I' not sure if you can still do it here (in Cal)--I guess you went in and
told them that you were appyling for a "lost title". I know people who had
picked up cars that were tagged for towing and then did this.
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: Kirby T. Kenyon <ktkenyon@borg.com>
To: Laura G. <savercool@email.msn.com>
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: top [was interior] colors
>I've heard that some of these cars were registered by the year it was sold
>and not the year it was made. I've been told, several times, that they
>made an '81 Spit but
>'80 was the last year. Their car was bought and registered in mid '81 so
>it was called an '81.
>
>Don't you just love the DMV? Now if anyone there could tell me the
>procedure in NY for getting a title to a vehicle when you don't know the
>name of the previous title holder...
>
>At 07:21 AM 5/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>Love those white topped round tails!!!
>>
>>SOmetimes the DMV does need explaining. A friend of mine just got a '76
>>Spit-he's puzzled because on the door plate, it says "Aug.'76"-but on the
>>registration it says '77.
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>Laura G. and Nigel
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
>>To: Scions of the Spitfire <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>>Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:18 AM
>>Subject: Re: top [was interior] colors
>>
>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 20 May 1999, Kirby T. Kenyon wrote:
>>>
>>>> ...my car is listed with motor vehicles as being green / tan
>>>> but the soft top is black. Does anyone know if they offered a tan soft
>>top
>>>> (hood) in '80? The PO can't remember it ever having a tan top. I
can't
>>>> imagine that the interior color would be listed as a body color for
motor
>>>> vehicle purposes.
>>>
>>>I never heard of such a thing, either. But I also don't think there ever
>>>was a tan top offered (under normal circumstances) by the factory. Black
>>>was the "norm," although ISTR white tops might have been available at
>>>least on the early Mk.IV models. I know white tops were a bit more common
>>>on the older round-tail Spitfires.
>>>
>>>--Andy
>>>
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>
>Kirby T. Kenyon
>ktkenyon@notnow.com
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