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<blockquote data-quote="Riley P" data-source="post: 190700" data-attributes="member: 2"><p>I grew up with my dad owning a 65 Convertible....white with a red interior powered by a 365hp 327 with side pipes.....I can still smell the exhaust in the garage after he fired it up. He sold it to buy a mini-van when I was 9 years old so my dream of taking it to my high school graduation was crushed. But, that got me into Corvettes. My uncle restored Mopars, so that got me into the 60's cars. Out of high school, I bought a low mile 350 4-speed 1981 Camaro as Corvettes were too much money. At about the same time my dad bought a 66 Chevelle with a 396 and powerglide. It didn't take too long to put a 4-speed in that car. In 2005 he was thinking of selling the Chevelle, so I bought that off of him. A few years later when I was in my last year of engineering in 2008 my friends decided that after our last final, we would head down to Vegas on a road trip and one them kept pointing out how cheap Corvettes were in the states. I started looking and as our dollar was above par, if I sold my Camaro, I could almost slide right over to a C5. I found one in Vegas, struck up a deal with the owner and put the Camaro up for sale. To this day, I'll never forget how good the Corvette looked coming down the strip in the Vegas sun as the owner came to show me the car. My test drive consisted of driving right to the DMV!. After it was purchased and parked at our hotel, I thought I better check the vin on the car to make sure it matched the title just to be safe (yes, I should have done this before) but it turned out an A on the title was supposed to be a 4! I wasn't sure what to do as I didn't want to risk my car being stuck at the border, so I spent the next day at the DMV trying to get a new title. After a whole bunch of time in the office and checks with the agents going out to see the car, the title change was approved. Little did I know they couldn't print it on site but told me it would take 8 weeks to get a new one sent to me, plus if I didn't pay for an out of state title, the request simply wouldn't be processed! This scared me a bit as this wasn't just out of state, but out of country! So the next day was spent at the library looking for places near the border where I could store my car and finally found one in Billings. It was a great trip to Billings but not so great going back home without a car that I had paid for. Fast forward 2 months later and the same day I sold my Camaro, my title showed up! The next weekend a friend drove me to Billings. I went straight to the DMV!......but it was closed on the weekend and my friend had to work, so they went home. Monday came, I walked to the DMV with my title in hand so I could get a permit to drive my car home only to find out permits were issued at City hall!.....long walk to City Hall, I got to the front of the line. The clerk looked at my title and asked if I had registered the car and told them no. They stated they could not give me a permit for a car that wasn't registered.....I was about to lose my mind and can't remember the details, but I think they took pity on me, knowing I just bought the car, was from out of country, so they processed the permit. Sweet! Permit in hand, keys in hand, I walked to the storage place to fire up my car and the battery was dead. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😆" title="Grinning squinting face :laughing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f606.png" data-shortname=":laughing:" /> The folks at the storage place were great and let me use their battery charger. After 4 hours of waiting, I turned the key and the old girl fired up. What a breath of relief. It was a great drive to the border. Got the the US side and looking through my papers, they asked why the dates between the title, and sale and everything were so far apart so I explained the situation. They went out to the Corvette and came back to inform me that the vin was still wrong, but by the look on their face, I knew they were joking, plus, I knew they were wrong as I checked both a million times but acted like I was shocked and worried to humour them. Then they smiled and told me to have a good trip and enjoy the car. Finally getting home, I registered the car and put the license plate on the back. The sense of relief of putting that plate on the car can't be over emphasized. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> So, I finally had my vette at 31 and have enjoyed every mile since.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riley P, post: 190700, member: 2"] I grew up with my dad owning a 65 Convertible....white with a red interior powered by a 365hp 327 with side pipes.....I can still smell the exhaust in the garage after he fired it up. He sold it to buy a mini-van when I was 9 years old so my dream of taking it to my high school graduation was crushed. But, that got me into Corvettes. My uncle restored Mopars, so that got me into the 60's cars. Out of high school, I bought a low mile 350 4-speed 1981 Camaro as Corvettes were too much money. At about the same time my dad bought a 66 Chevelle with a 396 and powerglide. It didn't take too long to put a 4-speed in that car. In 2005 he was thinking of selling the Chevelle, so I bought that off of him. A few years later when I was in my last year of engineering in 2008 my friends decided that after our last final, we would head down to Vegas on a road trip and one them kept pointing out how cheap Corvettes were in the states. I started looking and as our dollar was above par, if I sold my Camaro, I could almost slide right over to a C5. I found one in Vegas, struck up a deal with the owner and put the Camaro up for sale. To this day, I'll never forget how good the Corvette looked coming down the strip in the Vegas sun as the owner came to show me the car. My test drive consisted of driving right to the DMV!. After it was purchased and parked at our hotel, I thought I better check the vin on the car to make sure it matched the title just to be safe (yes, I should have done this before) but it turned out an A on the title was supposed to be a 4! I wasn't sure what to do as I didn't want to risk my car being stuck at the border, so I spent the next day at the DMV trying to get a new title. After a whole bunch of time in the office and checks with the agents going out to see the car, the title change was approved. Little did I know they couldn't print it on site but told me it would take 8 weeks to get a new one sent to me, plus if I didn't pay for an out of state title, the request simply wouldn't be processed! This scared me a bit as this wasn't just out of state, but out of country! So the next day was spent at the library looking for places near the border where I could store my car and finally found one in Billings. It was a great trip to Billings but not so great going back home without a car that I had paid for. Fast forward 2 months later and the same day I sold my Camaro, my title showed up! The next weekend a friend drove me to Billings. I went straight to the DMV!......but it was closed on the weekend and my friend had to work, so they went home. Monday came, I walked to the DMV with my title in hand so I could get a permit to drive my car home only to find out permits were issued at City hall!.....long walk to City Hall, I got to the front of the line. The clerk looked at my title and asked if I had registered the car and told them no. They stated they could not give me a permit for a car that wasn't registered.....I was about to lose my mind and can't remember the details, but I think they took pity on me, knowing I just bought the car, was from out of country, so they processed the permit. Sweet! Permit in hand, keys in hand, I walked to the storage place to fire up my car and the battery was dead. 😆 The folks at the storage place were great and let me use their battery charger. After 4 hours of waiting, I turned the key and the old girl fired up. What a breath of relief. It was a great drive to the border. Got the the US side and looking through my papers, they asked why the dates between the title, and sale and everything were so far apart so I explained the situation. They went out to the Corvette and came back to inform me that the vin was still wrong, but by the look on their face, I knew they were joking, plus, I knew they were wrong as I checked both a million times but acted like I was shocked and worried to humour them. Then they smiled and told me to have a good trip and enjoy the car. Finally getting home, I registered the car and put the license plate on the back. The sense of relief of putting that plate on the car can't be over emphasized. :D So, I finally had my vette at 31 and have enjoyed every mile since. [/QUOTE]
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