talk about 'semantics', Cletis! actually you've shown me to be Right - you're ignoring this part: "
Beginning with the 1956 model motor vehicles, the serial number of the body or frame is used as the principal means of identification and shall be known as the "vehicle identification number". The words "permanent identification number" and "serial number" are sometimes used to refer to the official vehicle identification number."
regardless of capitalization or abbreviation conventions, what I'm talking about is what happens on this site, not federal law, and we don't deal w/ 81 or newer vehicles, nor exclusively w/ Texas titles - as I pointed out, AZ was printing title forms before 69 that specifically listed "Vehicle Id No's"
there has always been a
"Vehicle Identification Number" given by the mfgr to identify the specific vehicle, abbreviate it anyway you want - there has been different ways the vehicle/body/engine numbers have been used by various state DMV's, but when someone comes on here and asks about problems with their VIN, the answer is never "these ol trucks didn't have VIN's" or "there was no such thing as a VIN back then"
and I'll continue to object to that answer when it occurs, unless you make it "there's no VIN, just a vin"
Magilla - I doubt engine numbers were used on titles anywhere as late as 63, that convention was mostly pre-1950's everywhere, but the engine number will identify the year of the engine
Bill
