Ford reintroduces the 1965 Mustang

[JoeyB]

In a nutshell, without a VIN, you can't title it, insure it or in anyway register it. No tags, inspection sticker, etc.

And by all means, feel free to ask, lord knows there are many things I don't know, so I have to ask as well.

So why would anyone sink that kind of money into a car they can't insure or register? Would it even be street legal?

[KevinD]

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[KevinD]

WTH???!! I had a nice long reply to JoeyB, and a "S" is all that came up?


Oh well, in short: in some states, it can be legal in certain instances to transfer a VIN, therefore, you could buy one of these bodies, transfer the VIN, finish building it, and have a modern legal, insurable 65 Mustang.

[Pony]

Yea, here I think it would just be a matter of having a state inspection and a paper trail of where you got the parts to transfer a vin and get a title.

[JoeyB]

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Just as I suspected!

[Noilly Pratt]

Oh well, in short: in some states, it can be legal in certain instances to transfer a VIN, therefore, you could buy one of these bodies, transfer the VIN, finish building it, and have a modern legal, insurable 65 Mustang.

What people in Canada do is get some rusted out hulk of a car that still has its firewall (and therefore its VIN#) and buy it, then "restore" that car (basically grafting on that firewall onto whatever car they want to title - usually it's a car that has "parts only" or "salvage only" status.) I think it's questionable legality-wise but hard to track if done right.

This is done with VW Campers because they stopped making them a few years ago and there's a high demand here for them. Also with high end cars like Lambos and the like.