Value of a rebodied Shelby

[shelbymann1970]

Why can't a person at worst get a state issued ID plate for the car?

He'll need to provide proof of where the now un-numbered shell came from.

While that would be what I would expect lets bring up the Texas situation when the owner of that "Eleanor" shop got busted. Didn't all those doctored with vin cars get sold at auction in various states of completion with state issued IDs? That is what made me think of that. The smart thing would have been to keep the 68 Mustang dash vin and apron vins when converting the donor car and use that to get a state issued ID on the "finished" product. There are cars running around that have been clipped. About 35 years ago I looked at a sun baked Az 428 CJ Mach1. It didn't have the BB towers in it. I was able to do a pencil trace of the DS fender apron. 9F01Fxxxxx. 69 Coupe. Further inspection I saw the weld graphs where they grafted that coupe front end on the CJ car. I always wondered how legal that car was. Since it had the R-code dash vin was that good enough? In Calif it would be NO. If they pulled the fenders back or did a trace like I did they would then run the numbers and issue a state ID after destroying those factory numbers on the car. IIRC that had happened to at least 1 70 Boss 302 on the B2 forum because some NJ cars started their apron vins with a 1,3 or 4 IIRC. .

[shelbyhertz66]

This car in the future will turn up some day as the real thing,
the real thing is gone forever. The tag should be removed and sent to the 68 registrars
for safe keeping and the car titled as 68 mustang using the title from that car if there is one,
or have a state issued new VIN assigned to it.  Build your clone and represent it as such and enjoy.
As far as value its whatever the buyer wants to pay.