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Commie Cutie in DAVIS CA w/CA Title and Reg!
Geoff Kirkpatrick
Comments on the listing seem to indicate it's really a late 1980s car with an altered VIN. That scares me. It may have made it through customs and gotten legitimate paperwork but it's still an altered VIN. The chances of the feds catching you are pretty small at this point but they aren't zero. There's some risk that the car could be seized, and there would be pretty much no recourse.
David Russel
Well, I never said it was perfect. ;-}
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The Tatra had the original engine # as the VIN. After the VW engine was installed the car was sold, with the wrong VIN from NY to Michigan, then to Nevada, followed by 2 sales in CA, the second one being to Martin Swig. Then on to Illinois and back to CA & my hands, all with the wrong VIN. As the chassis # was stamped into an easily observed trunk body panel, and matched the number on the data plate (this story has been shared here in the past) the CHP signed off on the correction and now CA title and reg are correct.
Obviously, if the trabant numbers have been changed it is going to have to stay that way with the risk you pointed out.
David
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On Oct 12, 2022, at 4:06 PM, Geoff Kirkpatrick via groups.io <britcarnut=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:
Comments on the listing seem to indicate it's really a late 1980s car with an altered VIN. That scares me. It may have made it through customs and gotten legitimate paperwork but it's still an altered VIN. The chances of the feds catching you are pretty small at this point but they aren't zero. There's some risk that the car could be seized, and there would be pretty much no recourse.