Registering, was: <VV> Surviving '69 Convertibles / Registry

[LonzoVair at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/13/2007 6:08:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
airvair at richnet.net writes:
<<Suppose, for example, I had parted out a '69 convert (and
I have, BTW) and saved all the components, including body and VIN tags.
Then I got a cherry '68 (or maybe an earlier one) convert, and dressed
it out with the '69's stuff. Then registered it. (Note that the parts I
salvaged were not, nor ever will be used like that.) What then?>>

I have bought (and sold) a few like that... but they were vans... my current 
61 is a good example... the VIN says it's a 63, but it IS a 61, as the 
tell-tale rain channel on the A pillar is not there (why would anyone remove THAT?), 
and the secondary side door has an external key lock, something the 62-65 FCs 
didn't have (although I DID see a supposed 65 8 door Greenbrier at the Corvair 
Ranch that had the external key operated door locks)... and of course the 
mounting holes for the choke pull....
I doubt I'd ever sell it.... but I HAVE sold two that were sold to me with 
different from original VINs, and I told the people who bought them everything I 
knew about those cars ... the screws holding the VIN tag were the main 
indicator... as well as the body tag having a different year...
I didn't misrepresent them in any way, shape, or form, and I only found out 
by asking all the right questions... and of course looking at the body tag. 
Sometimes thats the only reasonable way to keep a good car on the road....
Later,
Lonzo.... which reminds me of this...

"How many legs would a dog have if you called the tail a leg? Four... Just 
because you call it a leg, it doesn't make it one!"  ~ Abraham Lincoln



Lon Anderson in White Mills, KY
CORSA, Corvanatics, Derby City Corvair, Central Kentucky Corvair
1961 Greenbrier
1963 Greenbrier
1964 700 sedan
1969 Monza coupe