Tech's Web Harley-Davidson® Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Info 1970-1980 Harley Davidson ® VIN Identification Guide This list is unofficial and is not gospel, only what I have been able to cross in various manuals, web sites and dealerships. If you have more updated info on this data, please let me know.

He also observed that the transmission appeared to be a Harley Davidson transmission, but the identification number on the transmission had been welded over. Locating the Harley VIN Prior to 1961 On Harley models prior to 1961, the engine number acts as the VIN. This number can be found on the left side engine case. Harley models produced prior to 1969 do not carry any frame number. VIN Numbering Conventions: First two numbers are the model year. Letters (up to four) are the model designation.

Year Groups Model Info VIN Info • Numbers on both frame and engine. From the factory, the numbers on the frame and engine matched exactly*. (There is an exception to this. See ' The 1979 Exception' below).

The legal VIN number is on the frame.

> > > Harley-Davidson VIN Number Explained In this article of Tech Tips we’ll breakdown the progression of VIN numbers used by Harley-Davidson and explain what they all mean. That being said this article is written to be a helpful guide, and hopefully you find it as such. However, we DO NOT provide support related to VIN numbers.

So, if you are unable to find an answer to your question please DO NOT contact us. If it is not in this article, we can not help you. Prior to 1930: Prior to 1930 H-D VIN numbers were a bit erratic and model number designations changed frequently. Unfortunately there is very little information out there for these numbers and what information is available is not always very accurate. From 1930 to 1962 the VIN number was the engine number and was only located on the left case. The VIN was between 8 and 10 digits with the first 2 digits being the production year, the next 2 – 4 letters being the model designation and the last 4 digits being the production number Example: Year Model Production Number 49 FL 0001 1962-1969: From 1962 to 1969 the VIN numbers where pretty much the same as from 1930 to 1962, but if the production number had 4 digits the first digit would be odd during odd production years and even during even production years.

If the production number had 5 digits the first two digits would be odd during odd production years and even during even production years. Example: Year Model Production Number 66 FLHB -1980: From 1970 to 1980 the VIN number could be found on both the frame and the engine and would match exactly with the exception of a few months in 1979 which was due to an idea by the factory to make them different. The idea was quickly killed after law enforcement notified Harley-Davidson that it made the bikes look stolen. The production date range was from 1/9/1979 to 2/7/1979. Passport na vagon domu. The VIN numbers affected are 43000H9 through 48199H9.

The engine numbers where 10 digit numerical IDs. The VIN numbers of this era where 9 digit codes where the first two digits corresponded to the model code (see list below), the next 5 digits were the production numbers (always starting above 10,000) and the last 2 digits were the year code (see list below). From 1981 to present the VIN has been a 17 digit code located on the frame and abbreviated on the engine. In this VIN the first 3 digits are the world manufacturer ID (see list below), the fourth digit is the weight class (see weight class list below).