[RichSchmidt]

Buddy,a trim tag or fender tag is not part of a stamped or embossed method of identifying a vehicle since the codes on these tags are shared with other vehicles that could have identical tags.If it doesnt have the exact VIN of the vehicle on it,it is not an identifying tag.Changing a trim tag is no more an offense as installing a 454 emblem where a 307 emblem used to be.To put this into perspective,you could buy a pontiac firebird,change all the sheet metal to chevy camaro metal,put camaro emblems all over it and as long as the title tag and hidden vin's all match up you are perfectly legal.

There would be some slightly gray area here though.One area would be a tag that had both the VIN and option codes on it.If such a tag were replaced with a replica and carried the original VIN but new option codes things could get messy.An owner could say that the original tag was damaged to the point it was almost unreadable,and was duplicated from what could best be derived.As far as tags that dont carry the VIN,there are few laws against it.

As for that law in Ok. it doesn have much teeth other then in the collector car world since anybody can simply walk into the DMV and change the color of the vehicle on a title.Some states require that you have pictures of the car in a new color,but even thats a scam since if you repainted the car to hide the fact it is stolen of course you will have pictures of it in the new color.