is this dodgy

[Jelly]

As tempting as it may be to have Mex on your V5, you'll lose your vehicle if it emerges that you have ringed it..

 

 

where would you draw the line between ringing and reshelling??? my car is using a mex logbook but the shell is not type 49 (and all that crud)

 

and how hard is it to get a number stamped in your top plate? not hard really

 

so am i ringing or restoring?

 

Well you need to use an unregistered shell to reshell, so if for example I put a Mexico ID on my 1100 that would be ringing.

 

So many OSF owners have done it over the years however, it's now accepted practice within the scene..

 

If you have a VIN on your top plate that does not correlate with your V5, then you have a ringer. (just grind it down until it doesn't show anymore! )

[russ350lc]

TO RESHELL YOU NEED TO BE THE OWNER OF BOTH VEHICLES AND HAVE TO USE SOMETHING LIKE 60% OF THE CHOSEN CAR. TO RING YOU ONLY NEED TO BE THE OWNER OF ONE.

[tim]

I'd say ringing is a term that has come about from crooks hiding a stolen cars identity in order to sell it, and is quite different to using a donor shell to restore a rotten car.

 

why not use the id from the donor shell

[Vista]

I'd say ringing is a term that has come about from crooks hiding a stolen cars identity in order to sell it, and is quite different to using a donor shell to restore a rotten car.

 

why not use the id from the donor shell

 

Fair point, but they don't always have ID's maybe having had new strut tops, VIN tags & documents missing etc. Plus if you had two same spec shells with two ID's one tax exempt and one not, which ID would you use to build the car up with? I know which one I'd go for.

[Guest M.Bird DOHC]

Who cares!

 

Its another OSF on the road!

 

The main reason to do it would be to make the car seem older therefore TAX exempt!

 

Which in my opinion is the BEST reason making a saving from the RIP OFF goverment to whom we must OBEY!

 

[Cookie]

A car leaves the factory with its own personal identity! if you change that identity then as far as im concerned it has been rung, when people 're-shell' a car it is a different car, lets be honest a car is the shell, no-one can say my car is mainly my seats or mainly my engine, the round ones a car is the shell!

 

and if its so not important whether or not that someone has put a mexico or rs id on thier car then why do it in the first place????

 

We all know the only reason to put a mex or rs id on an escort is to triple or more its value, I for one would take it Very BADLY if i shelled out for a mex / rs and paid a premium to find it was originally a 1300 shell or whatever, when a car dies then so should its id, same as when a person dies you don't give their passport or birth certificate to someone else it's gone!

[MadMark2]

I know its a long time ago, but ford did this to nearly all there mk1 + mk2 escort rally cars.

So many times you hear on dvds " vatenen rolled it in greece, it was reshelled and used again in the rac" etc etc........

 

Does this mean that stw, poo, xev etc etc, arnt worth sod all because there on there 2nd, 3rd 4th shells ?????????

 

If what your saying about ringing is correct then why isnt the govenment going to motor museums etc and claiming half the cars in there as "rung" and crushing them ????

 

I agree that falsifying a cars id purely for economic gain is wrong, but to give life to an old reg number is a good thing surely ?

 

Ford thought so !

[Onyx Dave]

At present there are 2 LVX 942J Escort rally cars on the show seen, but which one is the real one

The answer is they both are and there both not

Both cars are NOT the shell that left the factory when new but they both were used in rallying by Ford using the LVX 942J reg

This has also happened with 000 aswell afew years ago.

[Vista]

I see a shell as a spare part, granted its the biggest and most important spare part. But if the manufacturer can do it and it still be legal then I don't see why the average restorer can't replace like with like. And I do mean like with like, an RS isn't an RS without the right spec shell no matter what it says on the V5C. Total agreement with Cookie on that, some people have lusted after an RS for many years, couldn't afford one when they were new cars but can now, to be tucked up by a replica with an RS V5C would be the pits.