Trim tag swapping

[PeteLeathersac]

Great topic...all my personal opinions here to follow..

Galen is repopping the Mopar tags also I believe Marti is for the Fords too and I can't say I'm in agreement with anyone doing it, BUT...depending on what info they offer to anyone questioning them on specific tags, I still have a small window of reason open considering they could be the lesser of the evils...again depending on how they repond to queries of questionable tags WHEN THEY DO KNOW the answer..

'Trim tags' company who repop the GM tags is knowingly making money assisting in fraud cars and is not a help to the hobby...they only continue to help create even more BS also their services help seperate the real tags from their genuine cars thus ruining future projects for the purists..

I recall the fonts were slightly different on the Marti tags and wondered if it's on purpose or not...again, need to learn more before judging..

Don't know enough about Galen's tags yet but I've dealt with him on a few occasions over the years and always considered him a straight up guy...only now w/ the tag scene am I on the fence until more is known of his tag service...I believe it's called GTS?.

Marti's decoding services are from real documents in PHS & Canadian GM car fashion so a fake set of numbers can't be decoded..

Galen's decoding is from experience and a database of cars so he's not able to document a new to him Vin, thus could be tricked...not easily but possible..

There's supposedly Buick GSX documents recently found...maybe not all but some so if true, documenting would be similar to services of PHS & Canadian GM cars..

As I've mentioned here before, I read years back that GM US vehicle documents are supposed to exist but in train box cars of paper and microfilm that would require years of labour to go through and sort into a format that you could ever look anything up.. I heard this from a GM Canada source back in the 80's when the Canadian documents became available...could be BS but is nice to have hanging over the fraudsters heads so they know their games could be someday exposed?

~ Pete