In the early 90's, I started searching wrecked car lots for my perfect car. After a few weeks of looking, I found it. A 1990 Dodge Probe, completely crushed and mangled beyond repair. Most of the windows were broken out and a large portion of the engine was missing. The lot owner sold it to me for $450.
Days later, I stole a 1990 Dodge Probe from a mall parking lot and took it home. I'd purchased a repair manual on the Probe from Auto Zone and practiced hot wiring my own Probe. Hot wiring the Dodge Probe at the mall took less than 10 minutes.
Using a lighter, I was able to melt away all the dashboard plastic around the VIN number plate on my wrecked Probe, so I had about an 1/8th of an inch between the VIN plate and the metal that it was attached to. Then I used a Dremel tool to cut it off of the dash from underneath.
To remove the VIN plate from my new Probe, I used needle nose pliers to bend up the edges, then the Dremel to cut it out. I put the new VIN plate in it's place and secured it with super glue. It was impossible to see that anything was out of place with it. From there, I just had to throw away the license plates and register my new Probe with the DMV.
I took my new Probe to a cheap paint shop that painted it the same color as the wrecked Probe, which was dark blue. Then I sped everywhere for the next month, trying to get a cop to catch me. It's amazing that it took me a month to finally get pulled over. The cop didn't look at my VIN but he did run my plates, gave me my ticket and I was on my way. I just wanted to test the car with a cop, to make sure I wouldn't be arrested when pulled over.
My new 1990 Dodge Probe only had 37,000 miles on it when I got it and I used it every day for the next 5 years. This story is a big fat lie. I never did this, but I always wanted to.
