Small box of Ford GT

Antihero said:

MazdaFace said:

I'd pay 60 bucks for it. I have no idea what I'd do with it but id definitely pay 60 bucks for it. 

from what i see $60 bid fast becomes $400ish on copart

$250 bid becomes $375

In reply to Professor_Brap :

Does that include tax, buyers fee and others?

So I'm curious here.  No one has bid, and the page was last updated 5/11/2018 @ 6:14pm...

When does the auction end?

In reply to Antihero :

Yes it does minus tax. In ohio you pay tax when you transfer the title over, a whole $7.50 in my case. 

 

In reply to Hungary Bill :
 

It usually goes up for live auction and what your seeing is prebids. 

In reply to Professor_Brap :

I'm really curious if this will actually attract any bids. Owning the VIN might be fun if it were 60 or 100 bucks.

What was the Ferrari/Bugatti/Porsche where there's two cars recognized as the same chassis number since the car was wrecked and two were built using parts? I sort of wonder if you could do that with the VIN.

akylekoz said:

How can a shaft of gears be that cleanly burned out of their case.   I bet this was stripped of the most valuable parts the set fire with a few pieces added in to look like it used to be a car.  Insurance Fraud? 

I saw a Jeep transmission for sale on eBay that looked like that.  The aluminum melted away from the gears.

(IIRC the listing was something like $500.  More WTF)

The0retical said:What was the Ferrari/Bugatti/Porsche where there's two cars recognized as the same chassis number since the car was wrecked and two were built using parts? I sort of wonder if you could do that with the VIN.

Porsche 917-021 and 917-01-021 had a similar problem.  Those cars were built from a mix of 3 or 4 cars and one serial number.  They fixed it by adding the "01" to one of them after an awkward social encounter at a large motorsport event where the two cars met and they were both wearing the same serial number.

There's lot's of cars out there with the same vin.  The practice was rife in the late 80's early 90's in Europe before the internet made research so much easier.  Some were somewhat 'genuine' in that one person had an engine and built the rest of the car around the engine number while someone else had the chassis but no engine.  Others were totally innocent as it was common for factories to swap chassis after a racing accident, then years later someone bought the original damaged tub and re-built it.  Others were flat out deliberate fraud where someone owned a car, then had one or two more exact copies  built then used different parts of the original on all two or three chassis and sold them off for profit.  There are even wealthy owners who build exact 100% replicas of vehicles they own so they can race the 'recreation' passing it off as the real one but preventing the potential total loss in a racing accident.