News: Vintage Corvette owner wins legal settlement

[Rob]

Vintage Corvette owner wins legal settlement

BY: Thomas Prohaska
Published: 11/11/2012, 11:43 PM
The Buffalo News

A North Tonawanda car collector who bought a vintage Chevrolet Corvette for nearly $50,000 and then spent another $75,000 restoring it, only to find the vehicle identification plate had been altered, has reached a legal settlement with the seller.

Ronald A. Ellis, of Newfane, who sold the 1966 car to Robert C. Ernst of North Tonawanda, was granted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal by North Tonawanda City Judge William R. Lewis.

The decision means the nine felonies originally lodged against Ellis will be dropped if he stays out of trouble for six months.

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[warren s]

Very bizarre story.

Ernst ( a "Collector") buys a car from Ellis for close to 50 grand, and doesn't notice or discover the vin tag isn't authentic until after he "restored" it for another 75 grand?



A group of judges at a car show years later discover the altered tag? Does the altered vin represent the car to be something other than what it actually is?