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The engine number plate on my 1974 Pantera is looking tired and I am hoping to replace it.  It seems that earlier Panteras had an aluminum plate in this location and at some point the factory changed to this style of plastic plate.  Does anyone know if it is possible to get one?  Also, In case you are wondering, this car is from Europe and never had an emissions plate.

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I called Hall and Wilkinson and neither have this tag.  I went ahead and drilled out the rivets, and took the tag to a local engraving shop.  He is duplicating it but cannot do the reverse stamping of the engine number.  He is making one with the engine number as white numbers in the black box and the other is just a plain black box.  If it looks feasible with the tag he produces, I will send it to a service that does reverse stamping.

let me know where you find the reverse stamping  as I called several metal stamping, engraving, etc. shops in San Diego and none could or would do it.  A reverse die must be made and even then, many said thanks but no thanks.  Steve Wilkinson reverse stamped a new door VIN tag for me but it is the wrong design for a 71. But that is all Steve has to sell and NOBODY has the correct 71 tag blank.  thanks.

Wilkinson's reverse stamping service is my only hope for making this work.  My engraver will be printing my engine number on one tag that he makes for me and it is only a place holder for the factory version.  With luck the additional blank tag he makes will be able to accept a reverse stamp.  If it succeeds then I will order a batch of the blanks and others can get a new stamped tag if they desire.

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My local engraving shop finished my order today and I am pleased with the result.  I ordered two plates: one with my engine number and one with a blank number.  My plan was to send the blank out for reverse stamping but the plate with my engine number looks great.  I can tell that they printed the plate and then engraved the engine number.  The numbers have some depth to them.  Thus, I do not plan on sending the blank out for stamping.  He can make more plates.  They are about $27 for a plate with your engine number.  Let me know if you want one along with your engine number and I will put together a batch order for the engraving shop.

I asked him not to drill holes.  My original was warped from factory because the holes did not line up.  Drilling my own holes insures that the plate will sit flat.

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Steve,

Thank you very much for offering this to the community. I will send you a PM.

If your guy is up to it there has been a big need for the door ID plate for years. Mike Mayberry has a later version but not correct for the Ford era cars. Also, the front trunk ID body plate that Hall has I think is metal. Again, another opportunity if your guy wants to produce them. Maybe Steve Wilkinson would want to stock them and offer to reverse imprint them.

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The engine tag is different for different cars.  See the picture of my 71 tag above.

As for the VIN tag on the door, Steve only has the 72+ version.  I looked high and low and nobody sells a 71 door tag.  The problem with that tag is it is plastic and easily cracks.  I bought a tag from Steve simply to have a tag on the car.  I seriously doubt the  market exists to make a large quantity of these.  He has to send the tag out to have it reverse engraved which requires a reverse die which I also looked into having made and it did not seem viable.  My tag from Steve is fine and I see no way how it would delaminate once riveted on.

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The engine tag is different for different cars.  See the picture of my 71 tag above.

As for the VIN tag on the door, Steve only has the 72+ version.  I looked high and low and nobody sells a 71 door tag.  The problem with that tag is it is plastic and easily cracks.  I bought a tag from Steve simply to have a tag on the car.  I seriously doubt the  market exists to make a large quantity of these.  He has to send the tag out to have it reverse engraved which requires a reverse die which I also looked into having made and it did not seem viable.  My tag from Steve is fine and I see no way how it would delaminate once riveted on.

I was not aware that Wilkinson has the door plates and can have them reverse engraved. Would you post a picture please?

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