WA registration

SwiftDB4 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 10:10 PM

If your SP is already titled as a 1960's in another state you have no problem getting that transferred to WA. Before about 2000 titling replicas as the year they represented was legal. Since then the law changed to year of kit construction. The problem with that is you are subject to emission testing if you live in a testing area of WA.

Bartruff1 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by SwiftDB4

If your SP is already titled as a 1960's in another state you have no problem getting that transferred to WA. Before about 2000 titling replicas as the year they represented was legal. Since then the law changed to year of kit construction. The problem with that is you are subject to emission testing if you live in a testing area of WA.

So the problem is emission testing and the solution is to register it in the year the replica represents....ok....mine will be new so I don't know if it will be registered in Nevada or not. Good luck to you. They don't test here in Wenatchee...yet.

SwiftDB4 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 10:10 AM

If you are buying the car new you will get an MSO (Manufacturer's Statement of Origin). You take that to a licensing office for a title. Since you live in Wenatchee you don't have to sweat emission testing. I suppose WA could do a CA thing at some point and test the entire state, but pretty unlikely.

Bartruff1 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 11:00 AM

So...if I can bs them into registering it as a 65 that would be a good idea but if not it won't make any difference until I try to sell it in which case it would not be sellable in a market where they test...Saw Lance Saunders of SP on Speed this morning with GT 40 Amon replica. What a beautiful car even after all these years. I think, the best looking car ever.