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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 06:51 AM
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i was talking to a hd mech who worked for a dealership and he saw the dealer stamping a heap of vin plates FLH and attaching them to fx frames as well as FLH frames in the 70s
Guy is Full if ****
No VIN plate on a Harley...VIN is stamped Directly into Frame, top right downtube! That "sticker" is just for some Kinda "feel good" crap..
BTW...Just as Illegal for a Dealership to "Fake" a VIN, as anyone else... Only the Factory can Legally stamp a VIN
 

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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Racepres
Guy is Full if ****
No VIN plate on a Harley...VIN is stamped Directly into Frame, top right downtube! That "sticker" is just for some Kinda "feel good" crap..
BTW...Just as Illegal for a Dealership to "Fake" a VIN, as anyone else... Only the Factory can Legally stamp a VIN
well whats the plate called that is stamped flh and year of manufacture 1980 and stamped VIN. - number riveted to the down tube of my 80 fx frame i have no sticker on the frame
 

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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 05:12 PM
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bobs not full of **** knows harleys back to front been around them since the 70s
 
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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 05:39 PM
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If this VIN tag stuff was being done in Australia may be an import thing. I sure don't know. Bob is going to kick someones *** for saying he is full of ****.
 
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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 05:41 PM
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it is probably an Australian requirement,... I Know that Germany demand a VIN plate riveted to pre 1970 Harleys,
some people here forget that there are other countries out there other than Southern Canada
 
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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 07:07 PM
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If this VIN tag stuff was being done in Australia may be an import thing. I sure don't know. Bob is going to kick someones *** for saying he is full of ****.
you bet he would. and yes its a australian bike
 
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Originally Posted by john lee
bobs not full of **** knows harleys back to front been around them since the 70s
And he is Probably the Only One..huh??
IDK how they do **** in Foreign Countries.. I know most of them don't even allow Firearms...so...Too Backward for Me..
If that is how they do it down under...it is Probably because they don't Trust the MoCo...I guess!!

BTW... Love the "rivet" idea..after all... No Can Cheat that System!!!
 

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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 12:55 PM
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Even with the Ausie vin plate added, the factory stamp tells the true story e.g. 2F=1200 fxs 2A=1200 flh
 
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They may not have many guns in Australia, but they got these. LOL

 

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Old Aug 22, 2025 | 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by john lee
i was talking to a hd mech who worked for a dealership and he saw the dealer stamping a heap of vin plates FLH and attaching them to fx frames as well as FLH frames in the 70s
We’ve been over this alleged confusion between FLH/FX with you several times before. Not just on this forum but also on HTT. And previously we’ve also discussed with you some of the differences between certain-year frames for the FL-series and FX-series.

Regarding no sticker on your frame, that is another thing we’ve discussed before. Instead of a sticker you’ve said you have a blue riveted-on plate and it’s visible in your photos but we can’t read it which is why we’ve asked you repeatedly to post a close-up. But you never did.

At times you call your bike a Low Rider but you also told us the VIN on your frame and engine begin with 3G and that the alleged VIN plate says 1980 FLH. We’ve tried several times to help you sort that out but you never post the photos we ask for. You said your VIN was 93+++ and I explained why it may be so high but that I’d like to see photos. And I’m not the only person who asked you for VIN photos in one thread or another.

Other things you’ve been advised to check include crankcase production numbers, additional original component identifying numbers on the lower triple clamp and trans case, extra ID at the rear of both crankcases and the date code on the frame.

In January 2023 you said you’d written to H-D in the US but when I later asked about their response you said you never got a reply so I suggested you ring them. Did you ring H-D?

On some occasions you’ve mentioned not only a frame VIN plate but also a compliance plate. On your bike are those two things one and the same?

I remember Australian Harley dealers having a problem with compliance plates. My first H-D was supposed to be a new 76 Super Glide. In those days here in Perth there were three shops distributing H-Ds and at one of them I put a deposit on the new bike which would be ordered from a dealer over east. I don’t think it was coming from Queensland so it may have been coming from a dealer in either NSW or Victoria but later I was told there was a holdup because the dealer couldn’t get compliance plates for the new models. I can’t remember exactly what constituted one of those compliance plates and I don’t remember what the alleged problem with the bikes was but the holdup continued for some time. While I was waiting I found out that one of the other three Perth shops had a used 1974 E-Glide for sale and because the three shops were all distributors I had my deposit transferred to the shop selling the E-Glide and I bought it. That was in April 76.

But getting back to your bike, and as I’ve said on other occasions, you’re not going to get anywhere with this unless you post the photos and info we’ve asked for and/or unless you contact H-D.
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