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From: Larry list account [mailto:list@marketvalue.net]
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> I don't know if it is legal, but I can tell you the hot
> rod/street rod/kit
> car guys do it all the time. They build a car then buy the
> paperwork....
My state requires a safety inspection for cars brought in from out of state
(and sales tax to be paid if you've owned it less than two years!). They'd
have a hard time inspecting a piece of paper and an ID plate. :-) Beyond the
legal ramifications, there's also the ethical issue. It's one thing to
take a Heritage body shell and populate it with all the components of another
car, then "make it that car". You're saving a vehicle that would otherwise
disappear. It's quite another thing to cobble together a car out of a parts
bin and try to pass it off as a car which will have a verifyable paper trail
behind it. If I bought a car on good faith, sent in for my BMHT records and
found out is was "supposed to be" a totally different car, I'm not sure who
I'd call first, the cops or my lawyer. Probably the cops, as they're already
paid for. :-) Everybody knows that hot rods are built from a whole bunch
of parts, most of which have no original relationship to the chassis or
body they're attached to. "Classic" cars are a whole different matter entirely.
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