Isn't this illegal, swapping vin tags Options

[GaroldShaffer]

This is an auction currently on ebay. Isn't it illegal to swap vintags? I hope this isn't someone here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Quote from auction: "This auction is for a title and all the VIN tags from a 1971 Porsche 914 that was parted out years ago. The title is clear and in my name. I will have it notarized so you can have it transfered to your name. All the ID tags come along with the title. You get what is in the picture no other parts. Great way to get a title for your parts car! "

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...5&category=6763

[Andy]

It's not illegal in Colorado, so long as you clearly own both vehicles... Which means you should have a title for the vehicle being swapped too... But sometimes the state creates situations where you need to do crap like this, the won't give a savage title because the registered owner can't be contacted, heck I still haven't transferred title to my 914 because I need to pass an emissions test to do it and it's in pieces - you also can't do a multiple transfer here so if I sell my project the new owner needs to get an emissions test done, then transfer title to me then we can transfer to him (or I get a bill of sale from the previous owner to a new one). That junk tends to leave vehicles in title limbo here and the title swapping has to be done.

Anyway we do it here for rock buggies and one-off off roaders, but then usually the rig is built from so many different vehicles you just choose one title and vin plate to put on it and "say" that's what it is - but often there isn't enough of any vehicle to call it one of another, it was built entirely from parts. This is much simpler than trying to have it registered (inspection process etc) as a custom built vehicle.

In Colorado this "is" a '65 CJ-5...

(IMG:http://www.poisonspydercustoms.com/buggies/dsc01529.jpg)

Not that there's a single '65 part on it.