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The difference is in what is being represented for sale. There are many favorable aspects to a vehicle being titled as a given year. It is legal and very useful, and in many ways quite desireable. That is why it is porminently mentioned in a classified. A car titled as 1966 is generally exempt from smog and emission restrictions, just as one example.
Now.. Did the owner represent a car as being a 196x shelby cobra? If he did, and if it wasn't, that would be fraud. Of course the odds of finding an undocumented original car for private sale is pretty much zero. Documented original cars are for sale quite frequently they also sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. they are all painstakenly documented in the shelby registry and would most likely be for sale in a very public venue, Barrett Jackson, or other well known auction, or even E-Bay..
Any seller who hesitates to tell you the history of his car or has no documentation, tons of photo's, prior owners names and numbers, etc. component car or original, is just blowing smoke up your skirt and either is just fishing for a value or isn't really interested in selling.
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A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages... Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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