Ok so i have a huge dilemma......i need opinions from everyone!

[OR VietVet]

He may or may not be able to do "this" and may or may not be able to do "that". It still doesn't dilute the fact that he was asking if it was ok to break the law. The negative responses he got were all about what he was asking. He planned to break the law and wanted members here to say that was "ok". Enough laws get broken every day in the USA. I don't and other members don't, want to encourage another "entitled" brain fart to do the same.

 

[homesick]

I had a similar situation years ago. I bought a Blazer, but when I went to change the title, it was in his Girlfriend's name and she didn't sign the title. DMV wanted it signed, AND a notorized bill of sale. (I had a bill of sale, which was NOT notorized, and SHE didn't even sign it. ) They wouldn't accept my bill of sale, or the title. Tried to contact them, they moved, and either changed numbers or avoided my calls to no end. So the Blazer ended up sitting in my yard for 2 years while I tried to resolve the title situation, but kept hitting roadblocks. While it sat, rats from the yard next door got into it and destroyed the wiring in the engine compartment and under the vehicle. I tried to start fixing it, but it became far too much of a headache, plus I still couldn't get a title for it, so I junked it. The junkyard accepted the unsigned title that I had a long with the bill of sale. They just made me sign paperwork swearing that I did indeed purchase it from the person listed on the title. At least I got most of my money back on it. I ended up losing about $200 on that pile.

You can't even donate 'em without a title either.

joe

 

[homesick]

He may or may not be able to do "this" and may or may not be able to do "that". It still doesn't dilute the fact that he was asking if it was ok to break the law. The negative responses he got were all about what he was asking. He planned to break the law and wanted members here to say that was "ok". Enough laws get broken every day in the USA. I don't and other members don't, want to encourage another "entitled" brain fart to do the same.

It's like the guys who brag about returning tools for refund after they've used them, and then getting hurt because some of us don't applaud their "economizing".

joe

 

[S33k3r]

Were we overly harsh with him? I mean, we want to discourage him from becoming a felon, for sure, but could we have been nicer in our attempts at persuasion?

 

[OR VietVet]

I have no patience for thieves. That is what he was gonna do. He asked for "approval" and tried to "justify" doing an illegal act. There are too many people out there, all over the USA, that get babied and think it is ok to break the law and steal and justify it for numerous reasons. I was waiting for him to say that he got ripped off somewhere in his past life and this is a form of reparations.

 

[homesick]

I have no patience for thieves. That is what he was gonna do. He asked for "approval" and tried to "justify" doing an illegal act. There are too many people out there, all over the USA, that get babied and think it is ok to break the law and steal and justify it for numerous reasons. I was waiting for him to say that he got ripped off somewhere in his past life and this is a form of reparations.

Mama, and/or our lowering cultural standards, probably told the li'l snowflake he "deserves" it.

joe

 

[Scott in AZ]

Swapping VINs. Hmmmmm. What coould POSSIBLY go wrong?

 

[03catburban]

Slight derail but what is yalls take on a chassis swap between 2 vehicles

 

[OR VietVet]

Slight derail but what is yalls take on a chassis swap between 2 vehicles

As long as done legally, just like the OP's swap if done legally, I personally have no problems. Just the fact that a person knows there is an originally matching VIN on the frame and does a swap, should be enough of a prompt to do it legally, start to finish. There is really no such thing as, "I guarantee you I will never sell this vehicle so there is no real concern with having a non matching VIN on the frame". Like has been brought up as well, what about you are keeping it and a wreck happens and the mismatch is found by the effected insurance company and then all of a sudden the coverage is gone for a person that could have been hurt physically.

 

[mountie]

In N California, back in 1972, a neighbor bought a real Lola T 70 Mk 3 B from Europe. It was a limited street build version. He couldn't register it, due to the "non-street vehicle" in the USA. So he purchased a street legal version - kit car, and used it's vin number for the real Lola. ( The fastest speed I have ever been on a public road!! ) No one would know that it was the real thing... ( How many DMV people have inspected a 1969 Lola?? )