Re: Frame VIN transfer to another frame
Mike, there is the "letter of the law", and there is the practical implementation of daily law enforcement.
Law enforcement officers that are concerned about a frame VIN that doesn't match the body VIN plate on a 40 year old car don't have enough to do...probably the result of overstaffing. In Texas, if somebody ain't getting murdered, raped, assaulted, robbed, or a lot of people getting conned, then law enforcement is pretty much going to let the parties work it out themselves. Unless someone is complaining really loudly, you would never be found in possession of an altered frame VIN in Texas, because they're NEVER checked!
Now, if you moved to Texas, law enforcement would have to do a mandatory inspection of the body VIN plate and the vehicle before it's eligible for registration in Texas. It seems that would be the perfect time for law enforcement to find out whose swapping frames and other such components. But, apparently, they don't have time for such rigourous checks...there is no crawling all over, and under, your car checking VIN stamps; they check the body VIN carefully and dat's dat.
In the previous post, it seems highly unusual that a lawyer/judge that probably doesn't know **** from Shinola about cars, would pick the frame VIN over the more widely accepted and required body VIN as the determinant of ownership...something stinks in Denmark right there (referring to the judge, not the poster). But, if the frame were in bad enough condition to replace in the first place, then it would seem prudent to "format it's hard drive" before cutting it up for scrap.
Fortunately, such attention and adherance to the "letter of the law" would be way down on my list of reasons for not wanting to live in California, but then that's me.
Mike, there is the "letter of the law", and there is the practical implementation of daily law enforcement.
Law enforcement officers that are concerned about a frame VIN that doesn't match the body VIN plate on a 40 year old car don't have enough to do...probably the result of overstaffing. In Texas, if somebody ain't getting murdered, raped, assaulted, robbed, or a lot of people getting conned, then law enforcement is pretty much going to let the parties work it out themselves. Unless someone is complaining really loudly, you would never be found in possession of an altered frame VIN in Texas, because they're NEVER checked!
Now, if you moved to Texas, law enforcement would have to do a mandatory inspection of the body VIN plate and the vehicle before it's eligible for registration in Texas. It seems that would be the perfect time for law enforcement to find out whose swapping frames and other such components. But, apparently, they don't have time for such rigourous checks...there is no crawling all over, and under, your car checking VIN stamps; they check the body VIN carefully and dat's dat.
In the previous post, it seems highly unusual that a lawyer/judge that probably doesn't know **** from Shinola about cars, would pick the frame VIN over the more widely accepted and required body VIN as the determinant of ownership...something stinks in Denmark right there (referring to the judge, not the poster). But, if the frame were in bad enough condition to replace in the first place, then it would seem prudent to "format it's hard drive" before cutting it up for scrap.
Fortunately, such attention and adherance to the "letter of the law" would be way down on my list of reasons for not wanting to live in California, but then that's me.
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