Rebodied cars and do they get certified

[Belair62]

Exactly the type of scenario most people have a funny feeling about......and that is why this is such an interesting subject...and now you look at a car like this and it has COPO Connection certification or even the original paperwork,POP etc....the VIN is correct...and trim is correct and checked back to a Yenko Inventory sheet so it must be real right ? Wrong...so now you buy this car...the old car rears it's ugly head and you are all screwed in one way or another because instead of going thru the ridiculously expensive restoration of a hulk someone chose to go the lazy (or smart) way of throwing the tags on a clean body...how is the guy looking at the car or verifying the car supposed to see this ? I would guess that most people would prefer NOT to own a car like this and thats why it becomes a "secret"...until someone finds the real car hulk that was left behind...if you look at it from a money standpoint...it has to be much cheaper to rebody a car....any restoration guys want to guess at the cost difference between restoring a nasty car with NOS sheetmetal and simply restoring a clean body shell and dropping it on ???