ROTTING MUSCLECARS

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not to worry, I am CERTAIN that "car" is on the road today, probably sold at auction as a low mile (wrecked when it was new, is that what low mile means?) matching numbers car ...

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Undoubtedly. In a small rural junkyard in the middle of Kansas, there's the remains of a 67 Shelby. I'm sure the car's missing V.I.N. numbers are resting comfortably on a six cylinder fastback in somebody's garage.

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It has been going on for YEARS.

I am sure most people would be surprised at how many rebodied, clipped, brought back for being totalled type cars are out there and undetectable.

The insurance companies sanction it by selling totalled cars at auction rather then having them crushed. There are body shops that make a living exclusively from grafting two cars togather and reselling them. If you think they all have salvage titles you are wrong. I know in AZ. they used to take the AZ. title to N.M. and title it and the salvage disappeared. If the car was ever titled back in AZ. no one ever knew.

And we thought that "don't ask don't tell" was just a recent military term.

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Oh, I know. If you've been in the hobby for more than a week, you know that re-bodies are a problem. I've been saying for awhile that it's an even bigger problem than most people realize.