[Steve Shauger]

To answer this question:

"I was just trying to establish if a shell with a hidden VIN and no VIN tag was more legitimate or desirable than a shell with just a dash VIN tag."

A body with orig vin stampings is the legitimate VIN. Simply installing a VIN tag to a car body that has different VIN stampings is a rebody.

BTW the example you use is not necessarily the case in the car being discussed. A physical examination has yet to done so it is undetermined at this time.