[RichSchmidt]

As far as I know,the majority of scrutiny is aimed at the hidden vin stamped from inside the firewall over the heater box.This is impossible to duplicate,but if the original car had a clean panel in this area,and you did a good job of cutting the panel out of the old car and grafting it into a cleaner original body,you would despell 80 percent of the naysayers.There are also numbers on the subframe,so it would be beter to use the original one.I know 2nd gens had the number at the tail end of the driver's side subframe rail,but I think 1st gens had a number behind the steering box.Of course unless the donor car was chem striped or media blasted by a real expert,you would find old paint that could signal a color mismatch.It is really up to the buyer to check this all out before buying a car.I dont doubt that at least a few rebodies will show up over the years.The sad part is that once it is discovered,you can kind of assume that the original is a toyota by now.