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[Mark IV]

....that the trouble stems from using a service such as "TU" and titling your car as a "1965" Face it guys, if it did not exist in 1965 it is NOT a 1965. Whatever ego trip is served by a '65 title is probably not worth the potential for disaster that doing this could bring upon you.

The manufacturers generally do it right, they issue a MSO for the kit chassis/body and assign a VIN to it. It is when you attempt to create a "CSX" type number and assign a 1965/66, etc. year to it that the trouble begins.

That said, I did use TU over 20 years ago to save time with a reg. I bought a car that had not been registered in New York for over 12 years. New York was unable to "find" the info due to the record over 8 years old being stored and not on microfilm or computer. TU provided a tilte and registration that I then turned in to NY and was granted a NY registration. I did not circumvent ownership or assign a VIN to a vehicle that IT DID NOT ALREADY CARRY!

While it does sound like 5 cars of Law Enforcement might have been overkill, without all the details I as a layman would not presume to make judgement upon the logic involved.

Moral? Don't try to make your car something it isn't. There is also a risk down the road with a subsiquent buyer going back after you for fraud claiming they bought the car based upon it being a "real" 1965 or whatever. Not that it was a "real, genuine Cobra" but rather that they believed that it was as a real 1965 model car.

Rick