When you see someone on say EBAY selling a set of Sandman tags with a small part of the chassis, the bit that contains the chassis number, to re-use on another vehicle, is this classed as rebirthing or a form of restoring?
When you see someone on say EBAY selling a set of Sandman tags with a small part of the chassis, the bit that contains the chassis number, to re-use on another vehicle, is this classed as rebirthing or a form of restoring?
BO6 = Rarer then a Sandman
whatever you call I'm pretty sure its illegal.
That is a rebirth. No question. Pretty sure all states would see cutting a chassis rail number out and reusing as a new birth. Probs same penalties as grinding a chassis number and restamping. Very dodge imo
BQZ
Always wondered when these tags are on Ebay.
How would this go if you had say a VN Commodore GRP A and the shell was stuffed after a rollover.
You change shell is it now rebirthed????
BO6 = Rarer then a Sandman
Originally Posted by agr071
A little off topic but you can only reshell a VN Group A wit a VN Group A shell
they're factory modified in the rear wheel arches
The modifications were the VL diff being fitted from the reports I've read. Being a bit narrow compared to the VN version.
Both the VN Group A and SV5000 were fitted with VL diffs to allow for the, then huge, 8" rims but the Group A also had the wheel arches modified
Im actually selling one fora mate if you know anyone looking
You can reshell a VN group A with a Toyota Lexcen body as long as the guy you sell it to doesn't know what he's looking for. Rebirthers don't care about factory authentic. Make the price too good to refuse and someone will snap it up as long as it has the right plates present. There was a guy on TT/ACA not long ago purchased a good priced VC Brock without getting a proper inspection only to find the car had a very obvious and not very good cut and shut.
Its rebirthing in a grand scale, if you have a sandman which is rusted out, and needs to have a reshell, it is just as if it has been in an accident, and needs to have a new body put on the chassis, but a chassis is the whole chassis not just the rail which the number is stamped, this needs to be addressed, and it should be classed as a mismatched chassis.. I would prefer a mismatched chassis which could have happpened when nearly new, that a welded in piece with a number on it...just my opinion anyway....
Cheers J
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Yeah its dodgy. But how many miss-matched sandman's out there are actually matching number cars that have been stolen and dodged up years ago?
This is what happens when these $5000 cars become $20000 to $30000 collectable classics.The numbers hold the value,there is no way of stopping it. I watched a 15 year old do it when his family lived in a cottage on our farm 20 years ago.
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