[njsteve]

Actually it's not quite the stretch you might want to believe when it involves the area of data plates, VIN tags and the like (I'm not talking about basic car parts). A drowning rat will try to climb onto anything above water. If some unknowledgable "collector" finds out that he has been ripped off, he will call his lawyer and the lawyer (as lawyers do) will add everyone he can to the lawsuit in order to find the deepest pockets he can. Like I said, the "honest" seller of the tag may eventually be dropped out of the lawsuit but not until he's spent a bunch of money on lawyer fees to have his lawyer get him out.

The higher the value of the car, the more likely you will get involved in a lawsuit. If someone is illicitly cloning a base SS it's a little different than if he's cloning a ZL1 and trying to pass it off as a real car. The higher the value, the higher the likelihood of a legal feeding frenzy (no offense to sharks out there).