My soon to be FIL is looking to start a new project that he has been researching and planning for years. It is to basically wrap a C6 corvette with a 1960 corvette body.
Since most of the c6 body is essentially going to be cut off the car, it is sensible to start with a car that has been salvaged titled due to body/cosmetic issues.
The concern is obviously in the rebuild inspection. I know they are checking for major components / receipts / replaced parts lists. But will he have a chance when he pulls in with a car that barely resembles what the car is supposed to look like?
We’ve read through the DMV text on the subject, but I’m still not too clear on what the process actually entails.
Can someone who has went through this process chime in? Should using a salvage title car for a project of this sort even be a consideration, given the process that the state mandates?
even tho your using a c6 running gear, chassis(if possible), its still a 60 vette(titled). It should be like any other resto rod with a updated drivetrain id assume. i havent gone thru this but… just my cents.
FYI Cleveland power and perfomance will sell you a stripped down and running donor.
The goal would be to have the c6, interior and all, as stock, basically with the c1 panels wrapped around it. How could you register the car as the 1960 when the frame/unibody, engine, modern interior are clearly not from the 1960 car? (The body panels will likely be 3rd party replacements). This would be the way to go, I just don’t understand how it will work when you go get an inspection, get pulled over and issued a ticket and the registration states ‘1960’, etc…
I’m not a fan. They usually come out looking awkward like this. But to each their own.
Never ever ever ever try NYS on their salvage inspection.
The car passes easiest in stock form.
Any modifications will have to have documentation and then since the vehicle has been modified, they will have full discretion to say that it is not safe as stock, or even able to be inspected.
If you go this path, be prepared for it to go wrong and have a vehicle that you cannot register in NYS.
I’m guessing you also don’t have the title for the 60’s body. If so, you either will have to go to another state and clear the r title or try to get a clean title from an old 60s corvette to use.
A cop pulling you over won’t care that the engine or running gear isn’t from the 60s car and neither will inspection.
the papers match what your vin plate says, that is how you do this. If you use a car that has not been inspected it will be a battle that is not worth the frustration. get a old title and car and register whatever you are doing as that car. No cop is going to give 2 shits about what is going on when they see a car customized like this, because it is not worth the paperwork. If you were building hundreds of them to sell perhaps they would look into it.
essentially yes that is correct. Just make sure everything matches. You don’t want one number on a a fender and another on the firewall ect ect. The better question is who is looking?
Nobody would be looking, so I get where you’re coming from. I’m just having trouble wrapping my head around the concept of buying a piece of paper and a vin plate, riveting the vin plate into the 2011, and calling it a day, seeing that the car will be built nearly entirely with the 2011 and new fibreglass body components bought from a resto parts place. With going this route, what would you do, just pull all vin plates on the salvage 2011 car?
The c1 body panels will be purchased new as replacement parts. Literally, there will be little or no parts from an actual 1960, other than assorted trim pieces, headlights/taillights, etc.
Roadkill did this with their “Nascarlo” - basically a 70s Monte Carlo body only (with the VIN tag on the firewall) stretched over a circle track car chassis (full running, driving chassis, minus bodywork). The “car” is whatever the title is to - in that case a body - they don’t care what running gear is underneath.
