Ebay truck - potential buyers cautioned to do due diligence

[Vintage Windmills]

Originally Posted by leddzepp

It is illegal to sell or possess VIN rivets, for obvious reasons. Yet when they come up for sale here on the board people line up around the block to buy them. Here is just one example: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=442226. Six pages of sales before it was locked down by admin.

I wonder how many of those rivets actually ended up being used to affix a VIN tag to the cab it was originally removed from?

Even with the "correct" rivets in place you would have no idea if there had been a cab swap, and the seller can easily hide it.

Good point. All the more reason to verify the spid, frame, and plate rivets all match. Thats more important to me than original never replaced rosette rivets holding a vin plate that doesnt match the frame. There are plenty of cab swaps with the rivets left in place.