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Subject:Re: Turbo diesel 5-speed DOKA Made Legal
From:Chris DeLong
Date:Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:48:44 +0000

Has anyone even asked the seller whats up? Or is this just pure speculation
and assumption? I have dealt with quite a few vehicles that dont have
titles. None of which were stolen. How do I know? Because I know people that
have access to DMV records and made sure of it. Sometimes things just end up
sitting for a long time and get exchanged a few hands over the years and
paperwork gets lost. Most of the time it is easily gotten and perfectly
legal. Did you know that vehicles in Vermont dont evne HAVE titles if the
car is over 10 years old? Only registration is needed for a title transfer
for a vehicle from VT.

So maybe we should take a step back and stop filling my inbox with
speculation until there is some actual REASON to suspect grand theft auto
with intent to distribute after paying a bunch of money to potentially
import and potentially stolen, potential vehicle used in a potential
hijacking of international aircraft in an effort to smuggle illegal
immigrants into Malaysia.

Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.522.5503
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA

>From: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
>Reply-To: Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Turbo diesel 5-speed DOKA Made Legal
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:57:09 -0600
>
>This is fraud, though. Registering a car from another country that
>might be stolen doesn't necessarily require criminal intent, as
>registering the Cobras did.
>
>Jim
>
>On Nov 8, 2004, at 8:15 PM, Chuck Baird wrote:
>
>>There was an article in Autoweek last week about the feds coming after
>>a
>>title service in Alabama for registering Cobra look alikes as real
>>McCoys
>>and even raiding Boyd Coddington's shop for valuations problems, etc...
>>
>>Again, you might get a title and you might not even get caught...but
>>is it
>>worth the chance??
>>