Re: '64 Dart GT Hardtop ?? (Was Fish impounded...)

[george smith <bt6t4@xxxxxxxxx>]

My VIN is also secured with small phillips head screws
on my Polara. Anyone else?

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> Some folks here have data on the methods used to
> affix v.i.n. tags on 
> fenders  which _SHOULD_ assure the diligent Motor
> Vehicle folks that the 
> tags are real.  Of course, the fact that lots of the
> MV folks are not as 
> old as our vehicles may enter into the deal.  That,
> and I would guess 
> the manufacturers started out with little if any
> Federal "guidance" as 
> to the format for the ID tags can easily result in a
> bit of confusion on 
> the part of "Officialdumb".
> 
> For what it's worth, two early A bodies in my
> posession and a third I 
> found on the internet have their VIN tags secured
> with phillips headed 
> sheet metal screws.  In all cases, I have no reason
> to believe that the 
> vcehicles have had tags swapped, because the tags
> and the fenders they 
> are screwed to have matching rust and paint
> patterns.  I suppose those 
> _could_ be faked by someone with the correct
> materials and lots of time.
> That hardly seems likely on Early 60's Dodge Dart
> 170, 270, and GTs that 
> have not even been restored.
> 
> Of course, the disconnect is that reasonable folks
> expect the public 
> "servants" to act with a bit of what we laughingly
> call "common sense".
> (grumble, grumble, grumble...)
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