<VV> Re: New '69 Camaro body / old VIN? no Corvair

[airvair]

IF (and not that I am saying YOU should) I was doing it, I'd use the VIN 
off the car that I got the front subframe off of. After all, one would 
have to assume that that car would either be the one you bought the body 
for, and because you were scrapping out the rest of the body, OR that 
the one that donated the front subframe was already being scrapped. 
Either way, the VIN tag is easy to move, and, if the Camaro is like the 
Corvair, the VIN is already stamped on the front subframe anyway.

-Mark C

Dave Keillor wrote:

>In most states you could legally register it as a home-built.  The
>inspection and emissions requirements wouild depend on the state.  Moving
>the VIN would be risky because it would be clear that this isn't an original
>body.
>
>Dave Keillor
>
>
>The hotrod article says that the company producing them - CARS inc.  is 
>getting licensed as a vehicle manufacturer so that they can assign real new 
>legal vins to each body.
>
>
>
>-Geoff
>
>
> Question for the guru's...I was going through
>YearOne's site, looking for a couple things, and
>happened upon the Camaro body parts page. In drooling
>over all you can get for those cars, I noticed the new
>'69 Camaro vert bodies that will soon be offered,
>retail $11,999. 
> They are from the firewall back, so you'd have to
>weld on your old front subframe. My question is how
>would you title the thing, when you have to do the big
>no-no and move VINs from the donor lower W/S panel to
>the repro unibody? Anyone know what the official
>answer is? Could be a don't ask, don't tell? I know we
>all discussed this before and in most states, you
>really can't do it. Just curious if anyone knows how
>Year One might suggest you deal with the problem,
>since they are encouraging it! 
>
> Thanks - Mike
>          YS-117