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Originally Posted by Ron Earp  Were they simply being removed to get a unique number that matched some new Shelby authorized reproduction car? Or were they trying to avoid some sort of new car/manufacturer law that would require the cars to pass emissions, crash tests, etc? Did they not have clean titles for the shells and trying to avoid salvage titles or the paperwork of recovering a title? |
Maybe a little of all of those. Yes they can be welded and ground, but after redoing over a dozen 'stangs, that is an area that gets cut out and replaced the majority of the time. What I was referring to is the news showing this guy discussing what they were doing, and having no apparent knowledge of the cars. He didn't say that they were welded up and ground off, he said they "scratched them off". The presentation on the news like that, will make it pretty hard to get a fair trial anywhere in that locale. Plus the spreading of pseudo information as fact to the unknowing, seems to be an effort to taint their image before the public with very little hard evidence. I am in the middle of a 1970 Mach I that I am creating an "Eleanor" type car, the customer was initially looking for a '67-'68 but every one that was up for sale had a price tag that was unreal. The little phrase with every ad that said "would make a great Eleanor clone" was indication that "Eleanor" cars had perverted the market value. If they were title washing and all that other stuff, get them for it, but don't portray them that way with that kind of "evidence". For me, it was compounded by the fact that TV news didn't do any research into the way these cars are numbered originally and just took the officers word as fact. Hardly a case of innocent until proven guilty.