It has been my policy over the past 40 years to go out to a smaller
community to get some title changes completed.
I find that the clerks in the city (Dallas TX) are sticklers for details and
that the Tax Office Clerks in smaller communities are more autonomous and
easier to deal with.
I recently changed the title on an Alabama registered Airstream trailer in a
small town and the folks in Dallas Tax Office had already rejected all my
possibilities for a transfer from their point of view. One phone call to the
Alabama DPS and the deal flew through like a bird.
You may need a friend's mailbox in that small town for your new title
mailing address.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "jimt" <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: HELP!

> He may be talking the certificate of origin.  These are when a vehicle is
> brand new and sold for the first time.  Here in the US it is sent to the
> registering agency to record and get the first title. My little trailer
made
> in taiwan even came with one.  I just was told that in many European
> countries it is kept as part of the vehicles paperwork.  You may be able
to
> contact VW (not sure what section) and get the "birth certificate" for the
> vehicle and use that.  I have seen where many people have been getting
those
> things on older bugs and buses.
>
> jimt
>
> On 8/15/05 8:03 AM, "Michael Vickey" <vickrail@VELOCITY.NET> wrote:
>
> > The only logbook I have received with my VWs is for the dealer
> > maintentance stamp and mileage/date when service was performed. This
book
> > contains a manufacturer's label that indicates VIN, body style, engine
> > code, paint code(s) and lists the options included with the vehicle.
Date
> > of manufacture is not part of the information on the label.
> >
> > The same label is duplicated on the forward wall, in front of the
steering
> > wheel.
> >
> > The only location I have ever seen "date of manufacture" is on a plate
> > attached to the "B" pillar on the driver's side.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >