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Hi Ron,
It's your right to modify your own cars,
either for the purposes of your own enjoyment - or, even, like Mr. Glassel, purely for personal financial gain.
However.... there are laws in this country. While
these laws do not prevent you from chopping up your hardtop into a
convertible, they DO specifically forbid the transfer of VIN tags from
vehicle to vehicle. For good reason.
I personally inspected, on behalf of a prospective
buyer, a Glassel 300G "convertible " which was being offered for
sale. This car bore the VIN tag of an entirely different automobile - and the
data tag of yet another car ! Hardtops became convertibles, New
Yorkers became 300's, etc. . you get the idea. I also personally had to
explain to the new and very proud owner of a "Glassel" chopped hardtop, which
had changed hands many times since the butchery, that he had just paid over
$100,000 for a Frankenstein car, when he really thought he'd bought the real
McCoy.
Do as you wish to your own vehicles - but please do
not break the law. I can promise you that, if you switch VIN tags, someone
somewhere will get ripped off and hurt, down the line.
By the way - I drive all of my cars all of the
time.
John H.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:11
PM
Subject: [FWDLK] WOW, HARDTOPS CHANGED TO
CONVERTIBLES !!!!!!!!!
Hi
all,
Wow, I just read
the post of David Glassel the man who makes convertibles out of
hardtops. What a great ideal. If you are a purist and a
collector of numbers please excuse my thinking. I enjoy my collector cars and
drive them and do not loose any sleep over the numbers maybe not matching.
I am in the fun business when it comes to cars.
I used to be in the
numbers business when it came to cars. I was an extremist and perfectionist
and I would match wits with professional critics at car meets that also
matched numbers and that was our enjoyment. We would sit behind our
trailer queen vehicles and get an extreme high over other people saying "Wow
look at this beauty, what is it like to drive a car like that ?" It was hard
to answer that one question because being an extreme perfectionist when it
came to keeping them 100% stock and super low mileage---------I never really
got a chance to really drive it hardly
anywhere!!!!!!!
Then one
day I thought, fun is more important then money so I changed my thinking and
started driving my collector cars to shows, drive in restaurants, cruises,
etc., even to Sunday church. Weather permitting also long Sunday drives that
seemed to make everyone else that saw the car on the highway happy
also.
The way I look
at it is I don't think that someday when I am lying on my deathbed that my
last words to my love ones will be "Listen everybody, my cars has super low
miles on it so it is worth extra $???? dollars more------ so buy me a nice
Tombstone.
NO, NO, NO, I AM GOING TO SMILE AND SAY "WOW WHAT A RIDE WHAT
FUN THOSE CARS WERE--------------MAKE SURE YOU SELL THEM TO SOMEONE WHO WILL
ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS I
DID!!!!!!!!!!"
Hmmmmmm, now let's see, -------------------which one of my collector cars
would look good with a convertible
roof???!!!!!!????
RON ALLYN SWARTLEY
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