Replica or real? [help request from Switzerland and Italy]

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

The VIN is LAC017? CA won't register/issue a VIN# that short. My CA VIN# uses the Kirkham issued chassis#, which is 11 characters. So, the VIN number should be at least 11 characters long, if not longer.

So you can't register a 60's CSX car (CSXxxxx...7 characters)? Many cars had short VINs before the WMI 17 digit VIN became the rule in 1981.

And at one time NY couldn't handle a VIN over 15 digits! In the late 70s we sold Brougham motor homes that had an 18 digit VIN....NY could only put 15 on the registration. Solution? They took 3 digits off the end, the three unit number digits! Resulting in several units having the same title/registration VIN printed! Gotta love the DMV......................

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

So you can't register a 60's CSX car (CSXxxxx...7 characters)? Many cars had short VINs before the WMI 17 digit VIN became the rule in 1981.

And at one time NY couldn't handle a VIN over 15 digits! In the late 70s we sold Brougham motor homes that had an 18 digit VIN....NY could only put 15 on the registration. Solution? They took 3 digits off the end, the three unit number digits! Resulting in several units having the same title/registration VIN printed! Gotta love the DMV......................

Are we talking about an original 1960's era Cobra here? Uh, no. Obviously the OP's car is not a 1960's original CSX. I don't have any clue what happened at the DMV that long ago or how they're registered today in CA's computers.

So far, we have two CA owners of replicas built more recently that have 9 characters. Anyone with shorter VIN's? My DMV representative and her manager had some difficulty making mine (11 characters) work. And hadn't seen anything that short before.