Original vs Correct,, New Body Acceptable?

[MotownMadman]

Whitetop, As I stated earlier I have never done a rebodie, yet I would not rule it out if the situation called for a extremely rare car and no other way to fix it. As for the ZL-1 in the link? That body is a piece of cake to fix, I have personally fixed many worse as I also live in the salt belt, and the pollution in Detroit in the seventies I can assure you was just as bad if not worse than Ohio. COPO Pete made a good point...when you get a new heart you do not become the other person. As for the FBI mentioned earlier on in this thread, believe me they have bigger fish to fry then a guy trying to save or restore his classic car. I will not go into the details on how I know that, but I do have experience with law enforement at the federal level. It all comes back to buyer awareness and what the owner and/or buyer is comfortable with, but I would not buy a high dollar restored car without a complete photo record.
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[MotownMadman]

Anybody got a rule book? I beat a guy once in Detroit in a high dollar street race who said it wasnt fair because he couldnt hear to shift his car after I pulled a cable to uncap my headers. Everybody there got a chuckle out of it when somebody asked him to see the rule book on street racing. I made one of the "Street Freaks" issues of Car Craft in the seventies for having one of the fastest cars on the steets, long before Pro Street was born. The only official rules I know of when it comes to restorations are moral ones. if the intention of the restorer is to decieve someone then that would definetly be breaking the rules. As I have stated numerous times I dont agree with a rebody, the purpose of this thread was to be awareness as to ways to protect from buying something that is not what it is represented to be. That goes back to having a photo record of every restoration, just a different type of documentation. The real crime in the collector car world these days is the guy who takes a plain jane Chevelle and passes it off as an SS, which from what I have been reading in earlier posts here can be done. We have to remember that a lot of these cars are restored not for resale, but for the owners enjoyment, in which case no one has a right to tell the guy how to restore his car. If he does end up selling it for whatever reason and gives the new owner full disclosure who buys it anyway....well so be it. If that guy sells it and doesnt tell the next guy... well than they both are at fault, the seller for being decietful, and the buyer for not being smart enough to investigate what he is spending his money on. Yes, I do build street rods, which really has nothing to do with this discussion, as I was also driving a 69 427 Camaro in 1972, a car which I bought wrecked and fixed using its original body. I was collecting muscle cars when everybody else was throwing them away due to the gas and insurance crisis, and I owned a Yenko when their owners were peeling the stripes because nobody liked them. With respect to my background I believe I am somewhat qualified to have an opinion on this issue, as with most if not all of the other members here. Motown [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

[69rsss350]

You might get more respect (?) if we knew your name not just your handle. There is a place to post it in your profile. If you choose to remain anonymous, expect nothing.

[MotownMadman]

Mike, I wont use this forum as a method of personal attacks, I sent you a PM to explain my position.
Thanks,
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