Though it is not what you want to hear, there is a point at which you simply have to take the car off of life support and let it die an honorable death. If you take the VIN off of one body and put it on another, it is a felony. Period. If the Lawman gets tipped off to the car, you will absultely lose the car; it will be confiscated as "contraband property" under the law and you will lose all of your money and your car, and most likely get a felony conviction to boot.
If the hypothetical ZL1 with the crushed roof and floors is to be resurrected you would have to find the floors and roof from a donor car and weld it to the original ZL1, no matter how hard it is or how much $$$$ it costs. The same goes for the race car.
Without being any less cryptic in my message, I will say this about the extent of my knowledge in this area: I get paid to hunt down VIN swapped cars and the people who create them. Nuff Said?
