Officer, please stand here while I grind off this vin and oh, by the way, could you hold these rivets............I have bought, and sold, many bikes with the vin manually stamped into the neck with no data plate at all. If the title matches the stamped neck, you are good to go. That includes out of state police check bikes and international sales as I have done all of those. Indiana will even issue new vins for custom built bikes if needed, They are MVINxxxxIN and the builder is responsible for stamping the neck before the police inspect it. That is all I know and the drugs in my pants aren't mine because the pants aren't mine. I don't know whos they are.............