Originally Posted by
stevenr
That's all very well and i know there are a lot of them about already but it's when you come to sell it that the problems are.Some poor cunt thinks he's buying a nice rot free car when in fact it's a base model with some RS bits on it.
Unless of course you are honest and sell it as a ringer in which case it won't be worth as much and unless you can provide evidence of work carried out a lot of people will be suspicious of it.And you'll get the heroes that are scouring the ads looking for dodgy cars to let the whole world know over the net.
Totally agree with this! There is absolutely no reason why a second hand shell should have its I.D. changed! If a car started life as a base model then it can't magically become a RS or whatever, even though the shells are largely the same. If you are hell bent on having RS on the log book then you need to buy a rust free RS shell or be prepared to restore it. Re-shelling into a new shell with a receipt from Ford doesn't really apply to the old cars now as clearly Ford will not have any body shells lying around any more lol!