Posted By: 340SHORTY
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 02:07 AM
Look in the truck parts for sale section.. Theres some VIN rivets there..
Posted By: superwrench
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 02:25 AM
I know there are "purists" on this board, but in a case like yours, I would think that the reason you have mentioned should be enough for any normal person. I had to change out my dash frame on my '68 GTX...reason?...'cause the other one had been hacked up by the radio. I could have probably fixed it because it's hidden, but the replacement frame was so clean that I couldn't resist painting it up and using it. I didn't "document" anything....Whoever ends up buying it after me will just have to believe my story as to why the Rosette rivets have been changed.
OK...now I'm ready for the verbal abuse...!!! LOL
Posted By: CSK
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 03:47 AM
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Posted By: moparmarks
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 03:47 AM
It is not illegal to change out a dash frame. Car is retaining it's original vin tag.
Posted By: 7812845
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 05:11 AM
Thanks everyone, just don't want to do anything I shouldn't.
Posted By: therocks
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 01:23 PM
In Ohio its illegal.My kid wrecked the 96 Concord.Shop had to change the dash.The OSHP had to be notified and present when they changed the VIN from one dash to the other.Not saying that they arent changed without the verification .Rocky
Posted By: Rhinodart
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 05:10 PM
Lookiehere, I agree with Dayclona!
Posted By: RUNCHARGER
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 05:18 PM
Yep: Buy the rivets, change it, be happy.
10 million E-body owners can't be wrong.
Sheldon
Posted By: John_Kunkel
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 08:24 PM
The "el cheapo" way to get around the rivet prices is to remove the tag by grinding off the rivet butts under the dash, then gently punch out the rivets still attached to the tag.
Use a thin layer of epoxy to attach the tag/rivet heads to the new dash.
Posted By: rattler
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/20/13 11:17 PM
Or you just get the correct rivets from work.
Posted By: 7812845
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/21/13 03:26 AM
I've had the rivets for quite a while, not a problem and I didn't pay $65 for them, must have got them before they became like gold.
btw.. I'm keeping the old dash frame in case there's ever a question. It's pretty obvious that the tornado made it useless.
Posted By: rowin4
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/21/13 04:28 AM
Just make sure you rivet the plate on in the right direction.
Posted By: AARCONV
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/21/13 10:41 AM
If you buy the same rivets and install them inthe same postion as marked on the tag..you will not see a difference
Posted By: BDW
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/21/13 12:50 PM
Sounds like the only "right" thing to do at this point is to get a salvaged title for the car.
Posted By: JonC
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/21/13 11:28 PM
No I am not worried about at all. Cops in my area wouldn't know about the rivets. (I worked 40+ years as an EMT/Firefighter and know all of them personally). And there is no inspection in Maine on antique cars. It won't be for sale as long as I'm alive.
Posted By: JonC
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/22/13 12:47 AM
Like I said, I am not worried about LEO or inspections. I did not know about the rivets when I had the pad restored. But I would like to have known at the time and would have done it. I don't want to go thru removing the dash again to correct it (Age 66 and can't see good enough to do it now). If I happen to have to replace the windshield at some point I would probably replace them.
Posted By: jcc
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/22/13 01:51 AM
"(3) In all prosecutions under this section, possession by a person of a motor vehicle or of a mechanical device with the manufacturer's serial number or the engine or motor number removed, defaced, destroyed or altered or with a part bearing the number or numbers replaced by one on which the proper number does not appear, shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this section.
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Reads to me swapping an engine with another engine with different engine SN is technically a violation
"(4) If the identification of a motor vehicle or a mechanical device has been removed, defaced, or altered as provided in this section and the real identity of the motor vehicle or mechanical device cannot be determined, the motor vehicle or mechanical device shall be subject to confiscation by the state and shall be sold at public auction, put to official use by the government agency seizing the vehicle, or rendered scrap. If the items are confiscated from a licensed vehicle dealer, the dealer's license shall be revoked."
The key wording here is, how do you establish legally "real identity" if part is a number bearing part, has been removed?
