oh oh Chris, this was a big topic on the samba for the old ones, where it seems the Museum is no longer putting original engine numbers on the certificates unless you provide them with yours, and they confirm it. The suggestion was that there was some liability issue where someone got an engine number from the museum, stamped it on a block and a buyer who got the car (with a certificate) was told it was original when it wasn't. Then the museum had to be involved because they had given proof that this engine (or at least that number) was original to the car. When I did mine for the Zwit in the summer, they sent me the birth certificate and then a separate letter to confirm that the numbers I provided matched their records for the car!
