Buying/Selling Firewall Tags......

[Stuart Adams]

Not that my opinion matters much, but here goes - I don't like the idea, something inside me sais it's wrong and not cool. The person must need money real bad to be selling these things.

[hep1966]

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so you're still Dick Wad
(no personal offense meant)


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Lets say you had the name Dick Wad (no personal offense meant) and could not change it.

[Verne_Frantz]

As I said, there was no personal offense meant. The "you're" was meant "collectively" as anyone trying to change his birth certificate. (or his car's)

But I will also stand by my firm conviction that "in general", anyone who sells, buys or installs a trim tag on a car it's wasn't born with it is a low-life unethical participant in this hobby.

I don't believe you're in that category, since you asked the question whether it would be ok or not. Someone in that category would not ask that question - he'd just do it and keep it to himself.

Verne

[LeMans Blue X77]

What about a legal body swap because your 67 ss was a rusted out old bucket and you found a solid donor 67?

you changed both vin and trim and had both cars properly inspected.

[Mark_C]

You guys really think that 905 dollar auction for the trim tag (NOR308130) was real? Cause the tag was a repro, someones going to be pissed off.

Heres the first of 2 auctions for the same tag:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayIS...672836&rd=1

[Belair62]

Someone please explain how to tell a real trim tag from a re-pop

[Mark_C]

Most obvious sign is a tag that looks like it's never been painted (stated only half facitiously). The tag was on the firewall almost as soon as there was a firewall. But seriously, there are significant differences and hopefully the repro'ers won't figure them all out any time soon. Look at the current thread on the Orange "COPO" in the for sale section, there are two identical tags associated with the car, both can't be original.

[NCGuy68]

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Someone please explain how to tell a real trim tag from a re-pop

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Good question Bob......I'd like to know myself.

Lately, I've been 'eye-balling' the tag rivets real close.

[DSYenko]

If Dick Wad has a bad disease that will render all his vital organs useless in the next 6 months and Richard Wadsworth was in a fatel car accident and was wearing a donar card and all his vital organs were donated to Dick Wad,,,,,,he's still Dick Wad!

[Verne_Frantz]

DS,
Again, from my point of view, the trim tag is NOT a vital organ or a replacement part to make the new "body" complete. When Wadsworth donates his vital organs to Wad to keep him alive, yes, he's still Wad, and still has his original birth certificate - even if he has new "guts".
But if Wad dies, his birth certificate goes on file, marked deceased. It doesn't get attached to someone else.

I also have a hard time accepting re-bodied cars. I don't think the entire body was meant to be a replaceable part either. I know it's done all the time when an original body and/or frame is too far gone for restoration, but I feel uncomfortable calling the resulting car "restored". "Re-created", yes. But that word gives me the same sensation as scraping my fingernails on a chauk board.

Verne