Engine stamping
- Thread starter DickCrabtree
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Mitch//pa
BANNED
Carl
Maybe since your experienced the authorities will house you in the license plate stamping dept wing of the penitentiary.
beats hard labor on a chain gang
Fred K-OR
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Steve has offered you a good solution if you want to re-stamp. They have quality items and service.
Cool Hand Lurker
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By stamping the correct number on the blank block you are not altering anything, you are not changing anything, you are not removing anything, you are not committing any fraud, you are simply putting the correct number on a replacement part of your vehicle that nobody has claimed is stolen. After it is done there is NO evidence of any crime. If the arresting officer cannot provide proof of a crime and brings it before the judge anyway, the judge will throw it out of court.
Don't create problems that are not there. Stamp the numbers!
Don't create problems that are not there. Stamp the numbers!
Charlie Stephens
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I assume you have installed the new engine in the car and are driving it. A police officer stops you for a missing tail light. You explain that the car only came from the factory with one and he says ok. Then he asks you for your registration and looks through the window to see the VIN. You tell him that it is not in that location but you cannot show him where it is to verify the car on the registration is the car in front of him since you haven't stamped the block. He calls the tow truck and the car is impounded. Or maybe you have an accident and the insurance agent come out and wants to verify the car in the accident is the one his company insured, guess what? Then maybe I just worry too much.
Charlie Stephens
Mike V. Florida
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Just trying to keep the members here informed. Problems only arise when the vehicle is so far from the look and driveability of the original as to stick out that the stampings are just a way to "cheat" the government of their taxes.
Here is a famous case; http://www.hotrod.com/news/0501kc-special-vehicle-registration/
Mike V. Florida
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This is true assuming that you already had a valid title that has that number. I would not want to be in front a judge and tell him, "yea judge, the family had this old car so I found a title and just wanted it to match the car so I stamped the block."
hardtimes
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Hey Lurker,
Wow, that is good !!
I'm going to copy this and plasticote it and tape a copy in my roadster....next to the location where I stamped my #s..to show if questioned
!You ever hear of a guy named Murphy
?I'm guessing that you are a transplant for the left coast..no
Shoot, out here your car IS IMPOUNDED for exhibition of speed (racing), imagine what 'they' would/could do for 'suspicion/evidence' of fraud !!
hardtimes
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I'm thinking that there was no DMV (just the thot brings a
) ...back in the day('30s).Also think that the factory records of those days (thankfully)are the only records of engine #s, and that was for company uses ?
Chris Haynes
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It is illegal to alter or deface a manufacturers serial number. I see no problem with applying one.
Cool Hand Lurker
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I have obtained titles where there were none probably ten times, maybe more. I look at the number on an available motor or one that is in the car and then go to the local licensing agent and ask them to check their computer to see if there is a title issued to a Model A with that number. If there is, then I move on to another engine. When I find one where there is no title registered in Minnesota then I use that engine or if it is trash then I use the number.
It isn't hurting anybody.
My position is that the motor is not the vehicle, the motor becomes a part of a vehicle when it is installed and the complete car comes off the assembly line.
And I don't care what they do in California. That state has cost the country HUGE with it's wacko laws, especially with the environment and vehicle emissions.
It isn't hurting anybody.
My position is that the motor is not the vehicle, the motor becomes a part of a vehicle when it is installed and the complete car comes off the assembly line.
And I don't care what they do in California. That state has cost the country HUGE with it's wacko laws, especially with the environment and vehicle emissions.
Charlie Stephens
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It is my understanding based on what I have read that people were "required" to notify DMV of the new engine number. Of course I am sure that this was frequently not done and may not have been the practice in all states. I imagine there was a lot of restamping.
Charlie Stephens