Guys this entire thread is getting a case of rot. Come on--anyone "in the know" would be able to pick out a body with significant patching, welding or repair work, before you buy it. With that said there are also some people who will be fooled.
The same with these Dynacorn bodies, Without the key fisher body date stamps in the sheet metal they are what they are.
I really doubt that someone buying a high dollar car that has been recreated back to that of say- a COPO, Z/28, or SS is going to get bit on one of these Dynacorn bodies, and if they do, well they deserve it, along with everything else that is faked and restamped these days....
Lets face it If the cars were not worth as much as they are we would not be having this thread and its discussion.
Frankly the Muscle car values we see today is a "bull market" that we have all collectively created through the sharp price increases in value of these cars over the past few years. This trend is currently nostalgia driven, and will eventually drop off and level out.
There is always an investment that looks great, but you gotta understand what it is that YOU are buying, and what YOU know about it that will make or break the value of the sale. Where there is money to be made there will always be crooks there to "hoodwink" the uninformed.
You can also "hoodwink" a guy by selling him a repaired rust bucket driver quality musclecar - that consists of a significantly repaired original body - much the same way. Lets say that this body that has had inners, outers, floors, quarters, rockers, outer tail, inner tail, entire trunk floor and rear frame replaced and all rewelded up by some one...(Who knows who-or his qualifications) Perhaps the firewall, Driveshaft tunnel and the inner rocker support beams are still original and correct. The concern then shifts to safety of the driver and its occupants being that the overall percentage of the original body that remains after the repair is so low.
Original factory tolerences and measurements Become a real concern in a repair job like this yet there WAS pieces of an original body there to start with. You might be able to use lots of undercoat and filler to cover all of this work up, but if it is a big dollar car and you are "in the know" you are gonna find this work.
You then make the decision to buy or not. Same thing with a Dynacorn body, the execption being that the Dynacorn body will be less likely to have a catastrophic weld failure which could cost you your life- after you decide to launch your rebuilt toy hard some saturday night.
I guess I am having a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal??
Phil
