[njsteve]

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It's obvious you are just arguing for the sake of argument. It's great practice for lawyers, but as we all know, the louder you argue, doesn't make you more right in your argument.

The metal cowl trim plate is essentially protected under common law fraud statutes: if you put another trim tag on your car and then give the buyer the impression that the car always had that particular trim/option combination, you have committed fraud.

The reproduction of the conformance decal for your own car, is legal.

End of lesson.

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No argument here, hopefully just a friendly discussion.

Someone is missing or has a badly damaged cowl tag on a 1966 SS 396. They buy a real or reproduction cowl tag and put it on the car. They sell the car. Buyer finds out that the car is not factory correct. Who can be sued? The previous owner? The person who sold the real or reproduction cowl tag? The person who put the cowl tag on the car? If I remember correctly, according to your previous posts, all parties could be sued.

So someone gets a reproduction conforming sticker and puts it on their car. They sell the car and the buyer finds out that the sticker is bogus. Who gets sued? The previous owner, the maker of the sticker, or the guy who put it on the car?

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On the cowl tag: anyone with knowledge of the false information that was put on that tag could be held liable if someone else (a buyer) relied upon that false information.

If you got a repro of the exact original damaged cowl tag and put it on, no one is liable because no damage has occurred.

If you put on a repro of your original conformance decal, no one is liable because no damage has occurred.

If you swapped the metal VIN tag onto another body and had a conformance decal made up to match that newly installed VIN tag (or even carefully moved the original decal to a new body), the making and placing of the decal on the car, in and of itself is not a crime, but it will be used as further evidence of the criminal act of VIN tampering.