certification
essexcoupe3131
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Hi All, got news today that the car has passed its certification for all the modifications, you have to rivet this plate to the car so when you go for a warrant of fitness, they check this 1st then go through the actual WOF, they are really strict here on modifications( a lot to do with the young kids and there pocket rockets and all the illegal mods they do) its not simple like you guys have it up there, you don't even have to have a floor from pics i have seen LOL
Iam still arguing with the Land Transport Authority here about registering the coupe as I can't prove this has ever been registered in NZ though when I got it in 84 it had a registration sticker dated 1945 and like a fool I never kept this , a lesson for everyone every where
I have had to do affidavits and come up with the original engine number which I had as I sold it to a friend of mine (Gary) who wanted it for his 31 Coupe, lucky these motors were only per that year
Iam hoping that they can track the old engine number as in the old days here they always took the engine number, so if car were stolen they stripped them down for the engine etc
lets see how good there records are, could be an impossible task
This has so far taken 6 weeks and I have a sympathetic guy up here, that says he believes what we have been telling him and has put a cover letter in to the LTSA head office, if I get someone in Wellington that's a stickler for detail, I could be up the creak without a paddle
Normally they just throw the application out, but he can see all the good work we have done and what condition it was in and we had to supply all the original photos from when we pulled it out of the barn, receipt for the purchase and even the registration of the cars that towed it to prove in 84 it was in the country, as they said that we could have just down loaded the pictures from the net. As this world wide is Billions of $ of business in car theft
We also had to supply the original paper work that I originally applied to the LTSA for the modifications in 95 and they signed off, I think this helping my case
He understands we wouldn't have spent a small fortune on this car if I didn't truly believe this to be the case
If I get rejected I will have to make all sorts of changes and I cant afford these especially at the moment, this could entail bust proof locks, different window wiper system, have to have the whole chassis re engineered and so on
I have been very fortunate that Iam working with a great bunch of guys here in Auckland that specialize in dealing with the LTSA and certification procedures and they are doing everything possible and going the extra miles to prove my case
Iam holding my breath and keeping my fingers xx d
Lets hope the new year brings some good news
Mike
Iam still arguing with the Land Transport Authority here about registering the coupe as I can't prove this has ever been registered in NZ though when I got it in 84 it had a registration sticker dated 1945 and like a fool I never kept this , a lesson for everyone every where
I have had to do affidavits and come up with the original engine number which I had as I sold it to a friend of mine (Gary) who wanted it for his 31 Coupe, lucky these motors were only per that year
Iam hoping that they can track the old engine number as in the old days here they always took the engine number, so if car were stolen they stripped them down for the engine etc
lets see how good there records are, could be an impossible task
This has so far taken 6 weeks and I have a sympathetic guy up here, that says he believes what we have been telling him and has put a cover letter in to the LTSA head office, if I get someone in Wellington that's a stickler for detail, I could be up the creak without a paddle
Normally they just throw the application out, but he can see all the good work we have done and what condition it was in and we had to supply all the original photos from when we pulled it out of the barn, receipt for the purchase and even the registration of the cars that towed it to prove in 84 it was in the country, as they said that we could have just down loaded the pictures from the net. As this world wide is Billions of $ of business in car theft
We also had to supply the original paper work that I originally applied to the LTSA for the modifications in 95 and they signed off, I think this helping my case
He understands we wouldn't have spent a small fortune on this car if I didn't truly believe this to be the case
If I get rejected I will have to make all sorts of changes and I cant afford these especially at the moment, this could entail bust proof locks, different window wiper system, have to have the whole chassis re engineered and so on
I have been very fortunate that Iam working with a great bunch of guys here in Auckland that specialize in dealing with the LTSA and certification procedures and they are doing everything possible and going the extra miles to prove my case
Iam holding my breath and keeping my fingers xx d
Lets hope the new year brings some good news
Mike
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Gee, and I thought it was tough to get a car titled and licenced here in Utah.0
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Well done Mike on getting the cert. Fingers crossed for getting through the next stage. Good luck.
Alistair0 -
Gee that sounds OTT. When I brought my ET8 car into NZ all I had was a car registration printout from the Norwegian Government that said the car was first registered there in 1933 and that was fine. In some respects it sound easier to register an imported car than register a NZ-new car.
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yes it definately sounds easierto bring a car in (next time), my brother brought in a 57 chev to nz and straight through in a week, I would hate just to start with a couple bits of old rusted out steel and call it a car LOL
If I had the old chassis nos this would help alot, but when we rebuilt the chassis these numbers were non esistant as it had had some repairs in this area and now under 5 layers of paint and I just dont want to go there in the of chance I can find it
Mike0 -
Hudson308 wrote:Every state has different requirements up here, Mike. Some are pretty easy, some are ridiculously tough. When I found a derelict '48 coupe here in western Minnesota, all I needed was an application for title, a bill of sale and an affidavit from the land owner explaining the lack of a title or registration for the last 50 years. Car is licenced & titled now, even though it doesn't run yet.
I know Massachusetts, and I think Ohio is the same, requires a 17 (16 or 17) alpha/numeric VIN number. Lot of luck finding that on, say, a 1914 Ajax or some sort that never went over 3 digits!!! A friend of mine ran into that in MA - so he took a bill of sale in with the serial number for a '52 Hudson like this - 00000007B123456 I don't remember the actual serial number now). They accepted it without a murmer.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN0 -
It's gone from the sublime to the ridiculous here. In '81 I bought a '50 Pacemaker from Dunedin, which had no registration details. All I did was go along to the nearest police station, where the friendly Mr. Plod ascertained that I looked honest, and gave me a note to say the car was okay for me to register. And in '95 when I finished rebuilding my '29 H 7 passenger sedan, out of three different vehicles, I just got a note from the local V.C.C rep to say that it was indeed a 1929 Hudson, and I went along and registered it at the Post Office. From then on the system has got just stupid. David Young had untold stress trying to get his '28 Essex coupe registered, even though he had the original windscreen sticker from when it was last registered. Some previous boffin decreed in about '97, that all old Registration data was not worth storing, so they destroyed it. So now it's like being in court having to prove your innocence. It brings to mind the "Yes, Minister" T.V. series, which are more like a documentary than a comedy.0
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Iam lucky at the moment, my guys up here have given me a set of compliance plates to run around on over the chrstmas period, gone passed plenty of cops and to date they have left me alone, I suppose its a matter of time before 1 pulls me over as there is only 1 on the rear and will want to get all predantic on me, then let the games begin, at least with compliance plates I can drive it any where as we just say we are just shaking the car down, if they were dealer plates you can only drive them from A to B
I have managed to put 500 plus miles on it so far and no grief
Mike0
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