Matching numbers and documentation are no problem.

This is the Wild West of the car market. Some of the cars I've sold have had a completely new, and fully documented, history created.

Years ago I worked with Tom Hoving and the Metropolitan in NYC. Tom estimated at 40% of the art hanging on walls around the world was fake.

A few decades back when the FIA checked up on vintage racers in Europe that held FIA Heritage Certificates the discovered that at least half the cars were fakes. That's when they got out of the certification business.

Richard Newton