08-31-2014, 11:01 PM
Here in the states there still is VIN fraud especially with salvaged vehicles or when people build a bike out of a couple of trashed ones. There of course, is a national crime database, NCIC, and the insurance database, NICB, where stolen vehicles are entered by VIN. I have seen instances where the stolen vehicle information has sometimes been automatically purged from the system after many years. So, if you play with stolen motorcycles that are over say, 25 years old, you could have quite a business making expensive classic bikes.
It's harder to do with cars because there are a few additional hidden and not easily accessible places where the manufacturer stamps the VIN, but I'd guess not easy to do on an open frame architecture like a motorcycle.
Each state's titling and registration procedures vary unfortunately. A couple of states have reputations of being easy to title a vehicle when someone has no existing paperwork. Others make you go thru a police inspection to make certain you didn't attach a good VIN to a stolen bike, or even welded a frame piece with VIN plate intact onto a stolen bike that has had that frame piece removed.
It's harder to do with cars because there are a few additional hidden and not easily accessible places where the manufacturer stamps the VIN, but I'd guess not easy to do on an open frame architecture like a motorcycle.
Each state's titling and registration procedures vary unfortunately. A couple of states have reputations of being easy to title a vehicle when someone has no existing paperwork. Others make you go thru a police inspection to make certain you didn't attach a good VIN to a stolen bike, or even welded a frame piece with VIN plate intact onto a stolen bike that has had that frame piece removed.