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I did just that, used the original HIN I got from Chuck at Whaler, had it put on an 1" x 4" alum tag and lettered (deep so I could take a tracing which is req'd by the registry) at a local trophy shop. Did the trick fine and incredibly I was able to drill out the old rivets and the new one fit in the space perfectly. Tom's question remains though, which number are you going to use? Here in MA they assign a number if there isn't one but it's still in the standard 12 character format....