[wally509]

The "how much of the original car needs to be left" debate is one for the ages. I also don't think it's really relevant here. What was done is no different than hammer and dollying out the old VIN on the 912 and stamping the 911E one in there, IMO. If you're okay with that well then....why not research some old VIN from a 911S that's been written off and make that 912 really valuable! Where does this type of thing end?

Sorry for the minor rant.

Another thing about this specific instance of this restoration process (if you can call it that), now this info is posted on the internet in this forum. Some earlier posters seem to know what shop this is and what car this is. This is going to be here for ever. In the old days, only the shop owner and the guy doing the VIN tampering would have known this took place. In fact I am surprised the paint guy said anything, he is probably looking for a job now.

Normally I wouldn't chime in on something like this but recently I had lunch with a good friend who is in his mid 80's now. He had a recent brush with death. At lunch he told me about a bunch of crap like this that he knew about. Stuff like "you know so-and-so's rare English sportscar, well it's not really a blah-blah one, he converted it and fudged the VIN/chassis numbers..." etc. Back to my original point, normally all this crapola would have died with this guy/these guys, but now it's on the interweb...question marks stuck to this car FOR EVER.