[rescue] My new toy in Laurel MD!

[Mike Hebel]

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:

> You mean that it is illegal?  If so, I was not aware of that.  I would
> have thought you could just say that you bought replacement parts for
> everything - a complete "frame-off" restoration as it were.

Yeah, they cracked on it because it stopped being just a few people. 
Chop-shops were taking the VINs from written-off vehicles and swapping 
them on stolen cars.

But then things might vary from place to place:

http://www.classictiger.com/vinopin.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/727864.stm

Mike Hebel