Vin number identification when manufactured

[Chris Haynes]

The odds are that the engine in your car is not the one in it when it was new. You can go ahead a register it using your engine number but there are issues with this. A couple hypothetical situations. Your car is stolen. The thief brakes it into parts. Possibly the law discovers it. They will return the engine to you but you have no proof that the frame is yours because the number is not on your title. Your car is stolen. The engine is removed and gone. How do you prove the car is yours? Your car could be involved in an accident. Your insurance company discovers the serial number on your frame doesn't match your policy. Oops. I feel it is well worth the time and energy needed to uncover the frame number and register the car by that number. I am in the process of doing this on my '30 Tudor that is registered by the number that someone stamped on the Diamond Block engine which is B886. That number is bogus and means nothing.

[pj's junkers]

Sounds like a 29 town sedan. What are the first three numbers of the Briggs body number?

[Charlie Stephens]

Originally Posted by Chris Haynes

The odds are that the engine in your car is not the one in it when it was new. You can go ahead a register it using your engine number but there are issues with this. A couple hypothetical situations. Your car is stolen. The thief brakes it into parts. Possibly the law discovers it. They will return the engine to you but you have no proof that the frame is yours because the number is not on your title. Your car is stolen. The engine is removed and gone. How do you prove the car is yours? Your car could be involved in an accident. Your insurance company discovers the serial number on your frame doesn't match your policy. Oops. I feel it is well worth the time and energy needed to uncover the frame number and register the car by that number. I am in the process of doing this on my '30 Tudor that is registered by the number that someone stamped on the Diamond Block engine which is B886. That number is bogus and means nothing.

Chris,

I assume you are working the DMV on your change from the engine number to the frame number. When I transferred my '31 RDPU back in 1972 the DMV would not register a vehicle by the number on the engine but rather insisted on installing their own number on a tag they attached to the door jam. There was no choice at that time.

Charlie Stephens

[Steve Plucker]

Originally Posted by Charlie Stephens

Chris,

I assume you are working the DMV on your change from the engine number to the frame number. When I transferred my '31 RDPU back in 1972 the DMV would not register a vehicle by the number on the engine but rather insisted on installing their own number on a tag they attached to the door jam. There was no choice at that time.

Charlie Stephens

Charlie,

Things must have changed in 1982...After I moved form Walla Walla down to Bakersfield, the fellow DMV guy you wanted to go to was in Delano, CA...He regesterd my 1929 Standard Coupe by the engine number as was on the Washington regestration....Therefore no tag on the door jam.

Pluck

[Chris Haynes]

Originally Posted by Charlie Stephens

Chris,

I assume you are working the DMV on your change from the engine number to the frame number. When I transferred my '31 RDPU back in 1972 the DMV would not register a vehicle by the number on the engine but rather insisted on installing their own number on a tag they attached to the door jam. There was no choice at that time.

Charlie Stephens

There was a choice. You just didn't know how to do it.

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Probably best way , that's not the correct motor ,which was common to swap out engines back then and over the years , the best way is to look where the drivers side and frame off to retrieve it ,If I'm correct.