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Correct on all above. Now it the paper title vi# matches the frame vi#, and you just need some correct door Warranty Plate and B pillar Safety Certification white sticker. Marti-Auto can help you with that. https://www.martiauto.com/tags.cfm
So the F15..... door tag matched the registration or title? If it does, and if the frame is something else, like a F250, you maybe bought a basket case. If you ever do go to sell it and they know where to look and if they find the real vin number ...... it might be a mess to straighten out.
truck was clearly re registered by the door tag as an f150 4x2 79. Witch is unfortunate because its seems to be a 76 f250 4x4 custom highboy. As for resale, im not too worried about that, ive already searched for the 2 frame vins with no luck so the door vin might be my only way to register it (right or wrong) its all ive got for reference right now.
I would dig deep and get busy with the wire wheel grinder and find the actual frame vin. Dig deep and find both, I sent you pics of their location. And then get the proper door/ b pillar repop tags from Marti Auto and then title it properly. Followed by the proper insurance or letting your insurance company know.
Why do all that, since it is registered as a 2wd F150 and it is a 76 F250 4wd, what is your insurance company insuring or thinking they are insuring? The cost to insure a 2wd versus a 4wd might be that much. But God forbid get in a wreck and the insurance company could be asking ALOT of questions about why it was "registered" as a 2wd F150 versus what is actually is. Worse case they might drop you or REAl worse case they NOT cover you in an accident. We all know that they work hard to NOT pay up come time to pay up and cover you.
Buying (getting the what its worth totaled amount) will be different in a 2wd versus 4wd, and or repairing a 2wd versus 4wd can be a big difference.
Could be whom ever put it together ground the frame numbers off, or filled and sanded them? I'd be surprised but there's been plenty time for it to have been done and grown patina hiding the deed? I thought I had a description of places to look, but not so. I do vaguely recall some tags attached with screws, like on the cowl on passenger side or under bed behind the driver,
Do you have an engine in it, what is it if so? Might help with the years. Intakes and blocks have casting and build dates coded too.
Those tags attached to the cowl and or the front of the bed are called "Buck" tags, and are just assembly line info tags. No help in an HARD vin conformation, yes sometime they have a vin and some time not. I am looking for the pic I have of the bed buck tag location, just can't locate it.
Could be whom ever put it together ground the frame numbers off, or filled and sanded them? I'd be surprised but there's been plenty time for it to have been done and grown patina hiding the deed? I thought I had a description of places to look, but not so. I do vaguely recall some tags attached with screws, like on the cowl on passenger side or under bed behind the driver,
Do you have an engine in it, what is it if so? Might help with the years. Intakes and blocks have casting and build dates coded too.
i believe its a 360 fe putting at at '76 if the motor is origional to the frame bucause it has front disc breaks and a 360.
I've read over the thread, but it's more accurate to say "skimmed" than read.
It strikes me this is a poorly documented, scabbed together truck from parts from different trucks from different model years. What it is titled as does not match with what the frame is, or many of the parts.
The OP won't like this, but essentially this is vehicle fraud. Different states have different approaches to this problem, but I believe the OP should get the situation corrected before spending any money on the truck. This might include going back to the seller and saying he/she misrepresented the truck, that there is fraud involved, and they need to buy it back. Your leverage is reporting the seller to the state DMV.
Lots of these trucks have been put together with parts from various vehicles, but the VIN listed on the title MUST match the frame VIN, and in this case it doesn't. That's a major problem. If someone has removed the stamped VIN number from the frame, that suggests the frame came from a stolen truck. If the DMV believes that, it is no stretch at all to think they would impound the vehicle.
Yeah, you are right. Thought sure crossed my mind when he could not find a frame number. If someone was to look at it to maybe buy it, if they didn't just fall off the boat, they are gonna look for the frame vin up beside the engine at least .... though they may just walk away before looking under the floor. If was me and I was suspicious road side at 2AM, I'd have called a DMV agent armed with thier book of confidential vin locations. Could be parts of a truck stolen in 1981 for what anyone knows. A Deputy biuddy had his Dad's mid '70s Chevrolet that was like new stolen one night in the '90s, it's still active in the computer wanted files. I once recovered a Corvette stolen back in the '70s, it went to the insurance company that had paid a claim on it. Could not show that "that" driver stole it, so he just lost the car.
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