69 Camaro Body in the Crate

[Mark_C]

Well we'll just have to wait and see.

Here comes the coupe version. The prototype is at the SEMA show now. Supposed to retail somewhere between 10 and 13K.

[njsteve]

All legal arguing aside, that is still totally amazing! I wonder if they are going to dip them in an E-coating instead of merely spray primering them?

[rpoz11]

Now that I can see the actual dash panel having the DOT GM VIN locations present, this disturbes me even more!

Seems to me ever more each day that all of us who have the original cars still left to get onto an authorized responsible Registry!
We should get this done before all of the low lifers with bad intentions, aka that Canadian joker Charley outed, get that bird flu thats going around and try to fake some orignal cars, before it's tooooo late!

Carrol Shelby ran into some problems with the so called few remaining AC bodies he had left over(??? ) not too long ago...whatever occured with him attempting to title and register those bodies as actual original cars?

Do we anywhere on this board have an Attorney and a Law Enforcement employee with sufficient credibility who could offer up some real time answers on these reproduction bodies?

[njsteve]

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[70 copo]

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Do we anywhere on this board have an Attorney and a Law Enforcement employee with sufficient credibility who could offer up some real time answers on these reproduction bodies?


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Steve,

Very neat topic indeed! Question for you: I just got an out of state vehicle inspected by a certified state inspector who was directly employed by the state DMV. The inspection was little more than a glance at the vin number and the title. Nothing else was checked.

Now lets assume that the "body gestapo" inspectors are being trained someplace out there right now.....

That would tell me that there is some standardized process of inspection that is a result of or has been derived from state or federal law someplace Right?

Why don't you locate just one of these this statutes, and a corresponding legal opinion that have been upheld in one court case on this very topic.

I just want to be real sure that we are not mixing opinion in this thread from statutes designed to preclude auto chop shops (stolen cars) from VIN# switching.

VIN# switching- where the body and its parts are stolen and a new VIN# is assigned with the intent to cover the theft.

The application of this lawmaking would be designed to convict auto theft chop shop operators.

So I am left to ponder the applicability of such a law to a ligitimate auto restoration processes or custom car builder applications where ownership of the vehicle/Title/parts is not at all in question.

Heck Just post a link to one case. Educate us!!


Phil

[njsteve]

Unfortunately this situation falls into that fraud statute. This is one of those areas where technology has advanced farther than the law. The drafters of the laws never imagined that someone would recreate an exact copy of a long extinct car and sell it on the open market for repair purposes. It is quite literally "Jurassic Park meets Perry Mason." (Quick, someone with PhotoShop create me an image of this)

[americanmusclecars]

The body panels are E-coated. However, before they can be spot-welded together the E-coat must be removed to assure complete metal contact on both ends of the spot welder to make a perfect weld. Upon completion the car will then be primed or sent as is if so requested by end user.