Replacement shell-DynaCorn/Promax/Goodmark :article in Hot Rod -VIN issue noted

[DMZ73]

All,

Many have expressed concern regarding replacement shell VINS. How do they do it? What do they do to register the car? How do they identify it as a new body?

Since it does not come directly  from the O.E manufacturer i.e. Ford, GM..etc.. It can not have a VIN. The sate issues a new VIN based on a serial numble and a certificate of originality - (I can't quote right now but it is in this months article from Hot Rod) Anyway, the articel mentions that all states have different laws on this issue. I don't need a weigh in of opinions on how people feel about the re-body thing, I just want to know about first hand expirience.

Who has expirienced purchasing/titling/registering a new shell here on the site?

I will throw in the quote and issue for proper refrerence later.

Dan

[72hemi]

The guy my dad works for builds cobras and Ford GT's and the new bodies in california will fall under the same deal, which is at the first of the year you have to go down to DMV and file for a special title that only 500 are given each year, so they go in like 20 minutes if that. Or the other option is to make the car meet all of todays safety and smog standards, and then titling it in california is easier. Or you can go about the illegal route that people have a tendency to do like Boyd Coddington (who got caught a couple of years ago) an install vin tags off destroyed cars.

[Green Drop Top]

In Florida there is new legislation on the books that if passed will allow titles to be issued to cars according to which year/car they closest resemble. This means that if you build a "New" (Dinacore type body) 1971 Cuda for instance, it will be titled as a "1971 Cuda" but will likely have some sort of oddball VIN# like FF19283456 rather than a BS231R1XXXXX as an original would have had. This way there would be no VIN Issues and hobbiests could get a "real" 71 Cuda and not just a 2007 "Hot Rod" title according to what year the car was built.

Is this all a good thing or a bad thing? Beats me 

[71GTX]

Not wanting to hijack the thread, but Harms, is the wording for ALL motor vehicles, or cars specifically??

A guy that I work with up here bought a Cobra kit car and put it all together and had a state issued VIN and the year on it was 1966, the year that the kit was modeled after.

[Green Drop Top]

ALL motor vehicles

All

[DMZ73]

500 a year makes it kind of tough, doesn't it. I think I have heard that at one time or another. We have a specialty title here in Mich. "a created car" or something to that degree.

Dan

[DMZ73]

I grabbed this off of another topic to show what Dynacorn says is Legit...

< http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=32495.msg328936#msg328936 >

I am going to find someone who has gone through the process firsthand.

Dan