Rover Eric wrote:
Yeah...you're going to find IGM***** numbers all over your bike, but those aren't the VIN. They have something to do with Italian manufacturing legalities.
"L'Ispettorato generale della Motorizzazione civile e dei trasporti in concessione, con decreto luogotenenziale del 12 dicembre 1944, n. 413, viene posto alle dipendenze del Ministero dei trasporti."
The Inspector General of Motor Vehicles and Transport Concession, an officer of the republic organized by decree 413 on the 12th of December 1944, is organized within the Ministry of Transportation.
The Inspector General is responsible for the certification and type acceptance and compliance of components within motor vehicles, this includes exhausts, frames, horn, engines, carbs, brakes, wheels, etc.
Many parts will have their IGM# stamped on them. These IGM numbers are identical on every part of the same model, VINs however, are designed to be unique. It is the Italian version of CARB or DOT registration. Reproductions may have them, performance parts will probably not. Then again, just because a part has an IGM stamped on it, (especially exhausts and repops like horns) that is not to say that they are valid. In any event, outside of Italy it really doesn't matter.
But god help you if you put it on as a vin, because there is a good chance to be some other mistaken person in your state with it already on thier title and then when they match up you are both in a world of bureaucratic red tape. Just like the person with an Allstate using the 788.944xx number as the VIN, every state has one!
-Luigi
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