I would have lost a couple over the years. At least NC allows you to put a bonded ***le and their sticker on it. https://www.hagerty.com/media/news/...aves-restored-1959-corvette-from-the-crusher/
I read on another site that the issue with that particular car wasn't just the rivets used to attach the vin plate, apparently the stamped numbers on the frame were defaced too. https://www.kctv5.com/2021/09/08/impounded-cl***ic-car-rare-cl***-contraband/ Quote from article above ... "The cl***ic 1959 Chevy Corvette falls into that category because in addition to the VIN on the dash, the VIN on another part of the car is destroyed". If both the vin plate and the frame stamping have been tampered with, how can anyone determine if the vin plate truly belongs to that car?
it is good to live in a state with no inspections. we have bi annual smog checks, but not in every county. that's it.
I can picture the shootout now. You just put a very low value on your life when you try to ****** my ****.
That’s not entirely correct, if you try to get a ***le to a vehicle that is not currently registered or on non-op, you have to have the VIN/SN verified. Smog shops also verify the VIN before a test. “Newer” vehicles also have a barcode that is scanned as well.
I read the Hagerty link, what wasn’t mentioned is whether the owner did the restoration or it was done at a shop. Easy for a private individual to not know about that law, but a restoration business should know better. I had the CHP do a verification on a ‘59 PU, plate is on the driver side door jam, one of the rivets had come out, so I put a sheet metal screw in it to secure it. The officer saw that and said I had to remove the screw immediately or I’d be in violation of the law. Was a good thing I didn’t get gung-ho and take the other rivet out and put another screw into it to match.
The car was restored by a cl***ic car dealer in Indiana, the guy bought it from them. Hmmm, I wonder who that dealer was. You would think you'd be protected buying from a dealer. The only red flag to me would have been 50K, what he paid, was under value. Kansas Man 'Throwing a Party' to Celebrate New Law That Saves His 1959 Corvette from the Crusher - Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle (corvetteblogger.com)
Ya, 50k seems like a “steal” About 20 years ago my Dads friend had his 61/62 Vette at a place here in Oakdale to be “restored” I don’t know all the details but he was told it would be 6 months. When he went to pick up the car he said it looked about 1/2 done, he had to pay 60k to get it on a trailer and take it home.
Unfortunate yes, but this is why you need to be extremely careful with serial numbers and VINs. A friend purchased a rare version of a certain Shelby built car a year ago that was thought to be missing or destroyed for a long time. Went to register it and found that the VIN was already in use. Huge red flag! A shop built a clone of said car, used that out of the system VIN and sold it as being authentic to a buyer overseas. Now if that clone ever comes back here it will have to be destroyed immediately due to the legal *********** that took place in the aftermath. The law protected my friend in this instance because of all the do***entation he had on hand from the original owner of the car and now the real one is being brought back to life.
Sheriff looked at my 65 plymouth and said, better get some rivets in that vin tag. I said ok. They are spot welded on at the factory. Or maybe it was my 55 chevy? Lippy
Probably a good idea for everyone to stock up on some rivits for emergencies I kinda wonder if using a small rivit-nut might work well. They look a lot like a rivit and very easy to install. Worst case scenario if it didn't look ok you could put some super glue in the threads and push a round head rivit in place.
1950 Buicks came from the factory WITH SCREWS attaching the tag to the A pillar. As we well as the Fisher Body tag to the cowl. Ben
I guess that the next time I buy an expensive old car, I should check that all identification numbers are present and match.
I can tell one thing for damned sure, a good number of you have never taken a vehicle you bought out of state to a state inspection station to have it inspected so that you can get the ***le changed nor have you ever taken a car that you bought with a bill of sale through the inspection process with the state. When the Washington state patrol officer inspected my 48 when I moved to Washington it had a Texas motor change branded ***le. He looked at the held on with screws door post tag, it matched the ***le and life was good. A fews later when I took an ot car in to the same office that I had bought from a guy who bought it at a salvage auction they pulled it into a side room with a hoist, closed the roll down door and went over it with a fine tooth comb. I had worked on it for a month fixing damage from the last time it was wrecked but the inspecter told me that it had been through a worse wreck before that and had been repaired. He basically told me that I was fool for having bought it but it did p*** inspection. Not long after I ran that car though inspecton the state busted the shop that was selling those "rebuilders" for not processing them into the state correctly. Still with the case of the Corvette and a lot of our rods or customs or restored cars the simple case of "we always have" removed the vin tag and reworked the car and then put it back on is what gets people in trouble. Same as buying the 25 buck aftermarket tag with the pretty original writing on it and using a set of tool store number and letter stamps to stamp the serial number on it and sticking it on the car. I'll keep my old tag with 10 coats of paint on it and tape over the stamped number and put coat number 11 on it as the only thing that counts is that stamped number. The state doesn't give a rip about the pretty writing and patent numbers that you are so **** about.
That's not entirely correct, since we are speaking of running registered vehicles here in a state that has "Routine inspections" no old car I ever own will be "inspected" by the government under the current rules. I've owned my 61 Dodge for 35 years and not one inspection for anything.
Sounds like a lot of you need to use the Vermont Trick. I did while I lived in Minnesota on an off topic vehicle. works like a charm! Get a ***le with a Vermont Registration - Chin on the Tank – Motorcycle stuff in Philadelphia.
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