FH1100,
I still think you should drive this car for a few hundred miles (Ive found some out of date glue for the wings too) and it's relatively cheap. It's a '92 model but with a serial number for this year. Turn the stereo up and you won't notice the creaking.
The data plate is a tiny bit of metal - but an essential part of tracing the history of an item, be it as large as a hull or a small valve. FALSIFYING / CORRUPTING the data by swapping the plate to another item is what this is all about. Suddenly - YOU the buyer don't actually know what the history is or how frail that item is - the seller has lied to you and you have not bought what you thought you had leading to a loss of reliability and increase in costs. You have bought a Cut-and-Shut helicopter that, if and when investigated due to any incident, no insurance will pay out on...
But you don't need to worry about that...?