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Post by Avenger on Mar 3, 2023 16:37:40 GMT -5
This is another act of doing something so I'm not just doing nothing. When GM was developing the 4th gen Corvette they anticipated that the gov't was going to require airbags in these cars. So they took the space that would have been a glove compartment and planned to put an airbag there. Well, good 'ol Ronnie Reagan put the kibosh on more regulations, and well, now what? GM basically put a dummy airbag in the dash as a place holder. The Corvette crowd calls it "The Breadbox." A not-great pic of it, but you can see it is a rather prominent feature of the dashboard: Now here we are forty years later and between corrosion and the nature of plastics one of the clips that attaches the breadbox has pulled out of it. Since we're in here anyway I'm going to reattach it. Hopefully it will prevent it from wiggling and squeaking even more. Broken clip and holes in breadbox: Since the plastic was cracked and the rivets had already pulled out once, I made a backing plate to sammich it all together: After attempting to get the backing plate between the upholstery and the plastic I made a modification: This worked a bit better, and after slathering all the cracks with plastic epoxy I re-riveted the clip in place. Hopefully bonding all that good stuff together. I think I also came up with a hack to make installing the breadbox easier. We'll see how it all goes when we get to that part.
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Post by Avenger on Jun 2, 2023 20:42:07 GMT -5
Minor update coming soon, but in the meantime I keep skulking around the Corvette forum, and as we said earlier all these forums are about the same. Hmmmm,... What could those be? 🤔
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Post by Avenger on Jun 14, 2023 12:38:48 GMT -5
This wasn't the minor update I was aiming for, but I finally overcame my irrational fear of dealing with the government and filed the title paperwork. Normally I would have just done it and been done, but there were issues. It was mostly age and document related, but I knew there would be issues. Well, there were issues. I tried going through Triple A because they do DMV services and I considered that they might not be quite as attentive to detail as DMV. Well, there were issues, different than I anticipated tho. Apparently, the car has been unregistered for so long that it's no longer in the DMV database so AAA couldn't get it into the computer system. On the plus side they were able to make me an appointment with DMV in a half hour. The DMV was fifteen minutes away. So, it didn't turn into the lost-time debacle that I had feared. **Side note: I have to say that DMV has actually turned into an organization that it is practical to do business with. With online appointments, downloadable forms and all, it's pretty much walk in and walk up to a counter and get your business done. Friendly and helpful people too. An absolute revolution from when I was getting my driver's license. That was a model of bureaucratic arrogance and incompetence. Considering that the counters in the old DMV were almost five feet high and four feet across to keep the "customers" from climbing over them and throttling the workers you know something was f-d up. Anyhoo, I went to the government monolith and handed over my paperwork. They had the same problem. That leads to a phone call to Albany. In case you're not from Nueva York, Albany is the state capital and the home of DMV headquarters. So, the lady comes back and says it may have to get sent to Albany, but she continues working the keyboard and says "Oh, it went in!" She still indicated that it was going to be more involved, but I paid the fee and the sales tax and got the paperwork underway. Hopefully there's no super eagle-eyes up in Albany. Now I sit back like this guy:
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Post by skycheney on Jun 14, 2023 19:38:46 GMT -5
This wasn't the minor update I was aiming for, but I finally overcame my irrational fear of dealing with the government and filed the title paperwork. Normally I would have just done it and been done, but there were issues. It was mostly age and document related, but I knew there would be issues. Well, there were issues. I tried going through Triple A because they do DMV services and I considered that they might not be quite as attentive to detail as DMV. Well, there were issues, different than I anticipated tho. Apparently, the car has been unregistered for so long that it's no longer in the DMV database so AAA couldn't get it into the computer system. On the plus side they were able to make me an appointment with DMV in a half hour. The DMV was fifteen minutes away. So, it didn't turn into the lost-time debacle that I had feared. **Side note: I have to say that DMV has actually turned into an organization that it is practical to do business with. With online appointments, downloadable forms and all, it's pretty much walk in and walk up to a counter and get your business done. Friendly and helpful people too. An absolute revolution from when I was getting my driver's license. That was a model of bureaucratic arrogance and incompetence. Considering that the counters in the old DMV were almost five feet high and four feet across to keep the "customers" from climbing over them and throttling the workers you know something was f-d up. Anyhoo, I went to the government monolith and handed over my paperwork. They had the same problem. That leads to a phone call to Albany. In case you're not from Nueva York, Albany is the state capital and the home of DMV headquarters. So, the lady comes back and says it may have to get sent to Albany, but she continues working the keyboard and says "Oh, it went in!" She still indicated that it was going to be more involved, but I paid the fee and the sales tax and got the paperwork underway. Hopefully there's no super eagle-eyes up in Albany. Now I sit back like this guy: Based on the value of the car, why do they care at all? It makes no sense. If it was stolen, who would want it back? It seems to me that they should just take your money and give you a plate. The extra work will be for nothing as far as the state is concerned.
