Vehicle Ownerships for sale??

cannucky said

BINGO - any car can have a proper title issued for it provided it passes a full DMV vetted safety inspection , the only thing you save by buying a non matching title is the DMV inspection and if your work is to shoddy to pass then your POS shouldn't be on the road and you shouldn't be able to sell your POS to someone else in a way that allows them to put it on the road without being inspected , I think it's pretty safe to assume he only sells titles for cars into the fifties because that's where the market for this sort of scam is greatest since the industry started to get serious about documenting their products with numbers , build tags and codes in the sixties .

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Well, not exactly. It really depends on WHERE you are. The safety inspection isn't the issue most folks are trying to avoid, its the year on the title they issue you. Even if you do impeccable work, you can be issued a "special construction" title with the current year. So, your original 1931 Model A body, with a new frame (for safety!), just became a 2013 special construction, and in some places is subject to the CURRENT SMOG LAWS. The same car, with a "title", hits the road as a '31 Ford and is subject to nothing.

With reproduction bodies and frames this is an issue too. You can buy a 1932 Ford Roadster from Brookville, and put a brand new frame under it. Viola, new car that looks like a 1932 Ford- not one single thing is original 1932 Ford. It also gets titled as a new car, that 2013 special construction again. So, some folks will obtain an old 1932 title, so that their brand new car hits the street as a 1932, and is exempt from all sorts of headaches. As more and more entire car bodies are available it becomes a bigger problem.