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Do we anywhere on this board have an Attorney and a Law Enforcement employee with sufficient credibility who could offer up some real time answers on these reproduction bodies?
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Go back a page and re-read.
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Steve,
Very neat topic indeed! Question for you: I just got an out of state vehicle inspected by a certified state inspector who was directly employed by the state DMV. The inspection was little more than a glance at the vin number and the title. Nothing else was checked.
Now lets assume that the "body gestapo" inspectors are being trained someplace out there right now.....
That would tell me that there is some standardized process of inspection that is a result of or has been derived from state or federal law someplace Right?
Why don't you locate just one of these this statutes, and a corresponding legal opinion that have been upheld in one court case on this very topic.
I just want to be real sure that we are not mixing opinion in this thread from statutes designed to preclude auto chop shops (stolen cars) from VIN# switching.
VIN# switching- where the body and its parts are stolen and a new VIN# is assigned with the intent to cover the theft.
The application of this lawmaking would be designed to convict auto theft chop shop operators.
So I am left to ponder the applicability of such a law to a ligitimate auto restoration processes or custom car builder applications where ownership of the vehicle/Title/parts is not at all in question.
Heck Just post a link to one case. Educate us!!
Phil