Original vs Correct,, New Body Acceptable?

[COPO PETE]

I kind of view it as if a car was human. If a person is sick or gets in an accident, and gets a new heart, eyes, kidney, whatever.... does he or she become the person that the parts came from...... Nope! I think it is real important to take lots of picture as well. When I restore a car, I take pictures all the way along. So in the event I sell it, the buyer can see how good it was, or how bad it was. And if it was bad, they need to see it was fixed properly. I don't go for restamps as I feel you are really trying to fool someone. I've had offers to restamp stuff on my cars, but when you own a collection of any size, if you get caught restamping, everything you own becomes a question mark. I've put "IF" wheels on a car till I could find "XT's" It's interesting because it has happened where someone is contacted because they found the original motor for their car..... and it's supposedly already in the car. Wow, that car came with two motors!!!!
Peter [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[shor]

I think Pete is trying to say that cars have souls!

[68TopStock]

Being in the healthcare industry makes me chuckle about the reference comparing a car body to the human body. When a heart transplant patient receives a new heart, he isn't included in the family lineage of the donor is he? Maybe someday some donor recepient will sue for inheritance because he is a part of the family tree (in his opinion).

Just because a vin tag or oe stamped block is put in a new body, does not make it the car it is supposed to appear as. The original one is dead and hopefully buried. Unless of course you believe in reincarnation! [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/crazy.gif[/img]