[BMWCSRegistry] [BMWCS Registry] Dilemma

[Art Wegweiser]

David,
Ilse (my 1972 CSi) has her VIN in three places.

A rather small VIN tag is visible from outside under the windscreen 
gasket on the extreme left  (driver side) bottom.

The VIN is also stamped into the painted sheet metal panel between 
the wind screen wiper motor and the engine compartment. I never 
noticed it was there until I replaced the dried up rubber gasket 
which had partially obscured it. This might be the real one?

A metal 4 X 1.75 in tag is also riveted/screwed to the wall on right 
side of the wiper motor area.   All three agree down to the last 
digit.

Not that I would encourage an illegal act, but the riveted tag may be 
available as a blank or partial blank.  The other one I have has 
"Bayerische Moteren Werke A.G.",  "BMW 3.0 CS ", and some vehicle 
weight numbers in Kg printed in grey and black. However the Fahrgest 
nr (VIN) space is simply punched in with a small die.

Given the similarity of only the last VIN number, looks like a 
clerical error. A dyslexic`bureaucrat read the 6 as a 9?  Mobile 
Tradition may possibly answer the question.
I'll try to search our archives and see if ether or both of these 
numbers show up.

Keep swinging at it.
Art


At 3:19 PM -0600 6/2/07, David Fitelson wrote:
>
>
>A year ago I bought a very nicely restored, re-engined (by Bill Merriken) 
>5-speed 2800CS.  What I didn't do is check the under-hood vin 
>tag against the vin# on the seller's title.  They don't match!
>
>All the documentation I've been able to dig up (going back to a 1998 
>Calfornia title) shows the vin# to be 2280389, but the car tag reads 
>2280386.
>
>Colorado (where I bought the car) "verified" that the vin# is 
>2280389, but New Mexico, where I live, is having none of it.
>
>Anyone know what I should do now?
>
>David


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