Step Dad said plate was only taken off for repaint. I forgot to ask him about the 2 holes above the vin. plate. Im hoping the customs inspection paper work, Canadian paperwork , vin. plate and partial vin on frame will be suffice.
We did as many verifications as possible before importing. Doing it had quite a price to do.
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Originally Posted by volksworld
the picture of the vin tag on the door frame clearly shows the 2 upper rivet holes where the cabs original larger 4 hole vin tag was attached...these were attached by the factory with rosette head rivets which at the time couldnt be purchased....so if anything was attached with regular pop rivets it was a red flag to the authorities...so what you have here is a truck that had a cab swap...and the legality of that varies state by state....some view it as you simply replaced a rusted out or wrecked cab with another one..(some want the resulting vehicle registered with the new cab numbers)...others think you stole a truck and put your #s on it....in NY if you created something like this you were supposed to show up at a dmv inspection station with titles and registrations for both vehicles and once they were sure that neither one was stolen they made both sets of numbers invalid and assigned a vin to the vehicle via a sticker on the jamb like a kit car...did most people do this? of course not they just swapped tags and drove them into the ground....cause there was no reason for anyone to really check....but once you try to bring the car into another state( or in your case another country) there are inspectors that have to look at the car to verify that is legit and thats where you might run into trouble....seen some here in NC that had pop rivet vin tags and they had to post some sort of bond to get them titled....so depending on your states procedures and the mood and intelligence of the inspectors involved "your experience may vary"
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