Kyboshed

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if its mint.. why not swap out EVERYTHING on the TD into it and reregister it with a colour change..

you can keep the original registration, go for a respray and replace the chassis plates..

the spec for the TD will not have changed, the power and running gear also.

I'm curious, in what way is that legal ?
From the point of view that you've changed the chassis plates to something else - which I understand happens a lot with classics and also racers/rally cars, where an original set of VIN plates and the chassis number chop can be worth a lot from a stuffed shell - but it smells of ringing so I'm not sure how you get around that ?


But from the point of view of insurance, it's still modified. The original car is no more, it's a new chassis, so still an engine swap, but also a chassis, interior, everything swap and thus still you must declare it.


Would you be 100% sure that the NAD and TD chassis were identical ?
Holes, captive nuts and even metal thickness or bracing can different between models - you'd have to be sure that it was 100% like for like to suggest there were no modification from factory spec - other than welds around the chassis number

Just very fishy territory unless you are declaring modified anyway.