Looking at a used Cobra IN CALIFORNIA that is currently registered as a 196X. Issues?

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Originally Posted by hauss

All I can say after many trips to the DMV and the highway patrol inspection office, it is legally registered as a 1965 Shelby cobra . Yes it was a pain in the a$$. No spcn I did not need one car is legal and been registered and insured in ca over 3 years ! Now with all that said 75K and IT can be yours . A legal to drive in CA. Cobra! It seems that the DMV wants dealers and builders to get the spcns I purchased the car from a good friend and neither of us are builders or dealers.

All this means is that you and your friend participated in an illegal motor vehicle transfer, registration, and possibly sale! As multiple others have already indicated, registering a motor vehicle in California as any year other than the year the vehicle being registered was actually manufactured has been defined as a fraud in California.

California places the responsibility for completely and correctly registering a vehicle specifically on the owner of the vehicle. Of course, owners do not have to comply. However, when they do not and when they also get discovered, California has a much more aggressive portion of the code that comes into play, notwithstanding any of the usual objections to the contrary that may come to mind — including the profession of ignorance of the law or any profound representations of innocence, including the ever-popular not-my-fault logic.

You are playing high-stakes poker at a table where the ante is a check you don’t want to write and possibly can’t afford to write — and you have been repeatedly informed/reminded of this.