It can be used maliciously by third parties for creating "duplicate" cars. This has happened a number of times and certainly other unknown cases also exist.
I've heard of this happening with ultra-high value stuff, but it's an awful lot of trouble to go to for a 1986 4/4, I would think. Fortunately these days its much easier to ensure the history and provenance of a car is copiously and publicly documented, but in the old days when there could easily be gaps and contradictions in a car's history it was much more of an issue. There's an
interesting article here .
If anyone tried to clone C7114 and offer it at auction, people would be saying "Blimey, that's Tim's car isn't it? Surely you don't expect anyone to pay good money for that shite old nail?"
Much more of a risk these days is having the licence plates of one's tintop cloned, and there's not really anything one can do about that.
