This story came out a few days ago about Unique Performance being raided by local police but I have been under the weather so I did not get to write about.

Well it all went down on Tuesday of this week when police raided Unique Performance in Farmers Branch, Texas and confiscated more than 61 vehicles as part of their criminal investigation into what police are alleging as Title-Washing.

According to police Unique Performance has been altering vehicle identification numbers (VIN’s) on the Shelby continuation vehicles they have been building.  How it goes is Unique would buy 1960’s Mustangs that were pretty much dead to the world with “salvage titles” meaning the car is a total loss and not road worthy.  Unique was also buying 1960’s Mustangs in good condition with titles that were perfect.  The police are alleging in order to hide the salvage status Unique swapped VIN’s from similar model cars that didn’t have salvage titles to the cars with good titles thus keeping the car in good standing and selling them as Shelby continuation vehicles.

What the police are alleging just does not make sense to me, why would Unique start with a “salvage” titled vehicle frame instead of one that was in good standing condition which they also were buying. Also why would they swap a VIN from a “non-salvaged” titled vehicle to one that was salvaged thus leaving the car in good condition with no title.  Makes no sense to me, maybe I am missing something or my thinking is off.

No charges have been filed according to police but they do expect some to be filed once they sift through all the evidence.  Something tells me this will drag on for months and production of Shelby contiuation vehicles will further get behind making customers even wait longer for their cars.