Weird!

As long as the numbers match, I wouldn't worry about it, When the cops checked my number they didn't even ask what it was.

Hi Fellers. I finally trust the Sharkey car enough to drive it more than a mile. It's running very well and keeps running! So before I am tossed into our jail (former outhouse), I thought I'd go ahead and get plates for it. So I dug out the title and registrations, all of which give the VIN number as CD254311, and called our Butch to see about a metal plate as the one on the car is missing. Then just now and for no reason I looked at our site and at the "Identifying Your Crosley" data sheet and found that there was no such number listed. The car is listed on the original title as a 1950 Crosley roadster. What do you guys think ?

I wish I could remember the details on the car. I know it was made from a sedan but my memory said it was a CC. In any case, I know the maker's wife told us that he had to have a new title done after he "made" the car. He may have intentionally done it with a number that was outside the range of regular production so that he did not duplicate an existing car. I'd ask Butch to make a plate that duplicates the numbers you have and let it go at that.

I have the opposite situation. A vin tag but no title. A friend who is a state cop ran the number thru the national data base and it came back that it was not stolen or any other problems, so I need to go to DMV (or can download off the 'Net)get the proper form, the cop fills it out and I take it back and apply for my title. Indiana is pretty easy to work with. Now there is a caveat. Some guys building hot rods and stuff apply for what's known as a "built car " title . But if you do then the var has to have new , up to date safety equipment. You want to stick with the title you have.

IN MOST STATES YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TITLE WITH PROFF OF SOME KIND THAT YOU OWN WHAT THE TITLE SAYS TO THE JUSTICE OF PEACE OF YOUR COUNTY AND THE JP ISSUES A SUBMISSION OF EVIDENCE OVER THE PARTIES THAT EVIDENCE IS OF GOOD CAUSE AND ISSUES A COURT ORDER FOR DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ISSUE A TITLE IN YOUR NAME "REALLY VERY SIMPLE AND NO COST" AND IN A CASE OF TITLE IN HAND ON A VINTAGE THE TAG BUTCH AND WANDA IS THE WAY TO GO ANDY

PER MY LAST LINE I AGREE WITH TIM

Yep, he probably done the same thing that thousands of young men done back in the day. Build a car from various scrap yard cars, and then title it as a "built car". Geoff, I'd bet somewhere on that car the serial number is already stamped. Frame, or somewhere.