Thread: Florida Rod Registation

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Has anyone registered their rods in Florida with the new SEMA announced Street Rod/Kit Car registration process that was announced last year?? Getting ready to register my '32 and want to try to stay away from purchasing an old registration/title and ending up with legal problems! Would like to know about this new law and how easy/hard it was to register your car. If you get your car registered through this new law, and you move to another state can you register the car there?? Or sell the car to someone in another state, can they register it there? Thanks

I've never used one of these special titles, like the "constructed from parts" ones, and instead have always used a regular car title. No particular reason other than to me it makes the car more like a regular car, with no restrictions or special circumstances surrounding it. I have heard that some of the special titles incorporate the year of manufacture of the engine block as the determining factor as to what equipment the car must have.....ie, emissions and safety equipment.

You also bring up a very good question relative to if you relocate the car to another State...........what happens there? Will the new State accept the car as exactly what you had in Florida?

For me it opens more questions and gray areas than I care to deal with, so I just buy a title and use that. BTW, there was a guy on the HAMB selling a 32 title recently and the price dropped to something like $ 7 or $ 800 dollars, which for a Deuce title is cheap IMO.

But what I have said above is just the way I do it. The hot rod titles may be perfectly fine, and maybe someone else will be able to say they have done it and like it.

Don

Whatever you find out, please come back and share with us. I'm particularly interested because I'm getting started on my own '32 Coupe project and will be facing the same situation with the Florida DMV.

Thanks,
Mike