I think that it's more "illegal" to transfer a '76 VIN tag to a '74 birdcage than registering a '74that has a "legal": VIN tag... somebody correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the birdcage and the VIN plate is what's considered the parts that cannot be legally transferred to another frame???
Now, if you buy a new tubular frame for your car and the VIN is on the birdcage... what's legal and what's illegal ???
just asking because I dunno.....
My reasoning is more practical that ethical, but you raise a very good question. To which point fixing a car make is more the fixing part than the actual car? Quiet a debate.
My plan is to use the bottom of the birdcage of the donor to fix my own. The point is there nowhere written where the bottom end and where the top begins :evil:
The thing is my '76 is already light years away from NCRS correct. It's was setup as a wannabe drag racing machine, loud as hell with a racecar-like unstable idle.
So my guess is once i'll have to pass some official test, I'll be screwed.
Little story, here in Quebec you can use the service of a 'transfert agent' that bypass all State regulation. He give you some kind of 'transfert paper', with which you go pick up your license plate, not question asked, and it's plain legal. However the insurance company requested an evaluation of the car, and the examiner told me the car was not technically road legal (no warning, not working power window, noise, emission...) but he couldn't care less, all he was asked was to tell a price for my car.
Don't know how it goes for you in your State, but here in Quebec, it very 'Far West'-like. It's huge land for a relatively small population, might explain why.
It's radically different from what I experienced in France with the regular mandatory technical controls and shit.