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Hopefully I don't shock anyone too greatly but I actually *did* *something* about my VIN issue last week. Actually I started a month or so ago, when I filled out the MV-41 paperwork for getting a new VIN and mailed it in to the state.

They sent it back.

I figured the part that had to be filled out by a state police officer would be handled by them, which in hindsight was probably not too swift on my part. So I called the nearest barracks, eventually got connected with the "vehicle fraud" trooper, and he came out and took a look. He filled out the paperwork verifying that the car was eligible for another VIN. He also told me that I could just get classic car tags and be done with state inspections altogether. Woot!

Except he's wrong.

Antique tags exempt a car from state inspection, but cars with classic tags still face annual inspections. They're just exempt from emissions testing.

So it looks like I'll be getting a brand new VIN courtesy of the Commonwealth. I'll keep you all updated.