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.

 

that cop is full of shiet, selling and or removing the vin numbers is a crime, not removing the dashboard what a ******* retard

 

they have to prove the intention of the removal was for an illegal purpose

 

Still don't see why the guy parked his racecar outside in a spot where he apparently wasn't supposed to park.

 

well if it is a public street it is illegal to park a car without a county or town sticker or inspection sticker or tags on public property, my brothers car was impounded because of this
the officer might have noticed the missing VIN after the fact

 

Removing VIN numbers from a vehicle for less than legal purposes is against the law. Removing your dash however is not. The only reason we use VIN numbers is to check to see who the owner of the vehicle is in the case of a traffic stop, illegally parked, etc. There's no such violation as "Driving Without Proper Dashboard Equipment. At least not in IL

 

dude.. the vin no on ure dashboard is just for safety purpose... older cars before 1990 dont have any on their dash.. i dun see them in jail or impounded... that is stupid man.. if i were u.. i would go over to the neighbour ask him to call a lawyer and sue the f*ck out of that guy.. and in the process.. u make some money.. hehehehehehhe.. but there is no law saying u cant remove it from the dash.. ask ure insurance company they will tell u that too.. if not why do they ask if u have ure vin no stamp on ure dash.. beside that is not they only way u can find the vin no... so hell wif him.. cheers