I've had a rather spirited discussion twice now with two of my friends, the most recent time being more spirited than the first time. It's something that seems rather simple to me, but it's two vs one here. I feel as though I'm right obviously, but I'm not perfect and I am wrong from time to time. I'm leaning towards both of these guys just really not grasping the concept here at all.
Friend #1 claims he knows a guy who has a barn full of "numbers matching" car engines.
Fabio says, "You can't have a numbers matching engine unless you have the car with the corresponding numbers. It takes two sets of numbers to make a match. No car with corresponding numbers, no match. An engine will have numbers on it, most do and have for decades. If all it takes is to have numbers on an engine to make a "numbers matching" engine, then all engines, even removed from their respective original vehicles, would be considered "numbers matching"."
My definition of numbers matching, correct me if I'm wrong, is the same numbers on the chassis as well as the engine, and in many (but not all) cases, the engine is specific to one car and one car only; the car it came from the factory in. Am I wrong?
Unless I'm missing something, you have a numbers matching vehicle, or a numbers matching engine in your vehicle. You don't have an engine on a shelf with absolutely no idea where the car is, or even if it exists anymore, that can be considered "numbers matching". You very simply do not have two sets of numbers, therefor having a "match" is not even possible, it's not even an option.
Let's hear it. I've been wrong before, or maybe I'm not?