Looking to purchase a Cobra

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For the most part a title that says the car is a "1965", and we know a replica is NOT, is little more than smoke and mirrors. It can cause more trouble and legal problems than it's worth. If someone says it's registered as a 1965-66 and "hypes" about how cool that is, just blow it off, it don't mean squat to the DMV. Unless, the DMV can figure out how to charge you with FRAUD, then it has meaning!

Excalibur what do mean " it don't mean squat"? Have you noticed how A LOT of states are starting to copy California's lead? It was just posted here the other day that Massachusetts is allowing these cars to get registered and titled after years of saying no. Haven't you heard of all the fellow CC members that get their cars together only to find out they can't even drive them? Lets see, a fellow buys a brand new Superperformance here in Georgia (bought it from a dealer in Ohio), goes to the tag office (you have to pay the taxes on it before you get a tag), goes to pay the taxes (you have to get a Vin for the car MSO is only one part of it), gets an officer out (gets a vin for the car), goes back (now it's got a 2009 vin), NOW has to pass emissions as a 2009 car (do you think an FE will pass with a carb, NO), now he has a car that he can't get a title for, can't register the car, no tag, he is screwed! That hardly is "smoke and mirrors". I agree the cars are not from the 60's and that they are from a "Kit" form, but if some one is trying to sell a kit as a "REAL" 65 Cobra, ya that's a problem. BUT, I haven't heard of a DMV denying a car that was previously registered, then changing it as a later year than it was already registered. I might be wrong but how can they determine what another state's DMV has already set forth?

All I know is in our part of this rock, my taxes are $26, my car is emissions exempt, there is no advalorum taxes all because it is registered as a 65'. I had a guy from France once wanting to buy my car. The ONLY way he could get a "Kit Cobra" into the country was if it was titled and registered as a 65/ 66! Is it really a 65/66, heck no but that's what the government wants to meet their standards??
Didn't mean to get on a soap box but that does hold some credit in some parts of this country. Moving on...