Market for survivors...

[RichSchmidt]

I am not sure if it could be something that would lead to "doin time". I was talking about real legit numbers matching cars that needed a full restoration,but rather than being given what could be considered a traditional "back to new" restoration,they were restored in an exacting way as to make everything look as if it has been sealed in a climate controlled vault for the last 50 years and never driven. Certainly such a car would attract huge money. Maybe aside from odometer fraud it would be hard to define where any other wrong doing took place. Every used car on the lot today was "owned by a little old lady who only drove it on Sundays" even if it was driven by a chain smoker who dribbled big mac sauce all over the interior and never changed the oil. Is there any legal difference between that lie and a lie about how a 50 year old car was taken care of? That is where things get fuzzy.

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by RichSchmidt

I am not sure if it could be something that would lead to "doin time". I was talking about real legit numbers matching cars that needed a full restoration,but rather than being given what could be considered a traditional "back to new" restoration,they were restored in an exacting way as to make everything look as if it has been sealed in a climate controlled vault for the last 50 years and never driven. Certainly such a car would attract huge money. Maybe aside from odometer fraud it would be hard to define where any other wrong doing took place. Every used car on the lot today was "owned by a little old lady who only drove it on Sundays" even if it was driven by a chain smoker who dribbled big mac sauce all over the interior and never changed the oil. Is there any legal difference between that lie and a lie about how a 50 year old car was taken care of? That is where things get fuzzy.

It isn't what you do with the car . . . it's how you describe it in an effort to sell it. If you are committing fraud by misrepresenting the car - that's a felony. That's jail time.

[RichSchmidt]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

It isn't what you do with the car . . . it's how you describe it in an effort to sell it. If you are committing fraud by misrepresenting the car - that's a felony. That's jail time.

That is what I am talking about. If you go to a used car dealer and the dealer tells you that the car that you are looking at was owned by a little old lady who kept it in a garage and drove it across town and back only on sunny days and you buy the car and some young pun walks up to you and says that he used to own that car and can't believe what a great job the dealer did of getting the bodily fluid stains out of the interior,and fixing the knock in the engine that was caused by never changing the oil,do you have recourse for that? Or the dealer tells you that the car"has a clean car fax" but doesn't tell you that the car was wrapped around a pole but didn't get fixed by the insurance company etc.

BTW,what is with some of these "legal rebodies" these days?