Is this a rebody?

[The Dude]

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73-79 Ford pickups have the VIN tag riveted to the door. So If I remove the door am I committing a felony? Or if I change the door, which happens often, I am committing the same? If I put the door on a different truck is this now a rebody?

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Lets see a photo of what you're referring to. Are you sure that's not the body tag instead of the 16 digit VIN tag visible in the windshield frame of post-1968 vehicles?

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Lets see a photo of what you're referring to. Are you sure that's not the body tag instead of the 16 digit VIN tag visible in the windshield frame of post-1968 vehicles?

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The windshield VIN location applied to cars, not trucks. An example? 76 GMC is on the door jamb near the striker. IMO, Ford's placement clearly wasn't very well thought out (bordering on semi-retarded!) but the door is definitely where they chose to rivet the VIN tag.

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If you install an entire donor body on to a firewall, it is not a rebody. If you swap a glove box door, it may be a felony. Is that the difference between removing the VIN or removing the car from the VIN?
I certainly hope these laws were written in California!!

[JoeG]

I guess car collections in the future will be just rows of firewalls with vin numbers....

[njsteve]

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I guess car collections in the future will be just rows of firewalls with vin numbers....

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Reminds me of that old joke:

New comedian arrives in heaven after getting hit by a bus.

He hears all the old time, famous dead comedians there, just randomly saying numbers and then he hears thunderous laughter and applause after the numbers.

So, he asks the guy next to him, What's up with the numbers?

The guy responds: Well there's only a finite number of jokes in the universe, 257 to be exact. Everybody here knows them all. So, to speed things up, all you do is say the number instead of telling the joke.

The new guy says, well let me try, and yells out 198! Nothing happens. He then tries 27! -Nothing but crickets chirping, not a sound. Finally he says 113! The crowd is silent.

He turns to the guy next to him and asks: What's wrong?

The guy answers back: It must be your delivery.

[galveston]

I'm somewhat new to this re-body subject so what I don't understand is how did the cowl section with the important items survive this horrific rust event that enveloped the entire car including the sub-frame?
Can some experts out there solve this puzzle?

[RamAirDave]

I can't speak for the car that originated this discussion as there are no earlier pics.

But, yes... it's possible for a car to get mostly all new metal without those parts being that bad off.

This one got more than maybe was necessary, but it needed a lot. He took it on as a challenge, and did a hell of a job considering it was about 4 months worth of nights/weekends from the start to final blocking.

Not a perfect car, but a pretty nice car. Sold right at about a year after work started on it.

http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...w/Restoration/

http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/c...20RS%20Yellow/