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Re: Titles/insurance etc...

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Subject: Re: Titles/insurance etc...
From: Walt@chekov.mayfield.hp.com (Walt Boeninger)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:17:51 PST
[from Eoriu 8]
>If you have a production based race car you have 3 choices. 1. don't title it
>Use it only as a race car never to be driven on the street ( again , no
>DMV).2.Title and register it. Now it can be also driven on the street and
>you also  get to have another DMV experience .Or 3, get a "title only".This
>just like #1 except that you "officaly " own it and can "offically " sell it.
>
>Some people are happier when things are offical.. But again, a title is not
>needed to insure it as a race car.
  
One last comment about titling or *not* titling:  Having a valid
title with the correct, original VIN number, is an *extremely*
valuable item on some of the more rare racecars, such as GT350
R models and Trans Am cars.  These cars are too easy to replicate
and without some kind of paper trail, or proof of ownership, can
cause owners of authentic racecars huge amounts of grief. Just
look at how often GT350s appear for sale that are bogus. When our
Shelby Trans Am car was found 10 years ago, the finder made an express
point of having the VIN verified and authenticated by the CHP, and
then titled the car with that VIN. Since only 26 of these
cars were built in 1967, and only 11 or 12 are known today......
Note that all the VINs for these 26 cars are known.
And Mustang coupes are a dime a dozen....
  
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Regards
  
Walt Boeninger - Nor Cal SAAC   Web Site - http://www.norcal-saac.org
Email: walt@hpwrcxe.mayfield.hp.com 67 GT500 & Shelby T-A coupe/ 71 Boss 351
  

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