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WHITT

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3. Easy As Pie

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 16, 2021, 09:15 AM

Dec 2021

There's an algorithm for VINs with a check digit. You just choose a number above the anticipated production run, and make a new VIN plate. It won't conflict with any original units and won't come back as stolen.

Of course, the original VIN is still on the firewall, the sub-frame, and some other interesting places, but that's a problem for the sucker who buys it.

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