INDIAN 741 Supercharged...See you in 2011

[RidgeRunner]

OK, that's the essence and purpose but we know that doesn't work, at least on more expensive cars where just larger chunks, panels or subframes or such is replaced with the VIN plate. The bad guys is held back what? 2 days? no, in fact it is just messing with ordinary folks as usual, but what about my other questions? This was a case where the MDV couldn't accept a original VIN!!? What's with that? At a vehicle purchase of certain vintage am I required to have that inspected of an authorized officer or can I demand that from the owner before i pay up? I am looking at a possible delay of several weeks if things go as it did for Lars.

Different States have different regulations implemented and enforced by different departments, often interpreted differently by different people at different times within within those same departments.  At times those regulations can differ as a result of different reciprocating agreements between different States.

Here in Massachusetts it often appears collecting maximum sales taxes on vehicles trumps cutting down theft on them....  Back in the day dealers were allowed to, and often did, update the new year onto paperwork for unsold inventory of low production volume trucks and M/C's on Jan 1.  "Proper" titles for older vehicles purchased before the sales tax law went into effect and with Vin numbers before the standard number systems came into effect can get very involved [read as a real PITA].

As with your personal medical or any other legal issues, nobody knows your case as well as you do.  Do your homework and gather all the information and documentation you can for review before making any major decisions.

Good luck in having the best to deal with in keeping the paperwork straight in a timely fashion.

                          Ed

[wobblywalrus]

Lars, I sometimes use an "auto broker" to get the transactions done.  The brokers are professionals at this and they charge a fee for their work.  Typically the first visit the broker to explain what I want and the second visit is to sign all of the papers and to drive off in the vehicle.

   

[SPARKY]

Actually, the vin number on a Motor home has another twist---there are 2 VINS

One for the Ford, Dodge, GM or other OEM motorized chassis
One for the house part of the body that goes on the

the big problem is how this is treated from one state to another---very few back in the 70s did a very good job of "marrying the 2 vins"  I am sure this contributed to the problem  the vin 28T  tells me that this is a twin bed 28' model but nothing about the motorized part that would have originally been part of the FEDERAL system that required of the motorized part

I was a GMC motor home dealer in the early 70's a sold lots of chassis to various house part manufactures---we refered the various states as 2 titles or single title states the 2 title states were the ones that married the two vins

[wobblywalrus]

In 2008 some knucklehead ran into the back of the Triumph when I slowed down to make a turn from the highway onto a side street.  The frame loop that is attached to the passenger foot peg on one side was bent.  This "totalled" the bike.  No one wanted to try to straighten the frame due to liability concerns.  I took the insurance money, fixed the bike, and obtained a salvage title.  There was some omission in the paperwork on my part or a simple mistake by the Oregon DMV or my insurance company.  The DMV suspended my driver's license and they did not tell me.

Off I go to Bonneville with the Triumph in tow and my oldest daughter and youngest boy in the truck.  Happy and carefree I drive into Battle Mountain Nevada.  A bit fast, unfortunately.  An officer pulls me over for speeding and looks at my license.  He does not bring it back.  Soon all sorts of policemens arrive and they park all around me.  It must have been a slow day.  The ossifer comes back and says, "Son, your license is suspended.  (I was easily 20 years older than the cop.)  You are in trouble.  We would arrest you but you have children with you.  Follow me and I will take you to the city park.  You can camp there until this is straightened out.  If you make a run for it you will not get far.  Then you will be in big trouble, boy.  Big trouble."  I knew how to handle this situation based on my living in the southern part of the US during my youth.  I said "yes sir."

I camped at the park.  The kids had no part of this.  They wanted to sleep in beds in a motel.  I did not want to leave Bonnie, my bike, unattended.  A compromise was made.  The kids slept across the highway and train tracks in the Owl Motel above the Owl Casino.  I camped in the truck.  This was Saturday and Labor Day was on Monday.  It would be a long weekend.

Monday I sent all the bike papers I had to Rosie using my computer in an internet cafe.  She worked all night before this and wanted to sleep.  Instead of snoozing she went to the DMV and insurance company on Tuesday to try to figure out how I could get my license reinstated.  All this time my kids were learning about gambling and prostitution.  The Owl is a busy place during night and day.  I would read and watch the trains roll by my campsite.  Tuesday afternoon she got everything fixed.  I went to the courthouse on Wednesday morning and talked to the judge.  He saw a FAX that said I had my license and he let us go.  We were on our way to the races.

