Rebodied cars and do they get certified

[amuseme]

Boy, I'm really enjoying this! Apparently there is no legal description of just what portion of a car makes it "a car". I posted this point before on another site, think it's worth a re-hash.....you can pay a resto. shop to replace each and every panel and it's a "restoration, new or n.o.s. stuff, new work, and new money. Or you take the numbered parts and cut the rest of the "car" away from them (catch that?), and slide in a "body", sorry, " collection of panels" that some uaw workers put together 30-35 yrs ago, new parts,new work, and new money. You simply paid a larger shop after the fact.Please tell me you get it that you can remove the rest of the body from the "juicy parts" instead of removing them from the body!