Rebodied cars and do they get certified

[COPO]

So getting a donor body or two, cutting it up and then rewelding it piece by piece to the few bits salvageable from the "real car" is OK because it is more work and the real car is "fixed", than say back halving a clean intact donor onto the front of the "real car" ? I'm not picking on you, I just don't think this question is quite so black and white. There have been some good thoughts on both sides. Personally, I wouldn't want a car that has had extreme surgery like that and recently passed on a Supercar even though it was a good financial deal and a neat car.

[camarojoe]

You need to use the structure of the real car...that doesn't mean you can't do some major sheetmetal replacing, but i dont care how "bad" the car is, it can be fixed without replacing every square inch of car from the firewall back... If you don't have anything else but the firewall and tags of a real car, its a rebody.

As a side note to this... if you think its OK to replace the entire car with another car, leaving only the firewall and tags of the real one, then that would mean any clone yenko could become a real car if you found a rusty real yenko and welded the firewall to your clone... I don't think anyone anywhere would consider this clone to all the sudden become "real".... but yet thats essentially what you're saying is OK to do if youre starting with the rusty/damaged real car instead of the other way around.