--- In goldenfin@xxxx, "Larry Stanley" <peerless@xxxx> wrote: > If you just spent a small fortune on a 'numbers matching original' rare 44 > year old collectors car only to find that it was a total fraud, the whole > case against the seller would be based on the numbers. The prosecutor would > most definately give a 'flying F' to make sure your case would hold up. Any > laws on the books, no matter how obscure, would be dredged up to help make > the case. The exception to the rule I'd say... In GENERAL, nobody cares, including the state. Take my other hobby for example... vintage VW's... I don't know anyone - myself included - that has the appropriate title & registration for thier old V-Dub. You find an old bug or bus in the woods somewhere, you or somebody you know has an extra title, we take it in to the DMV, and suddently I have plates for my "1967" 1964 Type 2. Nobody even knows where to look for the VIN anyway, or can tell the difference between a 54 and 74 model and even if they did find the VIN they don't beleive the 7 digit number is the REAL VIN. If there's one thing I know from registtering so many vehicles, and that's civil servants. Anything they think will create more work they don't want to deal with. You could come in with a hand-written note that says so-and-so sold you this car for X ammount, and wham bam you got plates and a title, because arguing the situation only creats more work. In my experince, the only people who really seem to care is the INSURANCE company. A friend of mine bought a '59 VW ambulance that served on the Princeton university campus in it's life... well somehow the insurance company ran the #'s and found out it was an Ambulance model... they made him get an official letter of decomission that said it was no longer in service before they would insure it! Brian ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Plan to Sell a Home? http://us.click.yahoo.com/J2SnNA/y.lEAA/MVfIAA/BBiolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: goldenfin-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ <<attachment: winmail.dat>> |
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