I am going to post this on all forums.
The other day my stupid neighbor parked his race car outside on the street(public) and covered it with a car cover.
Well, that same week it got towed and a vehicle theft recovery team agent came by the my house asked me if I knew anything about this vehicle. I said "yeah it's the guy up street who own's it". He replied "that vehicle has no VIN numbers and no plates". I said "yeah, of course it doesn't have any plates cause it's a race car!?" He said that it's a felony if you remove or deface any vin numbers and this vehicle didn't have any dashboard where the vin should have been at. I told him that the vin number on the firewall and on the door jam is still in tact it should be fine. He said "No, removing a dash with a vin number is a felony". I'm like WTF is this idiot thinking! I told him that a bunch of my racer friends remove their dashboards as well as my own race car! He's said "Just better make sure that I don't catch them!" On the same note this whole conversation was occuring in my garage with my friends Integra being gutted out for full race. He looked inside my friends car and said "I could arrest you for removing your dash". In my mind I felt like kicking him in his throat for being so stupid! I told him "don't worry I have the dash in the back of my friends Suburban(we were just about to take it to the junk yard).

Please tell me that this Officer is full of it cause that's what my SF cop friend said. By the way this was DALY CITY cop too as well.

 

Well, i live TN and I have a '93 Civic CX with a GSR dash conversion(w/no VIN). I got pulled over and the cop looked @ me like WTF! I said, "The VIN is the firewall", and popped the hood. The cop ran it and didn't say anything about it. Look @ it this way, if they go to the races, they'll be taking alot of cars. Like Lisa Kubo, L'Natural, Skunk2 and AEM's. So, I think that's BULLSHIT!

 

So, what do you think this guy was trying to do?

 

CA cops/task forces. Gotta love em. I don't.

-Rod

 

Can't say. . . .

 

Be a complete JACKASS!!!!!!

 

WORD! There might be some truth in what he said but most of it was probably BS. If you have at least one VIN on the car, why would it matter if you have three others in different parts of the car. Oh well, I dont try to understand Californias Vehicle codes/laws.


[Modified by egghead, 12:06 AM 11/29/2001]

 

Will - That's facked up dude!

-Cliff

 

sounds like he's trying to throw his weight around.

 

I got harrassed for a similar situation in VA. I cover the VIN number on my dash because I heard people can just write down my VIN, go to the dealer and get copies of my key made without question. How much easier can stealing a car be if you have the keys to it? The cop was bitching at me because it was covered up and he was going on about some nonsense like he can arrest me. I understood where he was coming from because for all he knew, it could have been stolen. If it is a race car ONLY, then that cop is full of BS.

 

Keep your race car off the street.. or put it on a trailer

 

Let's bring this subject up with SEMA!

 

Exactly. On that note, if your car was in the garage while you were gutting it and that cop was talking about arresting you, spit in his face.

 

Total bullshit. The cop can tow the car for being on public property, but not because the VIN number was removed from the dash.

Think of it this way. What do all the guys that have 63 and older cars do? There's no VIN on the dash in any way. It's on the door jamb and firewall.

Loser cop who hates imports. At the point he said he'd arrest you for removing the dash, I would have told him to step off the property.

 

.....because:

-when ya run red lights, the camera takes a pic of the vin number as well as your plates and your beauty face shot. incase you dont have plates, they got yout vin. also, ever got a parking ticket in a new car?