Has anyone got NH streetrod plates? I talked to a lady at the DMV and she told me I need to bring my car to a "salvage station". Is this true? I thought a state trooper would stop by your house in the past check the engine vin and look for a few saftey thing and you were good to go. Has the state changed the way they do streetrod plates? I am 40min from the nearest salvage station and it is open from 12:00 to 2:00 on monday only Plus dont have a trailer. So if what the lady at the DMV said is true I am screwed.
That sound like what us M***achusetts street rodders are being forced to do. We're now forced to get a State Police Salvage Inspection then we must suffer the indignity of having a M***. ***igned VIN slapped on the vehicle. It truly ****S.
Thanks roddinron There is a ton of info in there, I am not a lawer but I think I can get a state trooper to look at the car to get the plates. "The certificate of verification required by this section shall be do***ented by an instrument designed and issued by the director. Any authorized highway enforcement officer or any individual who isauthorized by the director to perform motor vehicle inspections provided by RSA 266:1,"
Somersworth where you get your moneys wort up the hill half way down!!Like most people at the dmv they have no clue!!I your car is not yet regestered. You will have to go to city hall get a verification of vin number go to a N>H> inspection station they will look at the numbers to varify that they exist and fill in the slip. then you can go back to city hall and reg ester it after that inspection before 10 days Do not belive that the inspector has to see it. Call troop A in Epping and talk to them, they are the troopers for Strafford county area there is a trooper who lives in Somerswort behind the old Staples Chicken Farm near the ST.Martins church off West High St.he is a great guyand he knows his stuff!! definition; street rod body and frame manafactured before 1949 which has been modified for safe road use. 266,113 equipment required under rsa541 a basically inspectiable like most cars on the road number plates261-89b one number plate, .261;22 I serial number stamped on the FRAME like 25 dollar fee for the paper work.If the car set on the Four rims only, there must be 4 in clearance under the car front to rear and the exhaust goes directly out the rear at the bumber area. New hampshire selected motor vechicle and boating related laws annotated ccheck the web and I think you will be able to look at it yourself might be clearer to you then, Somersworth was all about HOT Rodding and stock car racing in the 60s some of the fastest street cars were in somersworth area lot of history there. Saturday nights drag racing on the Spaulding turnpike just north of the weeks traffic circle. FOR REAL!! Barron von vasnic
I called 2 state troopers posts today and they both said I will have to have the car trailered to the salvage station on Monday from 12:00 to 2:00 to get streetrod plates. What a pain in the *** so I need to take a day out of work and pay someone to tow it there then home because you cannt get the plates on the spot.
That is a pain in the ***. What the hell are they thinking. In Maine it used to be that a trooper would come to your house , verify the info on the Street Rod Plate application and sign it. You were then good to go with the DMV. Now the Trooper doesn't even have to verify anything....all you do is sign an form stating that your car meets the requirements for street rod plates . You have to get the form notarized. I'm not sure what happens if you lie on the form. But in any event I think we are a bit more trusting of people than our neighbors to the south. Good luck. You could always move here....we have plenty of room.
How about antique plates, no bs just is it parade quality? Plus its way cheapier and have never been bothered Bob
JM, I went with std p***enger car plates. Then had the serial no.-VIN verified by a friend who runs an Insp. station. It was possible to get a state ***le which was plus with this info. Lead-man knows the drill and the details.
DOT used to come to your house. Now Tamworth DMV tells me due to budget cuts they no longer do it for free. $40 an hour portal to portal to have DOT officer come to your house and first ***ess your body is a real or replica body Pre-'48. They will then sign the form for certification that you have a street rod. Bear in mind this is only done ONCE per vehicle so if previous owner(s) have had street rod plates on that vehicle you don't need certification. AND if you get a DOT officer like I did some years ago, he'll h***le you about the scrub line! I finally got so pissed I called him back after removing my tires from all four wheels, rolled the GD car across the floor on steel rims and told him that the GD scrub line was fine. The DOT shows up in Tamworth second Friday of each month and yeah, they tell you to trailer or truck your vehicle over so they can look at it. I just got regular plates for now, about two weeks ago, and when they are about to expire I'll get DOT to sign form, car was built in Maine in the 80s and no one in NH of subsequent owners had street rod plates, and I'll try and put the plate I have, #150, on the car then.
Find out (If you know a lawyer who likes old cars), may be considered as: "individual who is authorized by the director to perform motor vehicle inspections".
Antique plates work out good, cheap, 2 year inspection if you can find someone with the stickers, no restrictions, and if your not blowing the tires off it the local cops seem to ignore you.
I have a 29 Chevy roadster, I need streetrod plates because I am not running fenders. If I understand it right if I had Antique plates I would have to have the exhuast exit past the rear bumper, run a hood and fenders. "Now Tamworth DMV tells me due to budget cuts they no longer do it for free. $40 an hour portal to portal to have DOT officer come to your house and first ***ess your body is a real or replica body Pre-'48. They will then sign the form for certification " I wish I could pay the DOT 40hr to come to my house I asked the DMV and they told me I must bring it to the salvage station. No trooper would be sent to my home. I have a tow truck set up for Monday its going to cost me 350.00 for the tow and for him to wait there for the inspection and the tow home. Plus I need to take a day off work.
