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Originally Posted by moore_rb
It's only a federal crime to forge (or misappropriate) a 17 digit, NHTSA coded VIN number.. and that 17 digit format did not become federal law until 1981, and component car companies have always been exempt from the law since it's inception... Which is why most component Cobras get a non-NHTSA compliant, state-issued number when they get registered.
The number stamped on this car, and is being called the "VIN" is an older Ford number format (this particular number came from a base 66 Mustang hardtop)
But, as long as the number on the car matches the number on the title document, most states are going to issue a transfer title without batting an eyelash...
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No, VIN swapping is illegal. You cannot take a VIN tag from '66 Ford Mustang and rivet it to another vehicle. A state may register it, but that doesn't make it legal. You can't rely on your local DMV employee to be an arbiter of what's legal or not. Once a VIN tag is removed from a car, then the ViN tag must be destroyed. And component cars don't have an exemption.