Continuation CSX a "Kit car"?

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Originally Posted by Power Surge

Not a dumb question, I was dumbfounded at first as well.

When I had 4819 on order, and guys like Jdog and such (with 4795) still hadn't gotten their cars, CSX 4855 popped up for sale on ebay. I contacted the seller and asked how that could be possible, that a car over 50 numbers ahead of what had been delivered, could have been available. The response was that it was 4750, re-VINed. The reason? I have no idea. I verified it with a few people I knew, and the current owner posts on the Shelby forums.

I still have no idea why it was re-VINed. My guess would be that maybe it was stripped down and rebuilt, as the first bunch of CAV cars had some serious quality issues.

As I stood looking at CSX5750 at the Las Vegas Shelby Operations with some key Shelby Manager/employees I was told that CAV did such a poor job building the car that they decided to start over with it. It then became a Las Vegas built car and not a South African built car. I do think they said they ended up replacing the frame.