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Post by Avenger on Jun 14, 2023 21:50:53 GMT -5
Okay, first problem here....
You're thinking logically.
Next?!
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Post by yachtsmanwilly on Jun 15, 2023 6:40:05 GMT -5
Up here its still as simple as regostering a John Deere for the north 40... as long as the sale price for the sales tax box is checked. Sveral cars and smaller boat have netted papers in hand in 4-5 business days. Not to go too far, but it "leans" to restoring my faith in beurocracy; sort of. On the left coast. it must be declared IN-OP and titled as such, otherwise, you could be liable for fees covering the last 50 or so years, what a crock!
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Post by Avenger on Jun 15, 2023 13:53:14 GMT -5
The DMV in the people's Republic here isn't bad about this stuff in that way, it's just bureaucratic. I understand they don't want people washing a stolen car, and they have no way of knowing if it's really a POS or some rare collectible. One thing that may be working in my favor is I only went for the title, not the plates. That would have been monkey-wrenchier.
It's not going to be on the road any where's near soon, so the "normal" 6-8 week wait for the title (plus "may take a little longer" because complicated) isn't an issue, and I can register it the minute the title shows up in the mail. Which will probably be right around when it's roadworthy anyway.
P.S. DMV sent me a survey about my experience. I was very complimentary, because they really were very fast and courteous. They asked if I had any other comments or suggestions. I asked if they could send someone over to the courts to revamp jury duty the way they did DMV. I'd rather deal with DMV a hundred times than deal with the way they treat jurors once.
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Post by rsmith on Jun 17, 2023 7:44:57 GMT -5
Here in the FREE state every one of us rednecks has 10 trailers typically we tag one and move the plate to whatever trailer we’re dragging. Only can pull one at a time anyway. I bought a new boat trailer in 04 when I bought the Dusky sinker. Got a certificate of origin when I bought it but never registered sat in the hangar until last year when I repowered it. Been towing it around town and figured I’d better title it. I ended up paying some late fees and had to prove I paid sales tax when I bought it from the manufacturer. But the DMV here is pretty understanding about this stuff.
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Post by Avenger on Jun 17, 2023 15:57:54 GMT -5
They're not entirely awful here with trailers either. One could probably get away with swapping plates here. But you do have to maintain an annual registration.
In the PRoNY, car's license plates are tied to insurance. No insurance, you have to surrender the plate. I don't think it's the same for trailers or motorcycles, since they're usually limited use type of things.
While I realize it's part of the state/big corporate racket, it does significantly reduce the number of people who can run around ruining peoples lives and property without being able to compensate them.
I've also heard tales of states where plates are kind of "free range" and people get bit by selling a car and leaving the plates on. Then it ends up in trouble, and the trouble comes back to them.
Nothing's perfect.
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Post by rsmith on Jun 18, 2023 10:43:19 GMT -5
That’s an airplane issue also. Had a friend sold his Bonanza to a guy back in the late 80’s during the drug runner days here in Florida. Guy never changed the registration. 3am one morning DEA kicks his front door in. Locks him up takes his dogs to humane society. Seems they found the plane somewhere with a few seeds and stalks in it abandoned. Took him 20k and 6 months to prove he sold the plane. AOPA recommended the seller send in the paperwork to FAA don’t depend on the buyer. People are so happy to get the money they don’t think about the liability of not making sure the registration was transferred. Same scenario could apply to boats too. AOPA said even though you have a bill of sale ownership really doesn’t change legally until it’s reissued by the gumment
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