Steel '69 Crate Camaro

[Pantera]

If you should change the firewall and or remove the vin plate and put it on a new part you are violating a fed law. You are risking the feds conficistcating your car.

Now if you save the firewall, and expecially the hidden vin # (or as much is still good) and put it on a new body work then you would be much safer with the authorites. It is against a federal law to alter or remove a vin plate for any reason.

I learnd this the hard way with a wrecked '84 vette that I still have in storage. The guy I bought it from had stolen a nice car and removed the vin plate off mine and put it on the nice car that he stole.

I was found to be the legal and righfull owner of the wrecked car and he went to jail. I cannot recover the original vin plate but will have to do a state assigned vin plate if I put the car back on the road. I was planing on building a street car that looked like the IMSA corvettes back about that time but have since lost interest. Car only hss 60k on it.

So before you do something like this you should think hard about who wants to have them impound thier car for trying to do the right thing.

Do we have a fed on here that can give us a legal opinion?
Plese do your homework before you remove a vin plate. The feds just might ruin your day.

Pantera
former bodyshop owner.