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Offline coater87

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American motorcycle paperwork
« on: 29.11. 2022 22:58 »
My bike has a clean title issued by ths state of Wisconsin. The engine numbers are used ss the identifier, not the frame numbers.

 Is this normal here for our bikes?

 I have been kicking around building up a bike from spare parts, but I  have to figure out how to source a title.

 Lee

 
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Offline muskrat

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Re: American motorcycle paperwork
« Reply #1 on: 29.11. 2022 23:37 »
G'day Lee
Down here it's the frame number. Over there I thought it was the engine number as for many years HD's didn't have a frame number.
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Re: American motorcycle paperwork
« Reply #2 on: 30.11. 2022 02:03 »
My '55 A10 has been registered by engine number since new in California. My '57  A7 had a questionable overstamp on the frame when it showed up here (several years ago now) after purchase on eBay. I called the Illinois Secretary of State's office to ask if I would have trouble registering it based on the confirmed bill-of-sale and the frame stamp. They offered to send someone to look at it. Two plain-clothes SoS police showed up a couple of days later. They loved the bike and decided the frame number was not a problem. I got a letter blessing the registration.

Lee, 10 months!

Richard L.
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