from scratch, I'd never pay the kind of money at auction some pay, its like legalized gambling you hope its real , you tell youreslf its a good investment like real estate and you can't lose, well like the stock market good luck if the market turns. I see it this way I paid 500 for her we'll do everything in house from engine rebuild, to welding to paint, and we'll enjoy doing it not because what it may be worth in the future, but because we enjoy making something from just about nothing and we can use it for 15yrs and paint it again, in my eyes if A car doesn't have its orig drivetrain ( which is really what seperated these cars from the flock) well than its worth about what my unorig 327 67' is worth since they look identical, about5000 to 8000 if I sell it at prime time at a car show in the spring, hey guys its just a neglected car nobody took the time to take care of, its not the cure for cancer, ya know.
