[CA DMV] Marching toward #500.....

[RedBarchetta]

I saw this note on the CA DMV website over the past weekend "As of February 6, 2004, 407 sequence certificates have been assigned." Being that I had an "appointment" for March 1, I immediately went but had too busy of a work schedule to make time. My heart told me that March 1 would be here soon enough and all 500 numbers would be accounted for.

Well, I got a huge unexpected break in the work action this morning, so I made a beeline for the nearest DMV (paperwork in hand), and after 4 hours I now have sequence #2004-395 in my hot little hands. Now I just have to wait for the certificate in the mail, get over to BAR, and then I should be able to finish this exercise once and for all.

Words for the wise....the DMV is a whole lot smarter these days than they used to be. I tried to back door my out-of-state purchase registration through AAA, only to have it flagged at DMV for a VIN discrepancy and they pointed my azz straight toward the CHP. Right then and there I knew it was going to be by the book from here on out. The CHP office removed all the VIN tags and riveted their own to the frame. The officer was nice enough to let me keep the firewall tag (the Superformance tag with the Cincinnati, OH designation and COBRA insignia), though he was admimant that it can't go back on the car. Okay.....sure.

The website now states "As of February 10, 2004, 428 sequence certificates have been assigned." I still don't get why so many on this forum (including myself) have received sequence numbers below what the stated allocation has been posted as. They must be acorn stashing a few for the Boyd Coddingtons of the world.

-Deano