Registering a "parts-only" car

This is a big No No in Kalifornia now from what I've read. It's called washing the title. Alot of custom shops got busted for it. Mostly by registering their non original street rods as the original body year in states that register by body year design. Basically buy a 32 ford roadster kit, and register it as a 32 roadster, not a special build for the year put together. They do this to get around emission requirements. And to wash salvage from the title. I read Boyd Coddington and some other big names got busted for this a year or so ago.

Yes, they went after Boyd big time. Agents went into the shop, yellow taped the perimeter, closed it down for awhile they took his files and hit him with some big fines. They went to Roy Brizio's Street Rods in So. San Francisco and did the same thing. They went after one other well know rod shop which of course, is slipping my memory right now.

I believe what really triggered this is that Boyd was talking about how he was doing this on a TV program. I don't know if it was on his show or some interview but the Feds moved in shortly after that.