07-12-2009, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: TACOMA,
WA
Cobra Make, Engine: Everett Morrision FE 427 so 2-4s
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If you've been watching this game over the last couple of years you'll notice some of the manufactures are not around anymore. Things change. A lot of the manufactures do things differently than the other manufactures making their stuff perpritory. Their body fits their frame. Their hood, doors ,hood, and trunk only fit their body etc. Brands are merged. Brand names are sold to different builders that may or may not change the product from what is used to be. And to add to the complication, some manufactured brands may not keep a lot of records, have a fire, move, change their product and sell to a different builder (My situation). So watch that (in stages) stuff. ERA is one of those manufactures that has been around almost from the start. Right now their are alot of incomplete and finished car for sale. You could make youreself and and someonelse happy if you bought one of those cars. The saying "like a boat the two happiest days are the day you buy it and the day you sell it". Plus side, at least in my state (WA) these cars are now supposed to be dated from the date of manufacture of body and chasis ( If you have the documintation) The state officials are wising up try to make the value as high as possible for sales tax purposes (OH YES they want money). Their are local member that have found small DMVs that were working from old regs and let the cars be reistered as the date of the year it replicates. I think that route is drying up. The cops would prefer that so they would have a clue of what they were looking for. Anyway the car has to be emmission tested and pass of go through the waiver proscess every other year (even year dated on even years and odd dated cars on odd number years) untill it is over 25 year old and or if and when the registration changes to get liesence plates and tabs. For me that gives some older cars an added value. If you buy a not allready registerd car make sure you have receipts and some times they want documintaion of where major donor parts came from and of coarse the the MSO (Manufactures Statment of Origin). State registration will get cloudy if that isn't clear and it's all on you to prove all the critical points to get it registered and titled. Proscessing your paper work is just something that they could put off untill another day or get someone else to do. Remember all states want more money and have told any and all agents to get as much as possible.
OH OH I just found a renewl notice for my Cobra replica . It says I have to have it sniffed again and it's dew for new Plates (more money). I went through that last year. OH! it's last years(2008) notice, right time of year though.
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