From: Horrocks, Aaron (ACHb@pge.com)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 15:09:47 PDT
Register in California!?
You forgot to mention that the CA DMV won't know how to enter the vehicle in their prepackaged system, will not just hand over a plate to a old restored MV... and will put you through an additional 3~4 month wait as you're going to be required to go through the CHP for a vehicle inspection. After making an appointment, waiting at least 2 months, and going through the inspection process you'll then have to go back to the DMV to take them all of that paperwork. The CHP inspection wasn't that bad. Spending all day outside, answering the same questions truthfully and honestly over and over, and having the officer check every inch of the vehicle is better than spending all day in a cramped, stuffy DMV office trying to convince DMV employees in my opinion.
I hear there's problems trying to register MUTTs, being that they are often mistaken as jeeps, and some of those workers won't budge on giving into the facts.
Aaron Horrocks
1952 M38A1
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Subject: Re: [MV] The MUTT project is underway at last!! Need a warning
decal.
"After it's all done, the plan is to get it titled and registered.
Haven't yet decided
whether to do this in CA or TX. It hasn't ever had a civvy
title/registration, so I'll
take care of that in whichever of those two states has the smallest
hassle index. :)"
Speaking from fairly recent experience with my M35 registration, I would
avoid the California DMV if at all possible! My deuce was in a similar
state, having never been registered before, and it took something in the
neighborhood of 8 months of waiting, overcharges, numerous calls to
supervisors in Sacramento, incorrect reimbursements, incorrect name on
title, title sent to person I bought it from instead of me, and so
forth. Plus, due to the financial mess the state is in right now, the
DMV is overworked and hugely understaffed. So even the most simple
transaction is taking a lot longer than it used to. If you want to
drive your Mutt in the same decade you started the title process, I'd
see what the Lone Star State has to offer!
Just my $0.02 worth.
Good luck!
Sean Nichols
'42 IHC FFN-3 Crash Truck
'71 AM General M35A2
Rebublik of Kalifornia
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