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Re: Fake fender tags
[Re: 69CoronetRT]
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03/31/14 10:26 PM
03/31/14 10:26 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 21,525
N.E. OHIO, USA
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 21,525
N.E. OHIO, USA
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.... thousands of pages? get at 'er, it's not like we will use up the internet...seems to me this would be good info to have available.
Welllll.....
consider what was coded, when it was coded during the year and even where something was coded on the tag changed. Then take that times the number of plants in production times three just to cover early, mid and late production then take that times the number of years you want to cover.
Consider you will have to at least discuss the different tag layouts used during those years as context and which plants used them.
You'll have to touch on what SO/VON numbers are and put them in context and discuss which other factors on the tag triggered a certain VON.
You'll have to talk about fonts, screws, rivets and paper clips, bent or unbent, painted or not painted, punches and stamps.
You'll have to find people well versed in each year and plant under consideration and get their input. You'll have to review thousands of original tags from each plant to establish baseline differences then, maybe, find fake tags you can use for comparison.
A 1,000 pages might be a good start to a very boring topic that, in the end, only helps fake tag makers make better fake tags.
And there you have the short or "Readers Digest" version of how to spot a fake fender tag. Now if only we could do the same for a Monroney Label/Window Sticker which should hold more of the truth of how the car left the assembly plant than any fender tag or broadcast sheet but few question it or the reproduction of one 
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