by foobar12345 » Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:04 pm
[quote="dp35"]
I can't believe you waited until you have the car to start asking these questions. But its your deal, to each his own. I hope it works out for ya.
To anyone else reading this that's considering buying an Atom, and doesn't know how it will be handled in their state's DMV - start asking questions ASAP, to high level DMV people at the state level (not just counter people or even office mgrs.). That way, when you get your car, you won't go to the local DMV office and make a huge mistake, like maybe saying something like "I just bought it in Oregon, turn key", which I know in my state would end your possibility of getting the car registered.
Best of luck Bottoz.
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In Ohio, the BMV has an independent operation by county. Like any BMV they are not prepared to deal with "exotic" circumstances outside of their preprogrammed rote. As others have noted, this can work to your advantage or disadvantage depending on how well you can contain the urge to strangle. The nice thing is that since they do not coordinate information well, if you strike out in one county you can go to any surrounding county and plead your case with a slighty modified story.
A few years ago, I purchased an Alvis Saracen Armored Personnel Carrier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Saracen. It had never been titled, and as you can see by the picture, is quite provocative to the random civil servant. It took me nearly a day, but I got it titled and registered. I had to visit three counties since I caused such an issue in the first county they called one of the adjoining counties to be on the lookout for this weird registration request. It was a fun toy while I had it and could drive through and over anything. I took it out on a few crawls of downtown Cleveland/Columbus and it always drew a crowd.
Initially, I was worried about registering my Atom, but remembering back to my experience with the APC I felt like I could get anything registered if I found the magic words to say to the BMV employees
-Brad
[quote="dp35"]
I can't believe you waited until you have the car to start asking these questions. But its your deal, to each his own. I hope it works out for ya.
To anyone else reading this that's considering buying an Atom, and doesn't know how it will be handled in their state's DMV - start asking questions ASAP, to high level DMV people at the state level (not just counter people or even office mgrs.). That way, when you get your car, you won't go to the local DMV office and make a huge mistake, like maybe saying something like "I just bought it in Oregon, turn key", which I know in my state would end your possibility of getting the car registered.
Best of luck Bottoz.
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In Ohio, the BMV has an independent operation by county. Like any BMV they are not prepared to deal with "exotic" circumstances outside of their preprogrammed rote. As others have noted, this can work to your advantage or disadvantage depending on how well you can contain the urge to strangle. The nice thing is that since they do not coordinate information well, if you strike out in one county you can go to any surrounding county and plead your case with a slighty modified story.
A few years ago, I purchased an Alvis Saracen Armored Personnel Carrier [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Saracen]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Saracen[/url]. It had never been titled, and as you can see by the picture, is quite provocative to the random civil servant. It took me nearly a day, but I got it titled and registered. I had to visit three counties since I caused such an issue in the first county they called one of the adjoining counties to be on the lookout for this weird registration request. It was a fun toy while I had it and could drive through and over anything. I took it out on a few crawls of downtown Cleveland/Columbus and it always drew a crowd.
Initially, I was worried about registering my Atom, but remembering back to my experience with the APC I felt like I could get anything registered if I found the magic words to say to the BMV employees :)
-Brad