Chevyconvert, you are right on about the emphasis on little tags. I suppose we have brought this on ourselves, with all the emphasis on numbers-matching this and that. If you think about it, it doesn't make much sense that changing one letter in a vin of a nice car would make it worth five times that of a numbers-matching rustbucket. I think the point 2000qt is making is an excellent point. The fact that it is a federal offense is not necessarily a statement of the evil or meritoriousness of the action. Anyone rember the "Assault Weapons" bill? Almost overnight, the price of certain firearms went through the roof. for no other reason except congressional fiat. Think about this- if tomorrow congress made "rebodying" legal, the bottom would fall out of the collector car market. Would that be such a bad thing, to be able to get an old mopar without having Tim Allen's income? Yes, of course it is the basic economic principle of supply and demand. I will personally never buy a numbers-matching car, because the reason I'm buying the car is not for investment or speculative purposes. but to drive, tweak, and have fun with. I intend to change a lot of the dawn-of-man engineering on the car, which would not be wise to do on a numbers matching car. If someone came up with a way to replicate all the qualities of a diamond for one-fifth the cost, and nobody could discern between the two, which would you buy for your wife?
