Phase II: CT Registration, Inspection, Emissions

[428street]

With the understanding that everyone has their own agenda here, I'd love to find out if you have a registered car with the year it was built (non 65/66), can you cancel the reg, get the year changed and get EA plates.

From this thread it seems that if you have a composite car and register(ed) it after 10/1/09 you definitely get the year designation (if it looks like a Cobra and you can document it) but the AE plates are still in question correct?

[Cashburn]

Originally Posted by 428street

From this thread it seems that if you have a composite car and register(ed) it after 10/1/09 you definitely get the year designation (if it looks like a Cobra and you can document it) but the AE plates are still in question correct?

Yes. We will be handling the process in a couple weeks for a customer and will see.

[stush]

So let me get this straight...

My FIA Cobra was registered as a 2006 Composite, does this mean that I cannot get the date of the car changed to 1965?

Stu

[Cashburn]

Originally Posted by stush

So let me get this straight...

My FIA Cobra was registered as a 2006 Composite, does this mean that I cannot get the date of the car changed to 1965?

Stu

Not unless you turn in your tags and re-enter the process again (with a new inspection).

[Joy]

We went down in Oct. after the law went into effect. We were told we could not change the registration that we currently have. Car remains registered as a 2009 composite.

[Joy]

I asked about turning in the tags and was told that once the car was registered, it would keep that status even if I turned the registration in.

[RENEW1]

According to my Town's tax assessor, there will be no $500 max value for any Cobra replica if it is not an original more than 25 years old. He referred me to section 14-1, definitions, of the motor vehicle code which defines a special interest vehicle as follows:

"Antique, rare or special interest motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle twenty-five years old or older which is being preserved because of historic interest and which is not altered or modified from the original manufacturer's specifications.
The wording in the changes in PA 09-187 read as follows:
"Except as otherwise provided by the general statutes, property subject to this section shall be valued at the same percentage of its then actual valuation as the assessors have determined with respect to the listing of real estate for the same year, except that any antique,rare or special interest motor vehicle, as defined in section 14-1, as amended by this act, shall be assessed at a value of not more than five hundred dollars".
It goes on to say that if a vehicle as defined by 14-1 does not have antique plates you can get the $500 limit if you prove to the assessor the car as defined by 14-1 meets that definition. Cars with antique plates do not need to prove that the car meets the definition of 14-1 if it has antique plates.
In summary, no antique plates, no $500 limit.

[MAGS427]

Just received my "supplemental" tax bill, since I registered the car in July 2009 the bill shows the car assessed at a 25% pro-ration of $7,880 @ 26.5 mills a wopping $209 tax. Looking forward to that amount quadrupaling this July when i would have had the car registered for a whole tax year.

I called the assessor to find out how the assessed value was determined she told me that they go on the internet to determine value, assess and then leave it up to the taxpayer to dispute if it is too high. In fact she admitted that they lean on the high side, it then depreciates 10% a year. So after 10 years I guess I will not have to pay anymore.

Fantastic I say, my neighbor with the $100,000 '69 camaro is only paying $186 a year. No one going on the internet to see what that is worth. Consistency is all I ask. I bet though that had i waited till after October and gotten the year on the title to say '66 composite i would have sneaked by.