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Old 03-29-2006, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Mismost
You know I see strings of mini-trucks heading south into Mexico all the time and I see cars outta Mexico heading North all the time. What would stop you from just buying the truck and driving it home? Find a similar "salvage truck" and salvage the VIN numbers....car crooks do it all the time! Ain't legal I'm sure of that, but it ain't like bank robbing either....you're just helping the truck make it's transition to it's new country and making it easy for the local deptartment of motors to do their paperwork and collect the taxes. Don't break any laws, but bend 'em a bit.

Frankly, I liked the buy a crate motor and transplant idea. I don't bend near as many laws as I used to!
Tamping with vehicular VIN numbers is a felony.

swap the drive line but by no means do you want to touch the VIN numbers.
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