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04-26-2007, 08:41 AM
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Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
I have just found out about a car on THIS site, and eBay that was from my home town. The car was, and has been a Canadian car for I think about 15 years, since I bought my Nova in or around 1995 and I think Jimmy had this car at the time, or shortly thereafter. The car was and is a 1970 Nova SS396. Now I think it had around 70K miles on it then. and the car NEVER had the original motor? Now I see the car for sale? DOCUMENTED and NUMBERS MATCHING with 31000 miles? Now I figured the guy who just bought the car within the last year MUST have re-stamped a block, since it was long gone, and turned back the miles? IS THIS RIGHT? Is this normal in the high-dollar car market? I know here in Ontario that tampering with the odometer of a car is illegal? What do you guys here think about this??
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04-26-2007, 08:55 AM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
I would say "Lucy you got some splainin to do"!!!!!!!
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04-26-2007, 05:42 PM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
In most states or at least mine in the Usa tampering with a speedo is a felony however the laws are dim once a car is 20 years old there is a piece of paper that is a as is buyer agreement that exempts seller from such things as a speedo reset when the buyer signs it maby someone found the original motor and figured it had 30 k miles on it and reset the speedo
 but that would still not be right I dont agree with that kind of stuff but thats just my opinion
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#4
05-02-2007, 11:32 PM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
just a tidbit for some of you that may not know, if white lines show up beteen the numbers on an odometer, its been messed with. I grew up in a part of chicago working at a gas station next to an erl schieb paint shop (plenty of painted stolen cars). there was a guy near there that specialized in odometer turnbacks (at the back of a tropical fish shop). I was into fish tanks and cars back then and he showed me how it was done bwecause I would hang around a lot (aka loser), and he said if you mess with them in anyway, the lines come up.
I have looked at some low mileage cars over the years, and more than you think have those white lines. I figure most know this, but if you did not, now you know. I really pissed of a guy once with a 'low mileage hemi car' when I said his odometer has been tampered with. It soon became an unknown milege hemi car.
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#5
05-03-2007, 01:00 AM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
The 'white line' deal depends on how it's done. If the spool is removed and re-registered, those 'lines' won't appear.
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Don't mistake education for intelligence. I worked with educated people. I socialize with intelligent people.
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#6
05-03-2007, 01:06 AM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
We've all seen dozens of tampered with odometers...and never known it.
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#7
05-03-2007, 04:43 AM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
wow.and i have set my odometer to zero on two of the cars i built! i only did it since they were ground up resto jobs.and i dont think the mileage really mattered since it surpassed the mechanicle limits of the odometer anyway.
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05-03-2007, 05:48 AM
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Re: Re-stamped engines and Lowering Miles
[ QUOTE ]
wow.and i have set my odometer to zero on two of the cars i built! i only did it since they were ground up resto jobs.and i dont think the mileage really mattered since it surpassed the mechanicle limits of the odometer anyway. [/ QUOTE ] There is no problem doing that if you were to sell it and disclosed that fact ,the problem is if down the line some one gets a new tittle and says oh its a original 15k mile car but that would be on them not you
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