Thoughts on a 440 'Cuda

[njsteve]

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Don't get me wrong, I'm as anti-rebody as anyone... but my point is that its already been done on the car in question...i think its a GREAT thing that the car is openly being described by the seller as what it is, rather than just passed off as something else, leaving some unsuspecting buyer to find the skeletons in the closet later. Are you saying he's foolish in doing this and should hide what's been done to the car in his description?

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The seller is stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. I would not buy that car with it's historical baggage. I really dont know what the seller can do at this point. I think the seller is trying to get the info out there to possibly limit his civil liability if someones thinks the car was misrepresented as an original body car. But his verbage in the auction is something of an admission in a criminal sense, even though he had no part in the body swap. It shows he has knowledge of the VIN swap. He most likely would not be facing any criminal charges but he (or anyone that buys the car) could very easily lose the car to a police seizure as contraband. And if a buyer loses the car in a seizure, then the buyer would then try to sue the seller. But since the buyer was fully aware that it was a body swap, the buyer would probably lose the lawsuit based on the fact that he bought it with full knowledge that it was swapped.

Wow, that last paragraph is beginning to sound like the famous verbal duel in "The Princess Bride" between the Dread Pirate Roberts and the Sicilian Kidnaper, over which glass of wine contained the Iocaine poison in it!