I'm not sure about the laws on fenders and the hood, but I have seen hot rods running antique plate with out them. Maybe not legally? Good luck with it hope it all gos well for you, let us all know what you find out.
i hope all this horse**** dealing with dmv stays to the east of the conn. river. for once i think the vt. dmv has its **** together.
I took the roadster to Dover NH had it inspected, It p***ed and they gave me a vin sticker. The inspector said now you need to go the the DMV in Portsmouth to pay. I did that and then they said you need to go to your city hall to pay there. I did then they beat me the city hall said now you need to drive to concord pay more and pickup the plates. So between taking off work early, paying for the tow, the dmv and city hall I am out almost 475.00 and still dont have plates. LIVE FREE OR DIE!!!!!!! GO NH
I know this is an older(er) thread, but just thought I would share my expereince on this topic since I registered my '33 as a street rod today. I had my car certified as a street rod, but didn't do any of the salvage station, state police, etc. The law states this (as jmpowie posted): "The certificate of verification required by this section shall be do***ented by an instrument designed and issued by the director. Any authorized highway enforcement officer or any individual who isauthorized by the director to perform motor vehicle inspections provided by RSA 266:1," I know a guy who runs an inspection station in NH, and he came over to my shop, with the official State of NH form and filled it out for me (he also did a VIN verification). When I went to register my car today, I went to the town and paid the town fee ($6), and then went down to Concord with all my paperwork: Street rod certification, VIN verification, town portion of the registration, the bill of sale (not sure I even needed that in Concord- just at the town), and a form to run vanity plates (optional of course). I was at the DMV in Concord for maybe 20 minutes, and the clerk never even mentioned the fact that an inspection station did the street rod certification. I ***ume the clerk had maybe seen it before, but I didn't want to bring it up and find out. Everything went smooth, got my paper plate, and the real one should be here in a couple weeks. I only know of the one inspection station in NH, but I'm sure there are others who would do it- or may be willing to do it if they get the forms from the DMV.
Geez what ever happend to what it says on the NH lic plate??? Somethig about live free or die??????????????
Breathing new life into this decade old thread...anyone get clarification on this process? JMPOWIE, where'd you land with your plates? I don't have a VIN number and cant figure out where to start...I've talked to the NH DMV and a few State trooper buddies and nobody seems to have a clue.
Did you get this figured out? I'm also working through this for my '34 Ford. Ended up registering with p***enger plates due to all of the confusion and now can't p*** inspection with these plates.
If you have a serial #, you will have to register it as such. there shouldn't be much criteria for a 34. Why is it not p***ing? For what I'm doing, I did get it figured out...just have to get the seat in (needs to have that to p*** the Statie's once-over). Once a Statie has signed off on it (basic safety inspection to 1932 standards), he will issue a serial number and then I can get it registered as a Street Rod and get plates. This is the ONLY legal way you can have open wheels in NH.
I'd have to think that Shaun1162 had his ducks in a very tidy row when he started the process. Doing your homework and knowing and understanding the process. As for Macey, what is the process from changing from regular (p***enger) plates to Street rod plates? I'd think that one should be able to walk in with the current registration and or ***le in hand and say that you would like to change the (now registered) car to a street rod registration. There has to be some sort of vin on that registration.
NH law is not written very clearly and is broken into many bits/pieces - it's the whole Live Free or Die thing in action. Researching this online will actually leave you scratching you head more than when you started. I'm guessing that in a state with just under 1.4 million people total, Street Rod registrations are fairly uncommon. I had to pull some favors and contact a very senior official in the NH State Police as well as the NH DMV ***le office to gain a complete understanding of the process. I am currently getting the interior finished (have to have a seat to p*** State Trooper inspection) and gathering bills of sale/receipts for the various major components that the car is built from (they are attempting to thwart those whole would build a car from stolen parts). The BIG difference is that Mr48chev (and Shaun1162) already had a VIN...that is pretty straight forward process from there. Looks like Shaun1162 changed from a standard registration to a Street Rod registration and the process is outlined in his post (unless the rules have changed in the past 11 years). If you don't have a VIN (as I ), you must get an inspection from a salvage official or a State Trooper to get a VIN. You may have to trailer the car to their office if you cant get them to come to you. In this scenario, you then go to your town clerk and register it as a Street Rod. There should be no need to go to the DMV in Concord (or any other DMV). One thing to note is that as a "Street Rod" you have to get the car inspected every April. Designated LE offices stage these inspections on certain days in April.
Looking up Macey's other thread I found the law pertaining to registering as a street rod and it is pretty cut and dried. I've said for years that when you start building a hot rod or any car that has to go through the inspection process to get a ***le you need to get a binder and page savers and start a "build book" where you put paperwork that shows how you bought or otherwise legally obtained the major parts. That includes bills of sale, receipts and other do***entation such as a photo copy of the ***le of the engine and trans donor and the paperwork from the s**** yard where you hauled it and handed them the ***le with the hulk. Add in printed out screen shots of Craigslist, FB market place, Hamb Cl***ifieds or other adds that you bought said parts from. Add in some of those divider tabs like you used in the binder to separate cl*** work back in high school and you have an orderly book with sections. It doesn't need every item you bought for the build unless you just want that for later info for your self or who you sell the car to. Just the major parts that the state wants to believe that you legally obtained. That is part of being organized and being ready when you do have it inspected.
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