russo and steel chop job camaro copo

[Stefano]

On a good note. I think that the advise and ideas presented on this site have filtered down to some of the Auctions.

While at Russo and Steele in Monterey California, a Gorgeous Muscle car, which I was going to bid on, came across, the block. It had good owner history, paperwork and matching numbers.

The Auction announced that the car was a "rebody" and the bids were tendered accordingly. I didn't recall seeing that disclosure on any of the marketing material.

[sYc]

Wow..cool to know that maybe our membership can make a postive impact on our hobby.

[ChevyThunder]

Last year at Monterey there was a 1974 Porsche RSR that sold for near 900K with comission. Some of us guys already suspected this car was a rebody and when it came out it started a fuss and eventually an independant authority inspected the car , concluded it was a rebody and the auction house refunded the all monies to the buyer and held the car until the seller wired both the seller and buyers commissions to them . They took the stand that it was the sellers obligation to represent their car properly and if they didn't that was their problem and that the auction house had performed and therfore earned their comission.

Cost the guy 170K to get his rebodied car back. In the Porsche world that 900K car just became worth about the sum of its parts .. about 250K