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Originally Posted by 1977CamaroZ28
Interesting photo of the vin plate! I never saw one of those. You still have the VIN number stamped in the front frame under the pop up driver light too?? In this place is my VIN number...
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Hey folks, allow me to add some German knowledge. what you see there is a standard German VIN plate. These are required on any car in addition to a VIN being stamped into the frame. So the VIN stamping as we know it is (most likely) still there AND there is the aluminum tag.
The plate gives some additional information such as manufacturer and model name, maximum load capacity, etc.
If the car comes without you have to add one, so did I on my Mark III and of course my ZR-1.
It is not actually checked by anyone. It's a useless piece of German bureaucracy. Only during our mandatory bi-annual federal inspection they make sure it's there.
I'm not too sure whether or not newer cars still have it. But it's definitely needed on older cars.