okay fellas so i've searched and have tried getting a vin tag/body tag from the fellas that make them on here, i have searched all the threads and what not and i have messaged every guy on here that i have found thats supposed to make them and NO one has responded. i have money ready for a stamped vin tag and i need it now. dmv is charging me fees on my truck till i get my vin varified and its not helping that no one answers back. any of you fellas out there know anyone else i can get one from? im looking for them to stamp the numbers for me, i will give my vin (its clear) and is already in the DMV system now. im just waiting to get a tag so i can get it varified and get it registered. forgot to mention,it needs to be a generic tag, it cant say ford or anything since this is a studebaker pickup. they had a tag inside the cab but when i had it sandblasted the smart guy sandblasted the black paint over the factory tag so he pretty much destroyed it.
hate to use the "E"bay word, but 24 bucks will get you a studebaker blank vin plate. looks great on my 27....
yeah but i dotn realy have a way of stamping it. ill be honest i have tried stamping and i am no good at it. speacialy for something that has to look perfect if you know what i mean. my plate was large and had the engine size, weight,vin,axle info,all that stuff since it was a truck. does yours just say 'studebaker' on it? as long as its good enough for the varifier i dont car. but im no good at stamping.
Just a thought, would they o.k. engraving? If so a trophy shop will do it,that's what I did that in Conn.
Find a Studebaker tag so you can see the type/font that was used originally. Create the type of plate you want on your computer. Print the image in negative onto "blue" etching mask, then print one reversed not negative. Get two pieces of 1/4" steel and apply the mask, one for each piece. Etch the plates using the medium and following directions you can find on the internet. Buy the blank VIN plate. Line up the pos/neg die plates on each side of the blank VIN plate, install in a vise, and crank it shut. Open and remove the plates. Open the dies, exposing your newly minted Studebaker VIN plate. Or you can keep complaining that nobody on the HAMB will help you...
Ian only a FEDERAL offense, be out early with good behavior over crowding you know that kinda thing............
no bulldog they were not raised letters. they were indented. but the plate is very large,and had black paint in all the areas besides the vin, and all of that was sandblasted off, so i dont want to use that plate. but thanks both of you for the tip about a trophy shop, i didnt even think about that. i wonder if they would be hesitant to do something like that? i guess ordering one from ebay as teh gentlman above mentioned and taking it to a shop.
rdstr, that sounds a bit over my head.also i have the original plate. it looks so crude that it looks fake now. and it IS the original plate.
thats what im talking about bulldog, i dont have the ***le but i do have the vin and proof from dmv that its clean and all of that. my paper work is almost done. i just have to have a vin plate so i can get a varify. come on guys that thinks its a crime...its my old grand dads truck that he owned for years and left it to rot, he gave it to me so i could bring it back. is that so bad?
It may not help your cause but it looks like you intend to do the same thing I intend to do. I have the old painted over and bent up plate off my truck and have bought a new reproduction plate that I will stamp and put on the truck. Then I will keep the old plate in the folder with my registration and insurance papers just in case I ever need to do some explaining. The other option is to put the old plate back on and paint over it when you paint the truck and call it good. I don't think anyone inspecting the truck would give a rip if it was painted over as long as it had the original info and serial number stamped in it. Back when these trucks were just vehicles that you used to haul stuff with no one really cared much if the tags got painted over when they had the trucks repainted. I think mine has about five coats of paint on it.
mr48. studebaker stamped my engine number in it. not the vin. the vin is whats on file. so my tag is no good to me. and i honestly tossed the old engine out years ago that had the number. it was s**** and i didnt know about the numbers and such till a few months ago. this truck WAS my grandfathers tho. its been in the family since 78 i think. i think i shall buy a studebaker blank on epay and take it to a trophy shop as the others mentioned. i didnt even think about a trophy shop honestly till they mentioned it.
cant seem to find a studebaker blank tag on ebay. italianrich-do you have a name or any info on finding it?
If you have the original tag, I don't understand why you need another. If there's a tag riveted to the body with the right number on it, who cares if it's crude looking? Factory is factory.
Rusty, read number 14, the tag had the engine number, and now the engine is gone. Also, DMV has a " serial number " on file for it and he wants to stick with that, can't blame him there. He's doing the right thing by keeping with whatevers on file, hope that helps my friend, BDM
because its the engine number. studbaker never put the vin on. im being honest. i think its stupid but the trucks real vin is not on it. the truck has been completly torn down and media blasted top to bottom. it does not have the real vin on it. studebaker stamped the engien number in the tag. i have talked to studebaker guys and they confirm this. my problem is my original engine was pretty much junk so i s****ed it. now i have my paper work almost done with its real vin. so i have to put that number back on it. this truck was in the family for a long time. mygrandfather let it sit after the engien seized and just left it. i showed interest so he said i could have it. now all i need is a tag with the right number to varify. the truck does not run since its being completely re-build. and they are starting to add fees now that my truck is in the system but is not registered cause i need my vin varified. they put it in the system from the old temp window tag it had, but as i said its not its vin its its engien number and without the engine, that number wont work.
thats exactly what i mean, bulldog understands what i mean. since its in the system with its vin NOT the engine number thats on my old tag, i want to keep with the number thats in the system. pluss its the actual vin of the truck, and i dont have to weight it since on my old papers the real vin had a weight on it.
Isn't that what California bagged Coddington for. I'll be the first to admit I've used "made up" Vin tags before but now that DMV's are getting smarter I won't do it again. It's a felony to reproduce Vin tags. I don't want to become a bad mans boyfriend in the Department of Corrections. Why not do it the legal way through the DMV?
No stamped VIN on the frame? I don't have a book covering Stude trucks but I have one for the cars. If the state has a number on file it must be on that truck someplace, otherwise where did it come from?
Boyd was popped for using out of state VINs for non existant cars and placing them on new builds IIRC
I believe this guy was selling them: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ID-P...r_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item45f717e72f
thanks to the guys that are giving me info and links and such, fellas i apreaciate that. rustynewyorker. i said there is no other number on the truck. i stated this truck has been media blasted so well it looked like it was primer. every nook. it was striped to the bare frame. the only possibility of were it could have been is the front engine or ****** crossmember, those i cut out and s****ped many years ago. the rails and body are 100% original and i looked it over when i had it down to just the frame rails, i have talke to studebaker folk and they say the same. all they had was an engine number and the number on the tag wich is the same. so again there is no frame number.
reverse stamps are available - i have a set in the garage. if you are interested i will see if the name of the manu is on the box.
Here is a blank tag...http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VERY...ptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories
i always wondered this, if your not changing the number what would the charge be? is it illegal to add your vin number to other parts of your car for security reasons like stamping the rear, engine, body, or a different part of the ch***is? if you did it is it illegal? i don't think so.
I don't understand why your paperwork has a different number, then. The tag number is what should be on the ***le. How much different are the numbers? Is there a chance someone mixed up the paperwork at some past point with another Stude truck? I missed what year yours is, but I have a couple Stude tags right here on the shelf and the numbers are stamped in or in the case of this one tag it looks more like it's engraved. I've forgotten what this tag came off from but I think maybe it's from a Lark because of the green paint on it; it's very plain, square, and was spot-welded on. My '50 pickup and my buddy's '51 ragtop have rectangular tags and I have a couple more of those here someplace. The numbers are fairly tall for a VIN/serial tag, I don't have something to measure with right in front of me but they're twice as tall as the top end part of a Paper Mate ball point pen (the skinny section of the barrel the cap fits on).
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