Ok, so the dash mounted Vin/serial number plate, on my 65 year old M38 is showing the signs of being 65 years old and in a location that gets a lot of traffic.

The serial number is becoming faint, so faint it is becoming hard to read. 

This will be an issue if I ever sell the Willys or get an inspection. No readable vin, no registration, no drivable Willys!

So is there any place that can re-stamp the serial plaque and it be legal. I would hate to loose all the hard work put into this jeep, as getting a new title where I live is next to impossible.

I used the same outfit Randy suggested.  Robert does beautiful work.




I fixed this one up. 




This is what it looked like prior to the cleanup...





You could try to paint the stamping black then use some 600 grit paper and a small block to sand it back off.  The paint will stay in the low depressions and hopefully highlight the number enough to satisfy the inspector.  This is the basic approach I used to fix the plate in the second photo, but I painted the whole plate then sanded it back off.

The VIN on my tag did not match the VIN on my title when I bought my Jeep.  Instead of correcting my title (which it a LOOOONG process that might or might not work) I just bought a blank VIN plate from Walcks and stamped my title VIN number  on to it using a cheap set of leather/wood stamping tools I had.  I still have my original VIN plate and intended to restore it or get a replacement from the vendor listed earlier...............but that was 4 years ago.