Actually, I disagree here. I think the 5 and the 9 posted in the original picture are indeed consistent with those posted by others.
The 5 is a rather unusual shape, because the horizontal and vertical lines at the top of the figure look much larger than the circle underneath them. This is a very unusual way for a 5 to appear in a font, yet you can see that that is the way it appears both in the TT000095 as well as the PT000567 posted by Vytas.
Similarly, most 9 figures used in fonts consist of a round circle on top, with the curved line hanging underneath. While handwritten nines often come to a point on the upper right portion of the circle on top, font nines usually don't. But again, you can see that this point is visible in the way the 9 appears both in the TT000095 as well as the MT000991 posted by Vytas.
I also wonder whether the leading zeros in the VIN vary in depth, because those figures are used over and over again during the stamping process (as are the two letters preceding them). I bet they have to replace them every so many cars, because they get used on every car, and only the non-zero figures are replaced from one car to the next. The leading zeros look slightly shallower than the other digits, not only in the TT000095, but also several of the other VIN plates posted in this topic.
For these reasons, I think the TT000095 sill plate in the first photo is genuine.
Just my O...
[This message has been edited by nsxtasy (edited 19 February 2003).]