[klayfish]

Roscoe,
I could be wrong on this, because my field of expertise is mostly with cars that have existing titles. But I think what they are going after is the intent involved. I think that when you get the car, there is a "proper" and "legal" method in New Jersey to register the vehicle through their DMV. It's the fact of using TU to get the title quicker, or with a different year on it, or get around emissions, that is the problem. What they are arguing is that there is a legal method to register the car in your state, and you took intentional measures to get around it. Whether that itself is called title washing, I'm not sure. And again, I could be wrong. That is my guess.

Steve