From: Kris Kirby (kris@catonic.net)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 21:18:21 PDT
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Edward Greeley wrote:
> Personally, I am really tired of fighting the b.s. every time I decide
> to buy a vehicle (or boat) in Texas, for example, or Florida, and bring
> it back here to bass-ackwards Alabama (all the states are similar in
> this respect) and try to get the thing registered/titled. First, you
> have the know-nothing idiots who "work" (coffee breaks, gossip-time,
> lunch time, etc) in the DMV, Tax Collector's Office, or whichever
> flung-dung Mickey-Mouse bureaucratic entity is responsible put you
> through the grinder. If what you are trying to do is the least bit out
> of the ordinary it will require at least one call to the state capital
> to another know-nothing idiot(s). Again, coffee break, lunch time, etc.
> Try again, later, between 0930 and 0945. Been there, done that.
Reminds me, I need to hammer on ALDOT about the title to my car. I have a
1994 Chevy Caprice I bought off of a guy in IL with a commercial title as
it had been a taxi and before that a police car. Naturally, ILDOT could
give a flip less what's under the hood -- fleet titles are usually just
duplicates with as little information as possible on them. So we brought
'er back, surrendered the IL title, and applied for a Alabama Title.
It came. Caprice must be like Cavalier, right? They put my car down as a
four-cylinder. In 1994, Chevy only shipped one type of engine (two
different displacements) in the Caprice... And it has 8 cylinders.
*Fume*.
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