I've never done it, no. Based on your story, would I? NO!!!!!
Mike
79 Spit x 2 (fighting city building inspectors and codes over a shed)
Mike Ross wrote:
>
> Just thought I'd share this information for those who were assembling there
> project cars from different sources.
>
> Since I am planning to mount my '68 Spit body tub to my '69 GT6 frame and
> install a TR6 engine, I was wondering how to legally title the car and if it
> would change my exemption status for E-check in Ohio.
>
> I called several agencies and this is what I found. First you must make an
> appointment with the division of the Ohio State Highway Patrol that oversees
> fraud and stolen vehicles to inspect the assembled car so they can verify
> that none of the assembled and numbered parts (engine, frame, transmission,
> differential, and body) are stolen. Then you make duplicate copies of both
> titles you might have for the body source car and the chassis source. This
> is for your records only. Take both original titles to the title office
> where they will be surrendered and a new title written for the newly
> assembled car (Spitfire-GT6, GT6 convertible, or whatever you want to call
> it). Here's the kicker. The new title says the automobile is manufactured
> in this year. So my 1968 Spitfire now becomes a 1999 Spitfire-GT6.
>
> You can install any engine, transmission, differential, etc. without
> changing the title as long as they were purchased from another vendor as a
> separate part. If they were taken from another titled car, that car's title
> would also need to be surrendered with the body source car's title. That
> implies that if you bought a chassis from a salvage yard, you could retain
> your original title; I would need to check this out. Since it didn't apply
> to my situation, I never asked about that scenario.
>
> In Ohio, if your car is over 25 years old you aren't required to submit it
> for E-check (emissions testing). Now that my Spitfire-GT6 was titled as a
> 1999 car, I wondered how that would affect my E-check exemption. I called
> the Ohio EPA and was told that if I could provide copies of the original
> titles and some proof that the year the engine was manufactured was over 25
> years ago, they would provide me with a permanent exemption from E-check
> testing. They said it didn't matter what I did to the engine to modify it
> (different carbs, EFI, Turbo, etc.) as long as the engine # proves the
> block was made over 25 years ago.
>
> I have a question for anyone out there who has done a similar conversion.
> Did you tell the Dept. of Motor Vehicles or is your car titled as the
> original body source?
>
> Mike
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