Buying/Selling Firewall Tags......

[Pantera]

But it was not the original vin plate they put back on the car, but one stamped on sheet metal and pop riveted on. NO? They had good reason to use the old # in that case as the rest of the hidden #'s will jive with the dash vin. Each state handles it slightly differently but on he whole they are all doing it similary and with documation that has to go with the car or be registered with that state. Somewhere down the line someone may question the new vin plate and the state assigned # and records of the deal will tell the story.

We as a body of car nuts want to see things like this happen so that each of us is protected from some bastard selling stolen cars. So if you see a vin that has just common old pop rivets holding it on you know to look harder at that car.

Pantera

[firstgenaddict]

Exactly Pantera. That is how the guy got popped. He did not have a tag on the car so the officer asked hime for registation info. The officer also asked him to pop the hood.(we had located the car and informed the police that we suspected it to be stolen) He checked the vin plate in the engine compartment, it didn't match the winshield one and Boom guy goes to the slammer. Turns out he had been buying Corvettes, shipping them out of the country then keeping a record of the Vin#'s. Stealing Corvettes then using the Vin's of the cars exported. Thus there was no overlap in the registrations.