Does anyone agree with my view over at TC?

[Rat_Pack]

Rick, find a picture of that trim tag, not the car as you are probably right about the color being orange. However, the trim tag is going to make this all come together for you.

BTW, YenkoChevelle69, what happened to your webpage? I went to look at it so I could see why everyone seemed to be a Nutcracker towards you (seasonal vocabulary ) today and it wasn't there. Did you remove it?.............RatPack...............

Mr70, thanks for posting those as I didn't want to have to dig mine out and take pictures.......... .............

[Rick H]

Ok, I'll bow to the masses at the present time until I find that !@#$% picture. Continuing on..

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He said he wants to car to be a "correct" LS6 (the car started life as a malibu) and so far he's stamped the trans, purchased a false trim tag.... Why wouldn't he do the rest.


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You are assuming without facts and he called you on it. He clearly states he is making a recreation. There is no reason to believe is passing the car off as an original. At least he is being truthful about it. That's more then can be said of the thousands of other so called original cars being pawned off these days.

After what was posted about your rebuilding techniques you must have some concerns about what you are doing because your website is no longer available for viewing.

How are we not to know that an original sheetmetal Orange L-78 Chevelle might not be coming on the market real soon???

Hmmm

Rick H.

[YenkoChevelle69]

Forget it.

[Supergas990]

Haven't we already thrashed this horse in another post? Well, maybe it wasn't this horse, but it was definitely a horse...

Blair

[Rick H]

I guess it would be best if I answered your original post and call it a day.

"Does anyone agree with my view over at TC?"

No, I do not.

Rick H.

[Racefan]

FWIW, I would agree that it is wrong to make a trim tag and place it in your car to make the tag match what you want the car to be. If you aren't trying to mislead, I can see no reason to alter the trim tag. Maybe you aren't trying to decieve, but someone down the line WILL be decieved and we'll have to hear about it. So, while I don't wish to get involved directly in any feud, I will voice my opinion that manufacturing a trim tag is WRONG. PERIOD. If someone has a reason that makes sense to any time that a reproduction (and custom made) trim tag would be appropriate....please enlighten me. On another similar post elsewhere, it was inferred that it was potentially questionable to make a duplicate trim tag LET ALONE A FAKE ONE. Why are there not more people stating thier feelings on this one?

[SuperNovaSS]

I totally agree that restamping parts does nothing but deceive. If a person is going through all the trouble so someone will look at a pad stamping or trim tag and not question the car, it is deception, plain and simple. I didn't say anything earlier because I like to watch Rick H run his mouth. Maybe this will help add fuel to Ricks neverending fire.


Jason

[Stuart Adams]

You know sometimes people loose sight of what this car hobby/love is all about. I love the cars for what they represent or represented back then, culture, art, fun, etc. Meeting great people along the way.

All these continuing talks about making trim tags, POP's etc. just muddy the waters and I get tired of swimming in the pool after while. So with that said I am afraid as hell of the IRS and the Law, and making something that is against the law to the level of VIN's, Trims, etc. for a car does not even enter my mind as an option. Even if making something for a car was close to being against the law or not cool I wouldn't do it. I would be worried that me or someone else would get in trouble over the car I "restored". There are many more things to be worried about to be adding that to the list. That is my final answer.

[Tenney]

Monopoly money v. counterfeit cash. Making a car look like another car, or the one "you wished you had", is one thing. To each their own. Falsifying the numbers/data plates/ documents to make the car "become" the one "you wished you had" might be deemed forgery to some (the lawyer of the guy you sold the car to, for example).

[Rick H]

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I totally agree that restamping parts does nothing but deceive. If a person is going through all the trouble so someone will look at a pad stamping or trim tag and not question the car, it is deception, plain and simple. I didn't say anything earlier because I like to watch Rick H run his mouth. Maybe this will help add fuel to Ricks neverending fire.


Jason

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Tired of the never ending hypocrisy.

Rick H.