'Hypothetical' id tag question.

[manxdavid]

Ok, so a guy's bought a Manx buggy and finds out through a chance meeting with the guy who used to mold authorized Manx kits in the UK that it's definitely an genuine Meyers Manx that's been seperated from its tag at some time. The molder knows what the kit's tag number was as it's the only one he ever molded in that color and he's also sure that Bruce was payed his royalty for the kit, he has documentary evidence of this.

The owner wants to put a tag on the body with its original number on but if he aproached Bruce and Winnie they'd probably issue it with an authorization kit and one of the new sequence of id numbers and anyway he doesn't want to spend the $$$ to get it authorized when he KNOWS it's authentic and anyway, he knows that they're busy people so doesn't want to bother them with something so trivial.

So here's the question. Would it be wrong of the owner to just buy a blank repro tag plate off eBay, stamp the car's number on it and fit it to his car?

Jus' askin'...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Typenschild-b ... 3f4fa712e9

[RedBaronofRedBud]

I would call Winnie first and tell her the situation. I have a feeling that they may reissue a tag with your original number, but it may not be free.

[manxdavid]

It's not my car. That's what I recommended that he do but it's up to him really.

[jsturtlebuggy]

Who has the original tag that is not on the body?
What happens when the original tag shows up, maybe on another body?

[manxdavid]

Who has the original tag that is not on the body?
What happens when the original tag shows up, maybe on another body?

No idea. It's been gone for 13+ years now and doesn't appear to have been wrongly fitted to another kit. The car's also changed hands a few times since then.