turning a 57 210 into a Bel Air (not talking about dressing it up)

[Hot Rod 57 hips]

PEace,

what would i have to do to a 210 to MAKE it a Bel Air. i have the Bel Air parts but need to know what to swap on the cars and what to do to the body to modify it. i also would like to swap the VIN tags also. how would you guys go about it?

[Matt167]

Bel- Air is a trim package, you just put all the Bel Air trim on the 210, if you watched the '56 210 buildup on AHR, you will see that all they did was add the trim. Swapping the vin tag is tecnicly fraud, if you take the vin tag off a true Bel- Air and put it on a 210, then sell the 210 cloned as a Bel air, that's fraud, specially being the tag on the door opening isn't the only place that there is a vin, theres a body tag on the cowl, numbers that match the car on the rear end and engine. You would be building a Bel- Air clone, not a Bel- Air.

[Swifster]

I guess you should change the 'My Hot Rod' to a Chevrolet 210, eh? You going to make it a fuelie too?

Changing the VIN number from one car to another isn't technically fraud, it is fraud. And illegal. The only way to make a 'genuine Bel Air is to start with a genuine Bel Air. Selling this car as a Bel Air, only to have someone else find out down the road begs that the questions be asked; Do you like jail? Would you risk everything you own in a lawsuit brought on by this fraud?

It's thinking like yours that put a lot of people off the old car hobby.

[BlownGoat]

Nothing wrong with making it into a bel air and enjoying it, hell dont even have to tell anyone its not a bel air...UNTIL you go to sell it! Dont swap the VIN tag thats a no no.