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A local used car place that also was a salvage yard used to bring their  butted together " projects" to the Buick dealer where I worked a few years ago to make them operational. One time they brought in a Cadillac that had been made of two wrecks. I don't recall if they had been two different years or different drive trains but after several days of trying to get things functional the service manager not so politely told the yard to take their P.O.S. out of our shop and not ever come back.

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I can remember in the late '60's some local body shops that would cut, slice, and dice Unibody cars that had been hit and meld them into a car that you would never realize had been done. This was in San Bernardino Ca. and I really don't recall what California was doing with the Title work to show if a car had been totaled or not. I remember an almost new '68 Mustang coupe that had been hit hard in the back and both quarters were bowed out and the doors wouldn't even close. They got the back half of another Mustang for repairs. They cut the car under the front firewall  and half way up the A pillar. I think they also got the doors from that car but I'm not 100 % sure. When they got done you would never know.   

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2 minutes ago, espo said:

I can remember in the late '60's some local body shops that would cut, slice, and dice Unibody cars that had been hit and meld them into a car that you would never realize had been done. This was in San Bernardino Ca. and I really don't recall what California was doing with the Title work to show if a car had been totaled or not. I remember an almost new '68 Mustang coupe that had been hit hard in the back and both quarters were bowed out and the doors wouldn't even close. They got the back half of another Mustang for repairs. They cut the car under the front firewall  and half way up the A pillar. I think they also got the doors from that car but I'm not 100 % sure. When they got done you would never know.   

A body shop in Ohio did that with my '86 Mustang LX after it was totaled in '94.  Replaced the back half.   I saw it in the shop in pieces after they did the cut. 

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