[DML] Re: Dash & Door VIN plates (was: Does anyone else have one of these?)

["cbl1739" <cbl302@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That brings up another question,were the vin plates affixed,BEFORE 
the body joined the frame-Hense- no vins on the frames,ramdon 
frames/drivetrains met/joined onto Vin'ed Black bodies,also Why was 
my "ex" Delorean picked to have that rare vin tag(vin 570),or was 
mine just the last one with one of those tags. 
cbl



In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "James Espey" <james@xxxx> wrote:
>
> I refrained from responding at that time because there was so much
> else going on here with the holidays and my move to a new home. Now
> that the dust has settled...
> 
> We don't have any blank dash VIN plates, period. We don't have the
> machine to stamp the numbers on VIN plates, dash or door.
> 
> The original part number for the dash VIN plate was 106113 and was
> aluminum with black logo as the one you have. According to the 
drawing for that part number, Engineering Change 2318 deleted the logo and 2533 deleted all the text.

> I've never seen a blank VIN plate like Patrick's, and only seen
> imprinted ones on a very small handful of very early cars. Last year
> we had VIN 575 here for service and it had a plain black dash VIN 
plate.
> 
> James Espey
> DeLorean Motor Company (Texas)




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