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Old 09-06-2013, 03:09 PM
Pooka Pooka is offline
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Originally Posted by KCM View Post
Hate to break it to you, but the actual "VIN" plate is attached the same way. I also think it was a bad idea to attach it to the radiator support because if you get into a front end collision, guess what is one of the first parts to get bent up. Maybe that is why the number was also stamped into the frame rail. Of course I also think it is stupid that some newer cars put the VIN & info sticker on the driver's door since that is also a part that is likely to get hit in an accident.
Oh, I know. But the VIN is stamped into the car in other areas, so I have always looked at the 'original' vin as just something to start with.

An interesting VIN story.... When Tim McVeigh blew up the building in Oklahoma City he had tried to remove all the VIN numbers from the truck he rented. He did not know that the VIN was also stamped inside the real axle housing and that the only way to get at it was to cut the housing apart.
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