[TR] [EXTERNAL] Re: VINs

[Wbeech@flash.net]

Brian,
It comes down to do you want to be right, or get a title and tags for your car.  Bill

Cactus Jack drinks coffee black......BWS

> On Nov 7, 2019, at 6:35 PM, Brian Kemp <bk13 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 

 This was the mid 1990's.  I talked to the CA DMV on the phone before buying the car and in person when I went to transfer the car.  They insisted that the Oh was not valid in a VIN and it had to be a zero.  Realized reality didn't matter with the DMV and it wasn't worth trying to be right with the facts.  Since my car has be a CA car since new, I'd guess when initially titled in 1972, they marked it as a zero.

Brian

On 11/7/2019 4:27 AM, Reihing, Randall S. wrote:
> How does changing the "O" to a "0" on the paper title, match the "O"  on the riveted metal plate still on the car itself? How is it legal to have a title with a VIN that does not match the VIN on the vehicle's riveted metal plate?
> 
> Randall Reihing
> 1960 TR3A
> 1959 TR3A
> From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Brian Kemp <bk13 at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 8:50:45 PM
> To: Andrew Uprichard <auprichard at uprichard.net>; 'Triumphs' <triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [TR] VINs
>  
> My California TR6 title also ends L0 - L zero.  I told them it should be an Oh for Overdrive, but they said I couldn't have an Oh and I was wrong.  Not worth having an argument with the DMV.  The insurance company was fine with whatever the title said.
> 
> Brian
> 
> On 11/6/2019 1:13 PM, Andrew Uprichard wrote:
>> I just went to get a title on a TR which came with a factory overdrive.  The old title appropriately ended “LO”, but I was told that “Os” and “Is” are no longer acceptable in titles.  So I had to change the VIN (on the title) to “L0”.  Then I had to call the insurance company to explain the same story to them and have them send me a proof of insurance with “L0”.
>>  
>> Anyone else come across this?  Maybe it has been going on for years:  I have 4 cars with overdrive, but this was the first factory one.
>>  
>> Andrew Uprichard
>> Jackson, MI
>> 
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