How do we feel about body swaps???

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Tags ect...ALONG WITH CHASSIS, RAILS.ECT Is it ok to swap bodies???

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Sorry pet peeve...

I say it's fine to swap bodies. Learn the Sandman differences and put the new body right. Tell nobody.

[L31]

CHEERS. I YOUS TOO SPEEL IT THAT WAY, BUT IT NOT LOOK RIGHT. FANKS FOUR THE GRAMAR LESEN.LOL

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Thanks for that, i tend to agree, how much of a car are you allowed to replace before it's not the original car anymore. I'm sure a lot of your resto's are barely the original car anymore? Cheers.l31

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If i fix up a rusted out body, and replace all the parts with rare spare bits. It ends up 70% new parts( rust replacement panles). I see this the same, just one big panle. Lol

[agr071]

If i fix up a rusted out body, and replace all the parts with rare spare bits. It ends up 70% new parts( rust replacement panles). I see this the same, just one big panle. Lol

I agree 100%.
Lets see:
Replace sills - Replace rear quarters - Replace front floors - Replace roof turret - Replace both tailgates & doors - Replace side panels from windowed to windowless.

Whats left??? Sweet bugger all, and it looks like a patchwork quilt.


Also if you replaced the teeth at the rear for the hoodlining and the longer side straps for the hoodlining in your Sandman, (i think Rare Spares do these or are they sold aftermarket) it won't be classed as an original anyway and what's to say it WAS a Sandman to start with?

[playwme]

[/COLOR]If i fix up a rusted out body, and replace all the parts with rare spare bits. It ends up 70% new parts( rust replacement panles). I see this the same, just one big panle. Lol

Yes. Sort of. Although in both cases I still wouldn't see that as being as good as a car with its original sheet metal, and from a collectibility point of view I'd see the rebody and the Rare Spares Lego set as being inferior.
Too much emphasis is put on the actual value of these cars. I prefer to enjoy them for what they are, and if I happen to make a few bucks from them that's just a nice positive side effect.