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At what point do you or don't you call it a re body? I have a few cars needing heavy restoration
One being a 70 camaro, That needs roof skin,floor pans quarters,trunk pan ,And rear frame rails. But have the numbers engine ,rear and trans. It has sat for years outside. Now if I pulled the trigger and started a restoration on it I couldn't say it was all original, But I sure wouldn't call it a re body ? Feel free to chime in with opinions Last edited by ZL1.FUN; 05-13-2017 at 10:01 PM. |
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When you start with a firewall, you end up with a rebody. It's pretty subjective, but in this case, starting with virtually nothing except tags and a firewall makes it tough to say you've restored the original car and not recreated it. Semantics, maybe....
And just to be clear I'm glad cars like these are getting saved. I also think it's important for a future buyer to understand the history. |
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So how many owners does it take to go from:
"this is a rebody with NOS and reproduction parts and a donor car" To: "this car is a survivor" Steve |
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If you owned a rebodied car and want to call it a survivor - go right ahead. You can call it anything you want because it's your possession. |
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But you can get into trouble in specific cases which one I will give an example: You bought the firewall with VIN tag of a 1967 L71 427 Corvette. You have to provide a frame and engine for the car. While the car is in the body shop being restored the police do a surprise raid on the shop because they suspect the shop of shady practises. They inspect your car. It now has 3 different VINs: Firewall, Engine and Frame. What they will do is have the DMV issue a new VIN and destroy the Chevrolet VIN located on the firewall and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. You now will have when finished a 1967 L71 427 Corvette with the VIN of NYS6543 (New York State+6543th car that the DMV has issued it's own VIN for). This exact thing happened in Syracuse New York. But if you bring in a donor car and transfer (legally) the VIN tag from the firewall car to the donor car - that is a rebody. The same holds true for taking a donor car, cutting out the firewall and replacing it with what you purchased from the seller in the original post of this thread. Last edited by Lee Stewart; 05-14-2017 at 04:05 AM. |
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"At what point do you or don't you call it a re body?"
I've been involved in discussions on this topic more times than I care to remember and honestly believe there will never be a clear consensus. What is clear is the legality issues state to state and whether fraud/misrepresentation is committed for the purpose of profit. Personally, I would rather buy a car that had been rebodied with a donor assembled in a GM factory with GM sheetmetal by GM employees in the year the car was produced....as long as it was disclosed fully it is a rebody...rather than a rusted out hulk pieced together using Taiwanese sheetmetal stamped two years ago and billed simply as a full restoration...but maybe that's just me. I also find it interesting that in the world of aviation, every P-51/Spitfire airworthy today does not have the original engine, has had the majority of it's airframe replaced...at least once, and are often completely recreated around a data tag.....and no one cares.
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Steve Nuwer 1970 Z28, Norwood 03A, 48 48, 723 Int, M20, COO, 2021 Legends Platinum restored 1970 L78, Norwood 04C, 17 17, 711 Int, M21, COO, born-with drivetrain project. 1972 Z28, Norwood 11C project, born-with drivetrain, 26 26, 775, M20, CGG project 1970 Z28, Norwood 05C, 48 G, 720 Int, M21, COZ, Original Unrestored (SOLD) www.2ndGenZ.com |
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