TMCP #516: Ask Rick – Is Removing the VIN Tag a Good Thing or Bad? Bonus Interview with Scott Janson from Woodward – Performance Variant Manager at General Motors
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Robert Kibbe
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🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Happy September! Football is here and we can let the Fall celebrations begin. I once again got to catch up to Rick Schmidt from National Parts Depot to ask the burning questions that are on your mind to get his opinion on the burning questions we need to know most. Specifically, pulling VIN tags off of clunkers for a restoration, and Rick's take on buying a 2023 HEMI car as an investment hedge! (To cut to the chase on the HEMI cars; Rick's take is to skip the hype and pick up when in a few years. They'll be plentiful and a better deal.)
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 516. |
| 0:05.1 | This week, Rick Schmidt is here for our first show of the fall for the Ascrec segment, |
| 0:09.3 | and we're going to run the gambit. |
| 0:10.7 | Now, we are going to talk about the new Dodge Reveals for 2023 and beyond. |
| 0:15.3 | Like, should you get one of those limited edition chargers and stick it away for 50 years, |
| 0:19.1 | something like that? |
| 0:20.2 | But remember that news you heard about Kansas and Arizona changing the laws to make it legal to remove a Vintag while restoring a car? |
| 0:27.6 | Well, maybe that was more localized than we thought. It all depends on where you live. |
| 0:31.6 | Of course, the big question is, does this mean that the whole body shell, which you can now buy for several classic muscle cars, |
| 0:38.4 | can be considered a replacement part in the restoration? |
| 0:41.7 | It gets a little sticky. |
| 0:43.0 | There's a title and there's a VIN tag back there, taking that off and just applying it to this completely new reproduction shell. |
| 0:54.6 | This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:01.4 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:07.7 | If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:14.0 | Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:17.6 | Yes, indeed I am, Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | Well, here we are, everybody. |
| 1:22.7 | Rick is back for another fun Ask Rick segment that I know you will all love. |
| 1:27.4 | We are going to attempt to tackle |
| 1:29.2 | the moral debate about whether replacing the whole body on a car is the same thing as replacing |
| 1:35.5 | a floor pan, or a door, or a fender. The Arizona and Kansas laws that make it possible to pull a |
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