[DeTomaso] Does anyone know what happened?

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

Bob,

That car never had a salvage title.   It was destroyed in Canada, then sold 
to Florida, with a clean title, repaired, and then bounced from one owner to 
another.

Having said that, for a long time it was possible, if you knew how, to 
re-title a car in a particular state (Alabama I think), and the 'salvage' would go 
away.   This is called 'washing' a title.

The feds cracked down hard on them a few years ago so it's probably much more 
difficult.

I recently saw a Pantera that was built from the pieces of two wrecks.   It 
was given a new, clean title in Arizona, but both De Tomaso VINS were 
confiscated, and the car was issued a non-De Tomaso VIN (just a seemingly random series 
of characters and digits) conforming to the current (longer) standard.

Mike


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