I think we just had this discussion two months ago or so. In the E-type
world, repro VIN tags are de rigeur for a ground-up restoration, and
there is active, shameless, discussion on how to best reproduce the
stampings. Nobody even talks about whether it is legal or not.
Of course, they don't have the fraud problems we do - perhaps it's a
somewhat unique situation here.
BTW, just added to my Brit car collection - a Mini-Moke. Anybody know
what that is?
Chris
bob josten wrote:
> I understand how someone can make a bunch of 'new' vin tag blanks but
> how are the buyers of these blanks going to try and fake the punched
> numbers and letters? That part of the process seems the most difficult.
> Isn't the punch typeface an odd size and font?
>
> I always imagine someone buying one of these tags off of ebay,
> spending countless hours figuring out the best way to approximate the
> punched vin information and then as they pop the hood for the first
> time at a club event they get the question 'wow, where did you get
> that fake vin tag?' before they can finish propping open the hood.
>
> Bob
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