Do you have to change the title if you change a cab? - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

Virginia72SWB4X4 · 02-25-2004, 10:55 PM

I want to change over to an Air cab. What is the legal way to do it?
Do you just change the metal tag from your old (titled) cab to the new?
Or do you have to retitle the truck using the new cab?
Am I making this harder than it needs to be?
How is this done?

walker · 02-25-2004, 10:58 PM

I would just change the tags.

Virginia72SWB4X4 · 02-25-2004, 11:01 PM

Seems the simple way out doesn't it!!

adamls · 02-25-2004, 11:06 PM

What if you change chasis from a LWB to a SWB. Does the title have to be changed then?

Longhorn Man · 02-25-2004, 11:47 PM

For 100% legal job, contact your own state's DMV. Try to get a collector's branch of the office, or some one who knows specialty cars.
The VIN identifys the whole vehicle, and the vehicle is technicly the frame. The cab is nothing more than a body part. Be ready to show proof of ownership on both cabs, and if you can't prove it, then don't bother.
Personally, i say close the garage door and do it. Just don't tell anyone what you did. If you need your VIN looked at before you can get tags, then go get the truck titled now, and tear it down after.
This is what I plan on doing...but you didn't hear it from me.

super72 · 02-25-2004, 11:56 PM

I recently bought a 72 and stupid me washed the title along with my jeans. Well when I went to get a new title from the previous owner, I have discovered that the cab is not the same. So all I have now is a title with a Vin and a truck with a diffenrent Vin. I'm having a hard time getting it registered.

Hooter · 02-26-2004, 02:20 AM

if all else, drill the rivets out and swap the tags over , there are a few vendors that sell the correct rivets that you need

1970blazin · 02-26-2004, 01:26 PM

Anyone ever tried this:
http://www.titlesunlimitedinc.com/
They say they can LEGALLY get you at title for your classic vehicle. Just wondering if anyone has heard of, or tried this!
Diane

**CPNE** · 02-26-2004, 01:36 PM

From site linked above:

Quote:

...New Hampshire only requires titles for vehicles that are 10 years or newer. Therefore, in these states, ownership is shown by registration and bill of sale only. And, if you have the registration and bill of sale from a dealer in a non-title state showing that you have purchased the vehicle from that dealer, your state is REQUIRED to honor that paperwork and issue a title in your name. It is relatively easy to get the paperwork and it is completely legal. It is not necessary for the vehicle to be transported to Alabama or New Hampshire, and no visual inspection is required for them to register it to a dealer.

It's actually 15 years but basically correct, I've owned several cars I've never seen

Live Free or Die

(state motto)

72shadetree · 02-26-2004, 01:50 PM

id just swap the plate.the dmv here in martinsville va told me that you had to have both titles and a state trooper had to inspect it and you pass all that you get a reconstruted vehicle title with a new state issued vin#.....im sorry but a couple rivets is alot cheaper and who wants one of those screwed up titles

biglou55 · 02-26-2004, 03:33 PM

cpne If you lived closer to the mass. border you would be my newest best friend.( ha-ha) seriously I had a motorcycle done through a friend in hindsdale n.h. to bad he moved. I heard n.h. changed thier laws that it has to stay registered for six months in n.h before it can be sold in mass. this state is horrible to get titles straightened out. just change the tag and forget it.

02-25-2004, 10:55 PM	#1
Virginia72SWB4X4 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia Posts: 144	Do you have to change the title if you change a cab? I want to change over to an Air cab. What is the legal way to do it? Do you just change the metal tag from your old (titled) cab to the new? Or do you have to retitle the truck using the new cab? Am I making this harder than it needs to be? How is this done?

02-25-2004, 10:58 PM	#2
walker Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: north of Phx AZ about 30 miles Posts: 698	I would just change the tags. __________________ Andy,Phx AZ '67 C-10 (Ahhh, done at last. Well there is that disk front end I want to put in and...) "23 C-Cab-sold '48 Ford 8N tractor(still working) '67 Scout(Now on the road) '70 MG B.-sold

02-25-2004, 11:06 PM	#4
adamls Gotta Startem Early Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Amarillo, TX, USA Posts: 364	What if you change chasis from a LWB to a SWB. Does the title have to be changed then? __________________ 67 SWB In Progress, one piece at a time, maybe 3 years I will be finished

02-26-2004, 02:20 AM	#7
Hooter My other Love Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Castlegar B.C. Canada Posts: 4,085	if all else, drill the rivets out and swap the tags over , there are a few vendors that sell the correct rivets that you need __________________ Castlegar B.C.The great white North (Canada Eh!) Hooter_5@hotmail.com First generation Monte Carlo club pictures of my life

02-26-2004, 01:26 PM	#8
1970blazin Blazerless:-( Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Olympia WA Posts: 1,612	Anyone ever tried this: http://www.titlesunlimitedinc.com/ They say they can LEGALLY get you at title for your classic vehicle. Just wondering if anyone has heard of, or tried this! Diane __________________ 1970blazin 1970 CST Blazer-Orig. Dark Blue-SOLD Progress Pics of Blazer for sale

02-25-2004, 11:01 PM	#3
Virginia72SWB4X4 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia Posts: 144	Seems the simple way out doesn't it!!

02-25-2004, 11:47 PM	#5
Longhorn Man its all about the +6 inches Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Hilliard Ohio Posts: 2,693	For 100% legal job, contact your own state's DMV. Try to get a collector's branch of the office, or some one who knows specialty cars. The VIN identifys the whole vehicle, and the vehicle is technicly the frame. The cab is nothing more than a body part. Be ready to show proof of ownership on both cabs, and if you can't prove it, then don't bother. Personally, i say close the garage door and do it. Just don't tell anyone what you did. If you need your VIN looked at before you can get tags, then go get the truck titled now, and tear it down after. This is what I plan on doing...but you didn't hear it from me.

02-25-2004, 11:56 PM	#6
super72 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: South Carolina Posts: 207	I recently bought a 72 and stupid me washed the title along with my jeans. Well when I went to get a new title from the previous owner, I have discovered that the cab is not the same. So all I have now is a title with a Vin and a truck with a diffenrent Vin. I'm having a hard time getting it registered.

02-26-2004, 01:50 PM	#10
72shadetree KEEP ON TRUCKING Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: martinsville va Posts: 2,563	id just swap the plate.the dmv here in martinsville va told me that you had to have both titles and a state trooper had to inspect it and you pass all that you get a reconstruted vehicle title with a new state issued vin#.....im sorry but a couple rivets is alot cheaper and who wants one of those screwed up titles __________________ 72 cheyenne 2wd lwb 71 k20 sons bassett va

02-26-2004, 03:33 PM	#11
biglou55 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Greenfield Mass. Posts: 551	cpne If you lived closer to the mass. border you would be my newest best friend.( ha-ha) seriously I had a motorcycle done through a friend in hindsdale n.h. to bad he moved. I heard n.h. changed thier laws that it has to stay registered for six months in n.h before it can be sold in mass. this state is horrible to get titles straightened out. just change the tag and forget it. __________________ Certifiably crazy person Last edited by biglou55; 02-26-2004 at 03:44 PM.



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