Anybody ever have a frame re-stamped with matching numbers?

LuckyStar64

LuckyStar64

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This is mostly for vintage guys who restore bikes. I'm wondering if anybody has ever had vin numbers welded over, ground down, and re-stamped somehow?

I THINK the VIN is stamped on the head tube before it's actually formed when it's a flat piece of metal. If the frame is steel, I'm thinking that the tube would have to be supported to keep it from collapsing to out of round if it has to withstand enough force to re stamp numbers?

I know this is a popular practice when restoring hot rods, but never heard of doing it with bikes? Anybody know anything about it? --L^64
 
In the late 70's early 80's when we replaced a frame on a crashed street
bike, Yamaha and Suzuki sent frames with no numbers. We punched
the number from the frame we took off onto the new one. No backup
as you suggest required. Grinding off numbers might make this a different
scenario.
 
I'd weld over the old numbers, and grind the weld smooth so it would basically be a frame w/o numbers. I don't want to do a plate because it's not original, and it would be incredibly easy to just take off in the event the bike was stolen. I want it just as original.
 
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