Does anyone know the legal ramifications on re-numbering a project car?
Let's say that you hypothetically have two cars that you legally own and have titles to. You want to create one car from the parts of both donors.
At one end of the spectrum you remove all the parts from the newer car and install them on the older car. At the other end of the spectrum you cut the sheetmetal containing the VIN stamping from the old car and weld it in to the new car.
At what point does this become tampering with the VIN (illegal) and subject to fraud or impounding of said vehicle if something should bring attention to your mods, i.e. how BIG a piece of the car do you need to cut out around the VIN so that it still remains a "car".
As we all like to build project cars and modify our cars I'm just curious what experiences some of you may have had (good or bad) with respect to this topic.
Just to be crystal clear: I'm not suggesting any fraudulent or illegal activity here, just wondering where the line is drawn legally in regard to special construction vehicles.
