VIN replacement tag on utility trailer
I recently bought a 5x10 utility trailer from a private seller, honest guy, likely wasn't aware of a tongue repair or repaint...not sure, but I need to get a replacement vin plate. I have the selle...
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mike-s wrote:bob_nestor wrote:Look at something you didn't bother to provide a link to? No, I didn't. Many typewriters didn't have a separate glyph for the numeral "1", it was common to use a lower case "l" or, less commonly, an uppercase "I" in its stead. It may be expecting a bit much, but when the character is meant to be a one, a scanning result of ell or eye is a mis-scan.
The "IC9" portion is typed.
In any case, the fact remains, no WMIs start with the letter I, and many trailer manufacturers do have WCIs which do start with 1C9, which falls in the range for USA WMIs. (NHTSA, ibid)
Oh good grief! First off, not all PDF files are scanned files, an assumption you obviously made. PDFs can be generated by other means, like an export/save from Word. Secondly I provided the Google search string "IC9 trailer vin" so people could do their own searches. Different search engines will come up with different hits, but here are a few hits if you're interested:
An obviously scanned file:
Custom Built Trailers
InstaVIN Resource Center
A file that was probably not scanned but computer generated:
Country Trailers
