Is this Rebirthing or Restoring?

[wbute]

I don't think its illegal or unethical if, and only if you tell the authorities and the potential buyer. Its called a rebody. Thats all the good bits put on a different body and/or chassis.
Selling a car as a X when it is only the plates from said car, is illegal. Its fraud. There was a case in Australian Muscle Car resently where a car advertised and sold as something, was not infact as it should and it got ugly and ended in court.

Its a bit different when they are cutting out the chassis number and replacing it though, which is where this thread differs from the standard tag swap thread.

[jennie285]

Its a bit different when they are cutting out the chassis number and replacing it though, which is where this thread differs from the standard tag swap thread.

that is why I replied the way I did....nothing wrong with a re-body if the shell has rusted or been in an accident, in the day you would have done exactly that. In fact there is HX sandman which has a mismatching chassis in Parkes. It was done before the owner who bought it in 1978, and he had no idea until we read the tags for him...the guy knew it had been in an accident as it had a HZ front end on it, but didn't know they had slapped a different chassis under it...back then who cared about matching numbers...