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Hey njsteve,

I agree with you about the legal issues. My question to you and the group is if this was done how would you know this had happened? You would not have anything to go by except the finished product that set before you. Through examination of the car how could you say with certainty this had occured? Heresay doesn't hold up in court, ( or not most of the time anyway) and there would be no physical evidence. How about that new unibody? How can you use that if you can't number it? I don't know how the paper issues would have been handled but in 1974 I worked at an AMC dealership and you could buy a whole unibody from the factory which they referred to as a body in white. The purpose was to replace the structure on a badly damaged car by taking all the mechanicals and transferring them over to the new body. You could get them in colors and were actually available during the current production of the body. They were generally not available after the current body production had stopped. I suppose this could get to be a bit of a touchy thing as no one wants to encourage this nor wants to fall victim to it, but other than fear of prosecution or ones on ethical feelings toward the subject how would you know? I would think that if an original camaro unibody was used and the date codes on the sheetmetal were within the production date of the original car, the unibody was either chemically stripped or sandblasted to remove all old traces of paint and the car then assembled and restored you would not know. I think it is like all other criminal activity. We only know what the ones did that have been caught. The successful ones have gotten away with it and I bet someone is driving one of them right now. Whether we like it or not, the truth is the truth and it is what it is.