How about a bill of sale for the truck from 72? (hopefully, with the engine
VIN on it & BTW, you do have a title for the long gone truck that has your
current engines S/N on it, right?)
Regards,
Doug Pewterbaugh
dpewter@msn.com
Denton, TX
49 3104 216 5-window
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Allen <thomasa@halcyon.com>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: [oletrucks] VIN plate question
>Here's a VIN number problem that I visited on myself but hopelfully someone
>here in Wahington will have some suggestions. Shortly after I bought my
>3800 in 1972 I pulled the motor out of another AD pickup I owned and
>swapped it with the motor in the 3800. At that time the VIN number on the
>title was the same as the engine. I checked when I bought it. Well, the
>years went by and I didn't think much about it, got new license plates and
>a coresponding new title (still with the engine number as the ID number).
>The truck I swapped motors with is long since gone. So now I'm told by the
>license agent that the state doesn't use engine numbers anymore but vin
>numbers so there's no longer a form to fill out for an engine change. So
>now the only thing that matches my title are the plates. What to do now? Im
>afraid to open the can of worms that will surely result by going to the
>State Patrol since I can no longer prove that that plate number ever really
>belonged to that truck. I'm concerned now that someone will check the vin
>number against the registration and confiscate the truck then and there.
>How can I prove that I've owned anything other than the plates and title
>since 1972.
>
>Worried in Seattle
>
>Tom Allen
>
>
>
>Tom Allen
>Seattle, WA
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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