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wrenchhead
That is a good question and I don't know the answer.
Stretched limos generally are production cars that have a section added in the middle. The suspension is strengthed to hold the extra load but I think the engine and body parts of both ends are original. I would bet that they are titled according to the original car. I built a hot rod as a youth - custom frame and suspension, buick engine and model A ford from the firewall back. It was titled as a model A ford.
For non-stretched limo (older cars) I think some were made at the factory but most were probably bodied somewere else. In the 1920's and 1930's it was common for big fancy cars that the car maker sold a rolling chassis and some other coachbuilder made the body. For example, I don't think the Duesenburg factory made anything but a chassis + engine - I don't think they made bodies at all. But all of them are known as duesenbergs.
Stretched limos generally are production cars that have a section added in the middle. The suspension is strengthed to hold the extra load but I think the engine and body parts of both ends are original. I would bet that they are titled according to the original car. I built a hot rod as a youth - custom frame and suspension, buick engine and model A ford from the firewall back. It was titled as a model A ford.
For non-stretched limo (older cars) I think some were made at the factory but most were probably bodied somewere else. In the 1920's and 1930's it was common for big fancy cars that the car maker sold a rolling chassis and some other coachbuilder made the body. For example, I don't think the Duesenburg factory made anything but a chassis + engine - I don't think they made bodies at all. But all of them are known as duesenbergs.