I know you guys will tell me like it is ..

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Here are the legal facts, not opinions on some of the above comments:

1) A VIN tag is an absolutely sacred item under the law. You can change quarter panels, roofs, subframes, engines, rears, transmissions, tissue dispensers, etc., to your hearts content but NEVER mess with a VIN tag. Heck, you can even swap out your cowl tag listing the original color and options on your car and you wont face criminal charges. (You might get sued in a civil court later if you sell the car to someone and misrepresent it as something it isn't but that is not the same a criminal charges. (civil court = money penalty, versus criminal court = jail time penalty)


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Some states will allow you to remove a VIN tag if necessary to repair a car. Believe some require you to have a state trooper or similar official there to verify.

You're correct that federal law also addresses VIN removal; have also looked that up, but don't recall what the exact prohibitions were.

Anyone purchasing this car or a similar one would need to be familiar with the ramifications of state and federal law before purchasing a car like this one. Certainly think it would be permissible to build a car around the remnants of this one, assuming the VIN tag was not removed from the cowl of this car and placed on a "donor" body.

Scott