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Re: Urgent please, I need some help

To: <GuyotLeonF@aol.com>, "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Urgent please, I need some help
From: "fredd" <fal@hiwaay.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:39:06 -0800
Leon,

> > I have a new thing to worry me now.

You just started, there will be more "fun" to come.

> The shippers asked me for a letter from the factory showing the age of the
> car and it's VIN #, they said the BMIHT cert would do.

Correct.

> The VIN # is the same as on my car, although I have no engine # on the
block
> as it was milled off,

Engine #, avoid future problems by stamping that number in the block BEFORE
the car leaves the UK.
I imported/exported may cars in the last decades and I've learned to do all
this BEFORE shipping.

> but more to the point, the Cert shows the car as a
> saloon, although it is now a convertible, as is shown on my British
> registration document!
> I just hope they don't get over excited about that!
> It was a proper conversion, using all original convertible body parts in
> place of the saloon ones!

Might seem for them as a perfect example of a stolen car coming with a new
identity.

Serious, take parts catalogs with you that show that the parts are
interchangeble.

fredd

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