[njsteve]

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Removal of the Hidden/Partial VINs is not illegal, Removing the VIN Plate itself and re-installing it on another car is.

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Thank you for restating current state of the law to the above people. I can't stress this enough: There is NO recognozed exception to the illegality of removing a VIN tag from one car and attaching it to another. Period!

If you remove the VIN tag from a car during its restoration and then reattach that same tag to the same car it came off of, that is not a crime; that is a repair.

The issue of certification as an original COPO or any other vehicle is irrelevent to the fact that the car is now illegal in the eyes of the law.