</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If the guy owns both TA's it's his business what goes on behind closed doors.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't agree with that. I could clone my car into an accurate copy of a '69 TA vert but it still would not BE a '69 TA vert. I could clone it into a Sprint but it still would not be a Sprint.

If the car is "numbers matching", I presume it is numbers matching to the red interior car, so what happens to the drivetrain and identity of the donor car? It ceases to exist, just so one option can be transferred?

The recipient car could have been left alone, the red interior could have been grafted into a "common" Firebird and with the transplanted tags and numbers no one would have been the wiser. Why lose one of the original TA's? Maybe the car it was built upon was not a TA at all...then would it be fraud? $85K and counting for a set of tags and a piece of paper?

There are hidden VINs, did he restamp them all? Are all the recipient car parts date correct for the build of the donor car? Lots of worms in this can, it would be nice to have a few hard facts to view.