Thread: title legality?

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kEN, CAN YOU NOT USE THE SB100 TITLING ROUTE?

Does anyone know what it take to get a title in Texas

A 60 year-old cop, with no appreciation of the streetrod hobby? What's this world coming to?

bill zz.........in Iowa, the process is pretty much the same, except you would pay 5% tax on your total receipts for the build upon getting the title.

Originally Posted by roofcam

A 60 year-old cop, with no appreciation of the streetrod hobby? What's this world coming to?

bill zz.........in Iowa, the process is pretty much the same, except you would pay 5% tax on your total receipts for the build upon getting the title.

are you kidding?
he shook my hand and wished me luck.
he also told me to listen to the guy that is showing me how to build this
and said i had a great teacher!
he is a heluva nice guy.
just dont lie to him or try to pull a fast one.

Originally Posted by billy zz

are you kidding?
he shook my hand and wished me luck.
he also told me to listen to the guy that is showing me how to build this
and said i had a great teacher!
he is a heluva nice guy.
just dont lie to him or try to pull a fast one.

You were a Boy Scout, weren't you Billy?




Oh come on, that was just a joke! (But you are kinda squeeky clean)

I'm going to go cut the tags off of my new pillows that say "do not remove under penalty of law" and rebel against something!



Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

You were a Boy Scout, weren't you Billy?




Oh come on, that was just a joke! (But you are kinda squeeky clean)

I'm going to go cut the tags off of my new pillows that say "do not remove under penalty of law" and rebel against something!



Don

boy i got you fooled.
i have a confession to make.
actually i am a 46 year old stoner/punk/degenerate/heathen/neerdowell.


but i can straighten up and fly right for a few minutes at a time....
whew!
i felt like i was at an A.A. meeting there for a minute!

I've been following this thread since it was first posted and realize I am very lucky about where I live and how scary the future for traditional hotrodding is becoming.

As far as the titling portion, I have had a few customers over the years that I have build cars for that have not bothered with a title until after the project is finished. I just finished up one for a customer this spring who had been slowly but surely building it for that last 15 years. At the point it left my shop he had invested close to $30K in over that time. For me I just can’t see taking a chance with that much money on a vehicle I don’t technically own. I’ve put off the start on amny of my own projects several months in some cases because I WILLNOT start on them until I have good paper.

My experience in AZ for titling a car has been pretty painless (compared to other states) over the last few years. First off the there are a couple of avenues you can go to obtain a title, a bonded title (requires bonding insurance), filing abandoned on the vehicle, or specially constructed vehicle title (requires receipts on all parts purchased). Many years ago AZ used to accept titles from places like Broadway title, but my understanding is they no longer do.

Taxes are collected thru license plate fees meaning the newer and more expensive a vehicle is the more the plates cost and as the vehicle gets older the cost eventually bottoms out at about $30 for a 2 year registration REGARDLESS of the actual vehicle value.

The state has no periodic safety inspection requirements and only 2 areas (Tucson and Phoenix) require emissions testing. As I fortunately do not live in either area I’m pretty free to do some of the swaps I have and still be able to resister the vehicle. Although I’m not really up on the emissions testing I understand there are provisions for an exemption for cars designated as collector cars (requires collector car insurance).

Looking at the California law it would severely limit or eliminate some of the favorite swaps I have done over the years and the one I am currently doing (500 Caddy into an 83 El Camino). I can’t justify building them for myself if I can’t drive them on the street. Dictating specific “engine packages” for a swap would basically make hotroding pretty much cookie cutter.

As I said I know how lucky I am and I am also aware how quickly that could all change based on by the passage of a few new laws.

Originally Posted by Bruce lee

kEN, CAN YOU NOT USE THE SB100 TITLING ROUTE?

I'm not sure what that is.
Ken

Ken, it is the 500 sequence numbered exempt reg. that california puts out the first day of each year.