Help... Vin #'s dont match

Back in Time said

So you guys are saying that if at some time the car got hit and needed the core support replaced and the owner decides to replace the package tray that was butchered he has a stolen car? By the looks of some of the rusted out hulks from the east coast I see being totally re-paneled in build threads here there's a lot of "stolen" cars running around.

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Not at all. But if someone does that repair without the proper documentation you get what you've got in this thread. A car with multiple non-matching partial VIN's, and no way to know if any or all of them were stolen without running them. Or you could contact the DMV, obtain the proper documentation, and complete the repairs above board. But that takes time and effort, and it's easier for lazy people to just replace the parts and let the next guy worry about it, assuming they can find some poor bastard that doesn't check all the numbers when he buys it. And if they can convince that poor guy that he's buying a numbers matching, clean car instead of a re-body or a car with significant structural repair that would tag it as salvage, well, they can make a tidy profit instead of having to take the hit of trying to sell a salvage title car themselves.