Yeah, what this guy is doing is a bit on the reckless side. But even if you do make a Frankenstein vehicle (which I have done, although it was my own), the liab

Yeah, what this guy is doing is a bit on the reckless side. But even if you do make a Frankenstein vehicle (which I have done, although it was my own), the liability is not going to be on the vehicle manufacturer. If you sue the manufacturer claiming a manufacturing fault, they're going to look at it and see that it's been (poorly) repaired. It's easy (if you're trained) to identify body damage repair work. The welds will be mig welded instead of spot welds, there will be little dings from the body hammer or marks from a grinding wheel, cuts from a plasma cutter or angle grinder look completely different from die cut, the paint and overspray is going to be slightly different. It's possible to make body work look like it just rolled off the assembly line, but it's only economical on million dollar classics. I genuinely don't want to live in a world where I can't get replacement parts to fix my vehicles, and this is one more example of why I don't like Tesla.