Muscle Cars & Cloning
With the quality of the workmanship on some of the muscle car
clones, it's tough to know if your getting ripped off or taken
advantage of, but you can still be smart about it, by learning
about the car that you want to buy, getting ripped off will make
you hateful and sour about the whole car industry, and it's not
all of the industry that's trying to rip you off, just a small
portion of the very weak ones.
Now if your looking at buying a classic cars you should learn
all you can about the model that your buying, and learn about
the person who's selling it, check out the car and be sure it's
what it has been represented to you as being, get some
references on the guy, or the company selling the car, first and
foremost is that you know that the seller or his company is
reputable.
You can do this by going to places like http://ussearch.com on
the net, or the Better Business Bureau located at http://bbb.com
on the net, or you could use a private investigator to find info
about the seller and his business, your looking for info, like
his criminal record, and from the bbb look for things like, has
anybody got a complaint against his business at this time, and
what are the complaints, a complaint can be frivolous and have
no merit, look for the serious stuff.
Now as to the car it's self, this can be very tricky, you need
to look at the vin number, and make sure that it claims that the
car is what the person sell it said it was, on GM cars you also
need to look at the rpo number, this number will tell you if the
engine and transmission are the correct one for the car your
buying, or if things have been changed, the rpo code must match
what the vin plate says, you can also look at things like rear
end tags and transmission tags. Use this desoder for GM & Mopar
http://muscle-car-resto.com/vin .
On mopar products you need to look at this like the trim tag,
usually located on the left inner fenderwell, you also need to
look at the vin plate, this will tell you things like the make
or manufacture of the car, the body style, the price class
whitch is what the car was built for, what engine should be in
the car, what assembly plant it was built at, look here for a
mopar vin decoder http://muscle-car-resto.com/mopar-vin.html
you'll want to match the vin up to the codes on the engine and
transmission
http://www.yearone.com/updatedsinglepages/Id_info/mopar/mopar%20c
asting%20numbers/castingnumbers1.html .
For more info on these sujects check out our muscle car
community, loated at Muscle car community .
Muscle car restoration
About the author:
David C. Atkin owner of Red Line Restoration, I've been in the
automotive business for about 20 years, and I love the old cars,
and want to see them stay on the road.
Written By: David C. Atkin
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