"(5) A person shall not knowingly possess, buy, deliver, or offer to buy, sell, exchange, or give away any manufacturer's vehicle identification number plate, federal safety certification label, antitheft label, posident die stamps, secretary of state vehicle identification label, rosette rivet, or any facsimile thereof. This subsection does not apply to a motor vehicle manufacturer, a motor vehicle parts supplier under contract with a motor vehicle manufacturer, or a law enforcement officer in the official performance of his or her duties or to a motor vehicle in which a manufacturer's vehicle identification plate and each of the applicable labels listed in this subsection have been installed as prescribed by law. A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years, a fine of not more than $10,000.00, or both. If the person who violates this subsection is a licensed dealer or repair facility, its license shall be revoked."
Self explanatory, don't be caught with a VIN dash pad, rossett rivets, etc
"(6) A person shall not buy, receive, or obtain control of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part with the intent to sell or otherwise dispose of the motor vehicle or motor vehicle part knowing that an identification number of that motor vehicle or motor vehicle part has been removed, obliterated, tampered with, or altered. This subsection does not apply to a motor vehicle obtained from or at the direction of a law enforcement agency. A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 10 years, a fine of not more than $20,000.00, or both."
Don't let seller explain how he restored car by reattaching vin plate, etc
Confiscation by the enforcing department for their own department use in Mi is the most worrisome detail IMO, ie it provides significant incentive to interpret the rules to their benefit.
Posted By: moparmarks
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/22/13 03:37 AM
"the motor vehicle or mechanical device shall be subject to confiscation by the state and shall be sold at public auction"
So they take your car and then sell to some other poor sap?
Posted By: 62maxwgn
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/22/13 03:59 AM
To all who may have visions of changing a tag in the future for any reason,first just do it,second,don't post it on Moparts or any other forum !
Posted By: Boot
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/23/13 05:06 AM
Just an FYI, I was reading on another forum that now some of the collector car insurance companies are checking VINs and rivets now, as a means to deny a claim. Some are even checking engine #s against body numbers, and without CLEAR documentation as to where the donor came from, they can actually legally deny. They enter into contracts with the legal assumption that a collector or classic or special interest car is numbers matching, as it should be according to law. Be careful with numbers, and be sure to clearly document everything.
To the OP, I would take several pics of the damaged frame with vin attached before transferring to the new frame, and use the correct rivets just to be safe.
Posted By: 7812845
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/23/13 01:02 PM
My thoughts exactly,and since I'm the OP that's what I am going to do.
Posted By: kentj340
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/18/23 10:32 PM
The price of rosette rivets has crashed. Used to be $60 for a pair. Now $2.29 a pair plus $1.57 postage from China
here.You'll need to color them black though, since they are stainless. These are 1/8" diameter, but be careful - the $9.99 ones from Amazon are 1/4"
here. However, they say these are "NOS Dash Rosette Rivets Stainless Steel Fit for Ford Amc Chrysle Door Tag" with Chrysler misspelled. Not NOS. Also not black. Also won't fit dash, unless the drawing is incorrect and it's the head that's 1/4" and not the shaft.
But really, you can just make your own for free with a file in a few minutes if you don't have the factory originals. Factory original blackened aluminum rivet without the pulled steel shaft above, two home made ones below, also aluminum, blackened with magic marker, and the steel shaft. I'll be gluing the factory original heads and shafts back on my newly painted dash. Made the copies just for fun.
Posted By: cudaman1969
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/19/23 12:38 AM
The "el cheapo" way to get around the rivet prices is to remove the tag by grinding off the rivet butts under the dash, then gently punch out the rivets still attached to the tag.
Use a thin layer of epoxy to attach the tag/rivet heads to the new dash.
Now you did it, we have been trying to keep that secret for decades... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tsk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
And I thought I was the only one who thought of that.
Posted By: Jer
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/19/23 05:49 AM
The "el cheapo" way to get around the rivet prices is to remove the tag by grinding off the rivet butts under the dash, then gently punch out the rivets still attached to the tag.
Use a thin layer of epoxy to attach the tag/rivet heads to the new dash.
Now you did it, we have been trying to keep that secret for decades..
And I thought I was the only one who thought of that.
BE SURE to put a piece of tape across the rivets and tag; if you don't, you'll be looking all over for two very small rivet heads.
Posted By: kentj340
Re: Changing VIN plate to new dash frame - 10/19/23 06:42 PM
BTDT!
On a pea gravel textured patio slab.