Re: A12 Mod Top Bee
[Re: DPelletier]
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02/11/15 08:57 PM
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OMG here we go again;
- if you swap all the parts onto another unibody but don't swap the body stamps or VIN, it's a clone.
- if you cut the numbers and weld them onto another unibody, it's a rebody not an original car.
- if you put a trunk floor and some quarter skins on to repair some rust it's a repair, not a rebody.
.....attempting to define a "rebody" as anywhere between those two last examples will generate a
Dave
OK wait. It's 1972 & your wife is driving the '70 Hemi Roadrunner to the grocery store & she gets in a wreck. The upper rail of the radiator support & the left rear quarter panel (among other things) need to be replaced. Car goes into the body shop & they replace sheetmetal with new stuff from Chrysler - nobody even knows or cares about the numbers stamped in these places, so nothing gets "transferred" in the process. Original bent sheetmetal with these numbers gets trashed by the body shop. Oops! Not a real Hemi Roadrunner anymore!
In my book, here's a re-creation or a made-from-nothing car: Guy buys a 1970 318 Challenger. He pulls the drivetrain & drops in a 440, adds the R/T hood, adds rear valence with cutouts, the proper torsion bars, springs, brakes, rally gauges, etc. Then he has fender tags made to match what he built, & maybe he even has the vin tag from a wrecked car on a dash pad & title. OK, this car was made from something that no longer existed so this car would not be "real" in my book. Does someone make dash vin tags? For any price? Well, you need a title to match that, so that would be tough. Currently, I have a title for a 1970 Challenger R/T from an Arizona wrecking yard from back in the 80's. What if I gave it to someone & they decided to make a car to match that tag? Now I know that car was junked a long time ago so if someone had the title & tags & they resurrected it, it would be a fake in my book.
This wrecked Mod Top car was still in existence (assuming all the content in this thread is true which I assume it is) so it is a REAL car, but in very bad shape. What do you do? Crush it? If you took the rubble to a place like Roger Gibson Restoration & said "RESTORE IT - PRICE DOES NOT MATTER" I guarantee someone would make it like new again. And it would be a REAL car, not a new creation. If they re-bodied the car, transferred the numbers so you couldn't tell, but told you they did not re-body it, how could you tell? Would this make it any less real?
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Re: A12 Mod Top Bee
[Re: Sunroofcuda]
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02/11/15 10:13 PM
02/11/15 10:13 PM
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DPelletier
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OMG here we go again;
- if you swap all the parts onto another unibody but don't swap the body stamps or VIN, it's a clone.
- if you cut the numbers and weld them onto another unibody, it's a rebody not an original car.
- if you put a trunk floor and some quarter skins on to repair some rust it's a repair, not a rebody.
.....attempting to define a "rebody" as anywhere between those two last examples will generate a
Dave
OK wait. It's 1972 & your wife is driving the '70 Hemi Roadrunner to the grocery store & she gets in a wreck. The upper rail of the radiator support & the left rear quarter panel (among other things) need to be replaced. Car goes into the body shop & they replace sheetmetal with new stuff from Chrysler - nobody even knows or cares about the numbers stamped in these places, so nothing gets "transferred" in the process. Original bent sheetmetal with these numbers gets trashed by the body shop. Oops! Not a real Hemi Roadrunner anymore!
In my book, here's a re-creation or a made-from-nothing car: Guy buys a 1970 318 Challenger. He pulls the drivetrain & drops in a 440, adds the R/T hood, adds rear valence with cutouts, the proper torsion bars, springs, brakes, rally gauges, etc. Then he has fender tags made to match what he built, & maybe he even has the vin tag from a wrecked car on a dash pad & title. OK, this car was made from something that no longer existed so this car would not be "real" in my book. Does someone make dash vin tags? For any price? Well, you need a title to match that, so that would be tough. Currently, I have a title for a 1970 Challenger R/T from an Arizona wrecking yard from back in the 80's. What if I gave it to someone & they decided to make a car to match that tag? Now I know that car was junked a long time ago so if someone had the title & tags & they resurrected it, it would be a fake in my book.
This wrecked Mod Top car was still in existence (assuming all the content in this thread is true which I assume it is) so it is a REAL car, but in very bad shape. What do you do? Crush it? If you took the rubble to a place like Roger Gibson Restoration & said "RESTORE IT - PRICE DOES NOT MATTER" I guarantee someone would make it like new again. And it would be a REAL car, not a new creation. If they re-bodied the car, transferred the numbers so you couldn't tell, but told you they did not re-body it, how could you tell? Would this make it any less real?
See, I told you;
I actually agree with pretty much everything you said. The Hemi RR in your first example would remain a Hemi RR (I should have mentioned the VIN swap as a key rebody point) albeit one that takes a significant value hit 45 years later for not having the body numbers! However the non-disclosed rebody, wouldn't be a "real" car anymore IMO....at least not according to any definition that *I'm* comfortable with.
All I was really saying is that there will NEVER be any agreement on where the "restoration by rebody" line-in-the-sand resides. Personally, If you can use more than 50 percent of the original unibody, I would consider that the car may not be a rebody....others have wildly different definitions;....from "if you change a fender it's a rebody" all the way to "there is nothing wrong with welding in a 6" section of the body containing the stamp and using some new rivits to move the VIN over".
...even if you have a definition YOU can agree to yourself, you'll find a car that straddles that line.
Dave
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Re: A12 Mod Top Bee
[Re: Stewpar]
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02/12/15 09:08 PM
02/12/15 09:08 PM
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I too would live to see any pictures and info on this car.
It's only about 20 minutes from you........
Anyone else catch this? The A12 Mod Top car?
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Re: A12 Mod Top Bee
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09/02/17 01:19 AM
09/02/17 01:19 AM
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It's on the ModTop registry now #129 and in very good hands with one of the top A12 guys anywhere.
Last edited by mopargem; 09/02/17 10:46 AM.
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Re: A12 Mod Top Bee
[Re: B5Superbird]
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09/02/17 03:29 PM
09/02/17 03:29 PM
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One of my good friends - a guy that worked for us back in the 80's-90's, had an entire roll of the blue/green Mod Top material. His dad worked for Chrysler back in the glory years & seemed like they were throwing it away so he grabbed some - he got several rolls. They reupholstered their patio furniture with it, but still had a roll left over. He sold it maybe 10 years ago to someone - Legendary did not buy it. Anyway, I still have a 10" x 10" square of it somewhere. This thread is awesome.
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Re: A12 Mod Top Bee
[Re: Old buddy]
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09/03/17 01:26 AM
09/03/17 01:26 AM
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It's on the ModTop registry now #129 and in very good hands with one of the top A12 guys anywhere. The restoration is underway. My goal is to have this car back together for the 50th A12 anniversary tour in 2019. As everyone knows, it is an extensive project. Two years will go by quickly. Any news on the mod top A12? The 2nd owner of it lives right up the street from me here in Ohio. I've seen all his pics of it in its early 70s glory. He had a 67 tri power 427 Corvette convertible before he bought the SuperBee. He actually traded a 69 or 70 Mach 1 for it PM sent. I would love to speak to him. DD
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