There is already a lot of cheating going on around the classic car
01/11/2015
Actually, you might think, the matter is simple. A car was built, it was maintained and it still exists today. This is the normal case, but there are also other cases. For example, there are said to be seven Bugatticars with the same chassis number. Or three Porsche911 Carrera RS 2.7s with identical vehicle identification are said to exist. There are now more cars of certain vehicle types than were built back then!
This quickly gives rise to accusations of fraud, especially because a lot of money is involved today. But not everything that causes problems today was done with dishonest intentions or with the aim of ripping others off. Sometimes it was more likely ignorance or a kind of self-defense that vehicle owners used to achieve their goal, namely to drive the car of their dreams. Whether this is ethically and legally justifiable is another matter.
There is one consolation. The potential scams usually relate to a short list of vehicles in the top price segment. On the other hand, if you buy a Fiat 850 saloon from the 1960s or an Opel Rekord P1 from the 1950s, you hardly run any great risk of being double-crossed with a false chassis number.
