Originally Posted by
Wolvo-Olie
Yeah exactly mate, it just seems people end up with like 90% of the car as welded plates etc making the car still 'original' when you could just weld the shell to the plate lol, rust proof it and 30 years from now youd probably have the only RST around haha
Im sure there will be a law along those lines, but i mean, alot of the mk1 escorts that you see would be past that percentage by now!
Just seems that way would work out a lot better, and the stardard of some of the welding you see on here im sure it could be done...
It could be done quite easily and made un-noticeable but at the end of the day it will still be a vin plate welded into a different shell, and im sure im correct in thinking that weld joins can show up under some sort of x-ray detection?? although i doubt anyone would ever go to that extreme to check wether the identity was original or not!
If my memory serves me correctly i believe it was actually ok to reshell into a secondhand shell and keep the identity from the original donor car up until about 7 or 8 years ago when they changed the laws on this to make them go onto a Q plate if the shell was not brand new.