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Answer Guy
Paved roads, just more needless government spending...I pick up my mail in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
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YELLOWJACKET wrote: Question (Allen)-what will-would-could happen-if-when the law-ranger etc see a titled 68 Vw (not spec const.) with manx body -w non vw(subee) motor.. Than You in advance!...Todd & Y. Jacket....
From a practical standpoint, you have a similar situation with a person who has a highly modified Model T Ford Roadster or "T Bucket" with a Chey engine. I think a law enforcement officer would go with whatever your DMV Registration states as model, make and year. A friend has a fiberglass buggy body on a 1963 VW pan. His DMV Registration describes it as a 1963 VW CONV (convertible). My 1969 Baja Bug DMV Registration describes it as a 1969 VW SD (sedan). I believe, unless you have an old vehicle that is registered by motor number only or a combination of motor number and frame number, having an engine other than the original type made for the vehicle is incidental if your vehicle is smog exempt. Perhaps Allen will tell us more.
Ed - Orange County - 63 VW Dune Runner Buggy - 69 Baja Bug
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Dual registration is interesting, however, I'd want to talk to several people that have gone thru the process of... 1) getting it, and 2) getting rid of it. I'd also like to see the paperwork involved in both directions and... When is it appropriate for a smog inspection? That was pretty loose wording, wasn't it? Just my $0.02 worth
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As stated above If you have a street legal buggy Leave it that way I made the horrible mistake of taking a street legal buggy and making it a green sticker buggy and then trying to make it street legal again It was worse than your worse nightmare I ended up being declared an SPCN vehicle of the year I brought it back to the street, which was 2001, and thus thrown into all kind of smog issues. Fortunately I escaped that through a Letter of Sequence exemption. What I have discovered and many others here have as well, what the official DMV rules pertaining to buggys are not understood by the local DMV employee, and it can make your life miserable. Glenn in San Diego
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