CA - SPCN reg update

[Morgester]

Originally Posted by Got the Bug

Mr Morgester,

Which governmental entity is responsible for investigating illegal registrations and forwarding them to your office for prosecution? If the DMV's main office is investigating, then they are really auditing inconsistencies regarding how their own field offices interpreted and applied "full faith and credit" to register out of state cars with a smog exemption.

Thanks for posting and your efforts to keep the CC community up to date.

We are aware of inconsistencies within DMV field offices and are striving to put forward consistent, understandable, and workable rules.

I am unaware of any arrest or prosecution for registration fraud where the linage of a vehicle is disclosed and DMV choose to register the vehicle in a certain manner. The key for the consumer has always been disclosure. Once you tell DMV what it really is then it is DMV’s issue.

Where you get in trouble is where you know the vehicle was not built in 1965 but you write that down anyway and we all know there is only one reason to do that – getting around emission testing.

[vanoochka]

Originally Posted by Morgester

Where you get in trouble is where you know the vehicle was not built in 1965 but you write that down anyway and we all know there is only one reason to do that – getting around emission testing.

Mr. Morgester,

I'm going through the SB100 process, so this is just an FYI.

I purchased my car from an Arizona dealer, with no idea that there was even such as thing as the SB100. The car was titled in Arizona as a "1965 Ford Cobra". When I went to register it at the CA DMV, I told the clerk who took my tax payment that the car was actually a 1999 Superformance, not a Ford. She specifically told me they would use the model and year designation from the Arizona title. So, she wrote my California title as a "1965 Ford Cobra".

When I went to the visual inspection station during this same visit, there was a lot of confusion because the car has two VINs: one original VIN plate from the SPF dealer, and one Arizona VIN plate. My first set of paperwork from the above-mentioned clerk was written with the original VIN. However, a supervisor finally got involved during the visual inspection and decided to use the Arizona VIN. They then redid the paperwork, changing the VINs.

It was only months later that I found this website and learned about SB100. As mentioned above, I've decided to go through the process this year and only post the above to give you an accurate view into what is going on at the CA DMV field offices.

I knew the car wasn't a 1965 Ford Cobra, and they knew the car wasn't a 1965 Ford Cobra, but I have a California titled "1965 Ford Cobra".