And how do you do that? How do you prove that tag and old title aren't old OBE items for that rebody car? Under pretty much all laws, in fact I know of no exceptions, once a state issues a title for a vehicle, that title is the official documentation for that vehicle unless someone can show proof that there are conflicting numbers, such as the VIN on the dash tag doesn't match the VIN stampings on the body. If those are all the same, then any claims that someone makes that it's a rebody are just that... claims that can't be legally proven.
Where the seller is not being fulsome is he/she states they know who has the original tag and title, but those don't mean diddly. What matters is the original VIN tag and stamped parts, which the seller says could be found, which means they either don't know where they are or know they've been used to rebody. If those parts have been used to rebody another car, and that car has been legally titled, then the buyer of this car is buying a serious pig in a poke because every court will assume a state performed it's due diligence before issuing a title and minus some real evidence, such as a conflict between the dash tag and the body, then anything an expert could testify to would be an opinion and not facts in evidence.
--(CNN stuff for sure)
