<VV> OT Restoration vs fraud

[Charles Lee]

You're probably right about the "NOS" actually being repro'd part, since the likelihood of ALL of the parts surviving is next to nil, for all of the obvious reasons !

Interesting dilemma when it comes to registering these cars though !

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sethracer at aol.com 
  To: chaz at properproper.com ; virtualvairs at corvair.org 
  Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 7:52 AM
  Subject: Re: <VV> OT Restoration vs fraud


  In a message dated 6/30/2005 2:20:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time, chaz at properproper.com writes:
    Then there was the guy who built a "brand new" 32 Ford "Deuce" from all NOS 
    parts.

    Was it a new car or an old car ?  Was it "original" or "repro" ?

    Anyone know where that car is today ?

    CL
    67 Monza coupe

  I believe that to be impossible - Maybe from New replacement parts. The likelihood of all the original 1932 Ford-manufactured parts being available is tiny, wouldn't you say? If any big pieces were still sitting around in 1942, they got recycled and dropped on Germany or Japan.

  PS - California now has a category for cars that are built to resemble a particular car, such as a 32 built up out of new parts. It isn't titled as a Brand new 2005 car, but not as an original, either. Some fuzzy gray area inbetween, like Kit car conversions. I wonder how the "new", 1969 Camaro will be titled? It is a totally new shell, with no GM/Chevy origin parts. Hmmm. . .  

  - Seth Emerson