Counterfeit Cars on FABO!!!
the original v.i.n. rivets fell-off of my vintage Levis ( 1986 model year ) , so by replacing the tags with replacement rivets , are my pants a fraud ?
RE : Daycron ( or whatever ) bodies :
In good ole Cali , the car would be considered a , say , 2011 model , and would have to meet 2011 standards in-so-far-as emissions junk and safety poo-poo .
That's "The Golden (Showers) State" for ya !
The "George Washington's Axe" debate is an old one , originally brought-to-light when Boyd "Billit" Coddington was selling his 350-powered smoothies out of K-Mart vending machines .
Like I've said before -- and believe me , I'm no beard-wearing expert -- Chryslers are pretty difficult to forge .
Their dash v.i.n.'s are easy to decode ( car line , price class , body style , engine , model year , plant , sequence number ) , and those whom are reasonably astute , can ascertain a fake v.i.n. pretty easily ; to wit :
BS27R0E******
See anything wrong about this one ?
Lemme show ya :
Los Angeles didn't build 426 Hemi's , not did that plant make convertibles .
Mis-struck plant code ?
Possibly ...
The fender tag is not a legally-recognised form-of-identification . Thank God for their presence ; but , no state is going to recognise it as concrete evidence .
At this year's Spring Fling , there was a very nice Hemi Dart ( it was red ) .
A replica of a '68 LO23M8 .
It's v.i.n. ?
LH23B9E : a '69 Swinger with a 225 from L.A.
Its owner(s) / builder(s) didn't try to pass it off as an LO23M8 ; but , they did a damned good job of making it look like one , right down to the heater-delete plate on the dash and the "270" model's door panels .
Tell ya what : it was a sweet *** ride at a fraction of what a legit '68 Hurst-Hemi would cost , and it looked damned good .