Repro vin plates?

[Uncle-Pekka]

...what-you-call, the oval plates on the firewall in engine bay.

Aluminium, have once been red color etched.

The ones in my car are badly oxidized, hardly any of original surface left.

I have not seen these reproduced, are they?

A wild idea I got: Newsprint houses do the print offset plates on aluminium sheets. The process is quite fast & easy. They take "a photocopy" of the page, place the negative on the al.plate, which has photosensitive coating. Its been exposed to strong UV for 10-20 sec., then run throught an acid bath. The exposed areas come off, rest carry color.

Could be a possible method to reproduce the badges for our cars?

Does anyone have really well preserved ones on their cars to post a HQ photo?

/Pekka

[claybill]

pekka there are lots of them arund...good looking used one is usually 10 usd.

bill

[PatS....]

Try Vintage Power Wagons for Dodge.

[BobT-47P15]

Those oval red plates are more of a manufacturer I D plate....not a VIN.

See them on ebay on occasion.

[40deluxe]

I got mine from Will Knudsen, Wyandotte, MI. wknudsen402@aol.com. He also has the smaller body number tag and the serial number tags