[Tigers] e bay Alger 140189086032

[Tony McNulty]

Gotta wonder how a vehicle with an obviously altered VIN plate can have a 
"clean title" -- anyone ask the seller that question? ... just a thought.

Tony Mc



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tigerman" <Tigerman67 at hotmail.com>
To: <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] e bay Alger 140189086032


> It would be interesting to know, how many Tigers have been reported stolen
> and unrecovered.
>
> I'm afraid alot of these classic cars would be very easy to chop up and 
> sell
> on ebay these days. :-(
>
> Steve
>
>> If it is a Tiger shell, then you could present it to the TAC committee
>> for scrutiny... But going further than that to re-establish its
>> provenance is going to be chancy. If it turns out that the true original
>> VIN (based on, hypothetically, matching ID numbers on the transmission,
>> diff, and keys, to a particular Tiger record in Norm's database) matches
>> a vehicle marked as 'stolen' in the relevant DMV's database, then the
>> DMV may make efforts to return the car to its rightful owner... And
>> charge everyone inbetween with posession of stolen property.
>> If they decide that they can't accurately establish the provenance of
>> the vehicle, then they might just assign it a state VIN... Or they might
>> take it to the crusher.
>>
>> So on the one hand it would be good to positively ID another Tiger that
>> may have been 'lost'... On the other hand, the consequences may be hard
>> to take.
>>
>> Theo
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