Anyway, Lars, you are not alone.  Problems with the DMV are an American ritual.  It happens to all of us.

[nanno]

Problems with the DMV are an American ritual.  It happens to all of us.

Not only American, they just don't call it DMV in other countries. 

@Lars: Any updates on the whereabouts of your little Indian ?

Cheers,
Greg

[Unkl Ian]

Not only American, they just don't call it DMV in other countries. 

isn't SNAFU the international translation ?

[wobblywalrus]

Lars, your record is in the list on the BUB website.

[octane]

Walrus Bo: Thanks !

Lars: Any updates on the whereabouts of your little Indian ?

Yep, it's back home, safe and sound.
I'm still here in Santa Fe, safe and sound.
Been doing a couple of weeks work on the MoHo.
I'm now officially a 'shade tree mechanic':



You see;
shade , tree ....the mechanic you can't see ...he's behind the camera


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[Nortonist 592]

Lars,  For an "older" RV it looks very handsome.  Will we see it on the salt next year?  But beware.  I had the sprinkler running under mine for almost two days after we got back from the salt.  Then I got under it with the hose to make sure.  Today when I went outside I saw a big chunk of salt under it!  Sneaky stuff that salt.

[octane]

Bill , my man ;
yeah it doesn't look too bad , does it ?!
I think it's a thing of great beauty !!! A seventies handmade aluminum-made-like-an-airplane
-grumbling-7.4-liter-V8-propelled-spaceshipsubmarinespacecraftmothership:



I've been working on it like a mad-man.
I'm sure it would bore most folks here silly, if I went through all the things I've done to it
and this is a landracing forum , not a Mo-Ho forum, right ?!
But just let me mention a couple of things to show what a dodgy lazy guy I am:
the dash-board really depressed me by the way it looked
so while the Mo-Ho was at the parking lot at the storage place I
masked it up at daytime



and after the attendant-guy left the place in the evening
I painted it, with a wrinkle-finish spray-can in one hand and a flashlight in the other.
Quite exciting to come back next morning and check what the he** I've done.
Made new 'bezels' using door-edge-'chrome'-plastic-mouldings from Pep Boys
and some chromy' stuff from Home Depot's plumbing department to
pimp it up



Before



After




....and a BUNCH of other stuff, after I moved it up to my friend David's
place , up in the mountains outside Santa Fe

Hedman headers.... heat-wrapped the HT leads



Heat and sound isolated the 'dog-house'



A million thing to the interior.
Clad the dog-house inside with rubber etc.



...painted parts of the exterieur





....worked over the rest of the interior
and a bunch of details



....and a thousand other things from fixing the windscreen washers to
get the electric steps working.
All with great help from David.

I love it love it love it !

NOPE, I won't bring it to the Salt as such,
but I'll park it at the bend in the road next year.

[Nortonist 592]

Dang Lars!!!!   Dazzling!!  Park it well away from my heap!!  Can't say I blame you for not taking it on the salt.

[MC 1314]

Sweet!  Good Job Lars..

[MC 1314]

Beautiful job Lars. Where did you find it? All I find are big bricks!

See ya at Bub in 12.

Bob

[Stan Back]

It'd look better if you can get the grafetti off the upper sides between the windows.

[octane]

Ouuups. Sorry about that re-re-post.
Either the forum software, or my computer ( or my brain perhaps )
screwed up.

Thanks Bill !

Bob: I found it on EBay where it didn't sell for the minimum prize.
Contacted the seller , who turned out to be a German guy,
and worked out a prize.
It was made by Airstream in 1977, and basically it's constructed exactly
like an Airstream trailer but
sat on a GM,  P-30 chassis, with a Chevy big-block engine.
For the first few years they manufactured motor-homes,
they called them ARGOSY. From 1979 ( I think it was ) they called them Airstream Motor-Homes.
I've always been completely fascinated by those things and the way they were made:

VIDEO

Not exactly like mine but a later ( and bigger ) model....note the 'fuselage' at time-line 2:03 (!)

It's hand-made and mostly assembled with screws and rivets
so what's made by hand can be fixed by hand ...right !?

Of course they cost a fortune back then. Mine cost close to $30.000 in 1977.
That was a LOT of money in 1977.
Saw one in Southern France with my own eyes some 25 years ago and been lusting
for one ever since.

Stan: yep !...the 'graffiti' is horrible. Will attend to it later on.

...

OK enough MoHo stuff. Sorry to interrupt the programmed schedule.