[Racefan]

Rich, here is another interesting question that has come up before. What if you were to dig the car up and restore it. Then call the Highway Patrol to verify the hidden VIN to title the car. Then on the search, they find that the VIN in question is already registered to someone!? What happens then? Who is in trouble? What if the orignal perpetrator has sold the car as real for a large sum of money and the new owner is completely convinced his car is real because it has all the right trim/VIN tags? So, the question comes back to which car is REAL? The one that you unearthed or the completely frame off beauty that sports the tags? According to the law the freshly unearthed car was the true car ending in VIN XXXX56. I wish I could say that this is only a "what if"......... but I can say with some degree of certainty that the situation is completely real. The only thing that is a "what if" is that no one has dug up the original XXXX56 YET. I have a gut feeling that there are more cars out there just like this, and there are those "in the know" who know about the questionable nature of them. But, no one is talking. I don't mean to bring this up to cause trouble or point fingers (that is why I don't mention any more specifics) but only to say that we can complain about the 'vette guys and so forth--but no group is without its skeletons. It, unfortunately, is a part of the game as soon as the values become what they have become.