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Re: [oletrucks] DMV Story

To: ADvent@thuntek.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] DMV Story
From: "A.B." <bigfred@unm.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:28:17 -0600 (MDT)
How do you get the historical tags in NM?
I could have a museum in my back yard!
-alfie


On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 ADvent@thuntek.net wrote:

> I see you are in Calif. I bought a 55 or 56 with no bed and with a Pencilvania
> or however you spell it title. It didn't even have the year on the title and I
> told them a 55. Well, I had a 50/50 chance of being right. Either a 55 or 56.
> All I needed was a weight ticket to tag it and $72 dollars for the tags and
> another $15 or $20 for other fees. I'd throw a major complaint to you tag 
>office
> supervisor. No law says you need a bed. I love New Mexico. My tags now costs 
>$25
> a year and historical tags are about $3 a year with a 5 year tag or some other
> goofy period. And yes, being a thorn in your paw is their unofficial job
> prerequisite
> 
> W&D wrote:
> 
> > I was frantically working on my '39 pickup in order to be able to join a
> > friend
> > with another '39 in a group of funky old vehicles in the local Independence
> > Day Parade.  Last Friday the cab and front clip had been cleaned up and
> > primered and the bed was off for sandblast, primer and new wood.  I took a
> > break from the tools and trailered the cab and chassis out to DMV in
> > order to get the registration and the mandatory VIN verification.  After an
> > hour in line they told me to bring the vehicle to the VIN verification area,
> > which I did.  After 10 or 15 minutes of waiting there, a DMV person comes
> > out, looks at the cab and chassis and says "it's not finished yet, we can't
> > do this."  To make a long story short, and after showing the supervisor the
> > factory spec option of "cab and chassis" she still refused to look at the
> > VIN
> > but issued me a temporary registration and requires re-inspection after the
> > bed is in place.
> >
> > I'm applying for Historical Vehicle status which is a class by itself, not
> > auto, not truck.
> > Needless to say, if I had a temperature gauge on my body, it would have been
> > pegged out.
> >
> > Can someone tell me this:  Do you have to be a jerk before you're hired by
> > the DMV
> > or do they learn that on the job?
> >
> > I have registered several of these old timers over that past few years and
> > EVERY
> > time it's a new hassle.  I know they're hoping I'll just take my old truck
> > and just go away.
> >
> > <><
> > Whitney Haist
> > Orinda, CA
> > Chevy Trucks: 2-'46s & a '39
> > www.jps.net/haist/artdeco.htm
> >
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> 
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> 

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