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Originally Posted by msmaron
Actually your wrong, there is not stamp that the DMV places on the car at anytime, under the body or on one of their plates, some do know where to find it and some don't and in CA, if you get the right person at the DMV they will accept the number in a different location and i know that from experiance, and if i am also pretty sure, your local AAA will also verify the number.
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Mark,
OK, I am wrong. Now another question. Can you explain the plate attached to the door jam of my '31 RDPU (see photo, note numbers covered by tape)? There is a similar one on the frame under the car but I didn't want to crawl under to photograph it. I am sure my memory is just failing but I thought I remembered the DMV (using the California Highway Patrol as their agent) attaching these plates and telling me that California no longer registered vehicles by their motor number. This was in the early seventies. I agree that if you get the right person they will accept the number in a different location (I have even heard of them accepting body numbers as VIN numbers but let's not go there), my concern is if you get the wrong person (the one that knows where the number should be) you could be in a lot of trouble.
Charlie Stephens