Hi, Could someone please tell me exactly where the frame number on a 1958 a10 is? Can't find it!
I suggest you remove the paint where it might be. Sometimes stamps can be quite shallow and hence accidentally covered up by paint, sometimes of course they also are shallow and/or illegible because someone sanded or ground them so they DID'NT show through paint
......I've just registered one of those in nz and was quite nervous about the number being pretty illegible but, in the end, no one was that bothered. The number (sequence) bit was reasonably clear, but not the ZB31 bit.
If my bike had been stolen at some point in its life it was over 35 years ago as that's how long the PO had it.
I'm afraid in nz we are not so careful about frame numbers, if there was a frame without a number here, I've been emphatically told it would get one put on! There is normally no one involved in the re registering process who would want to query the originality of a frame stamping
even if they had the skill to recognise a forged one.
Also if dealers were supposed to restamp frames, did BSA issue them with the correct factory stamps? Or did they use whatever stamps they had in the workshop? Or are the stamps (eg font) readily available even nowadays?
I know this is a contentious subject but I reckon we all want the bikes back on the road.....conversely we don't want bikes to be "mis represented" (eg made into an RGS, or a Goldie)