<VV> rebodied corvairs

[Sethracer at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/28/2005 4:15:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
cytis at charter.net writes:

I  recently read where Boyd Coddington was fined around $3000 and had to 
complete  a number of hours of community service for using "shoebox car" titles on 
some  of his creations. 
Larry



One of the problems Boyd ran into was "valuing" the original cars as a  "1932 
Ford" when there were no original parts on it. California considers it a  
newly constructed vehicle and taxes it on that value, not on the value of an old  
car. There are several rules in California about Identifying a vehicle  
depending on the source of the parts - the majority of the parts, and what the  car 
is built to resemble. For goofs like you and I, and our one-time Corvair  
fix, it is probably not an issue, especially if you own both cars and are  
essentially, sacrificing one to rebuild the other. Boyd is big time and quite  
visible, to say the least. At that level ($$$$$) he should have had someone  
watching out for legality! - Seth Emerson