In order for the DMV or a Officer to do a VIN verification it has to be a
complete car, not a shell with no drive train. I have had to do several VIN
verifications and always have to wait until the car is road worthy.
> On Oct 28, 2017, at 7:50 AM, Roland Wilhelmy <sentenac.rw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had the local sheriff verify the identity of my BN1. DMV has the forms for
> them to sign. I didn't have another locally licensed Healey and owner nearby
> to verify what the correct ID was but it couldn't hurt.
> -Roland
> San Diego
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> From: Michael MacLean
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:55 PM
> To: Healey List
> Subject: [Healeys] DMV No Go
>
> Took my BN2 body shell to the California DMV today to establish ownership.
> If you remember from past posts I got the body shell and suspension alone
> with no numbers on the car whatsoever. Well, there is a chassis ID plate on
> the firewall now. I was naive enough to think that was all I needed to start
> ownership paperwork, so I took the body on a flatbed trailer to the DMV today
> for a VIN number verification to start the paperwork. After renting a tilt
> flat bed trailer and wasting most of the afternoon at the Redlands DMV office
> it was no dice. I was told it had to have an engine in it to verify the VIN
> number. The car does not even have the suspension in it yet and the engine
> bay is bare. It needs a lot more prep before I can put the engine in. So
> back to square one. I wanted to do a transfer while it was just a shell to
> pay less extorsion money the the state because a body shell is worth a whole
> lot less than a finished car. Apparently they want more money than I want to
> pay.
> Mike MacLean
>
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