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Well, I finally mailed the paperwork to get my truck licensed today. This is attempt number two. Last year I had started the ball rolling but wasn't aware(and neither was my numbnut insurance agent) that the truck has to be "fully restored" in the eyes of the DMV. I had included pictures of the truck as it sat with old paint, and even though I had notated that the painting process was in the works, I was rejected, due to the truck being "unrestored". This time around I made sure my photos were perfect and there is now no way(knock on wood) they can reject me for the truck not being "restored". Hoping by about mid February I'll be free to navigate. Wish me luck.

see your in PA, and laws vary from state to state, but what about all the other POS vehicles running up and down the road ? I assume that they were always licenced as they deteriorated and this was not an issue. Tom

Nick, I know owning and driving a vehicle in Pa. is a lot of work. My grand parents, parents and now daughter and family are/ were all Pa. drivers and auto owners and I understand what you are posting about, but when you finally are thru screwing around with the state you will be able to use the term Fully Restored with the state issued paperwork to back that statement up.

In any event friend, good luck with governmental Hydra.

Tom @ Snake River wrote:see your in PA, and laws vary from state to state, but what about all the other POS vehicles running up and down the road ? I assume that they were always licenced as they deteriorated and this was not an issue. Tom

Noone comes out to check that Joe Schmoe is maintaining his antique, so its very easy to see a "POS " cruising the streets with an antique tag. I doubt the antique laws are really enforced. Its the process involved to get the antique plates that are the PIA. Once that hurdle is reached and overcome the rest is pretty easy I imagine.

Carter wrote:Nick, I know owning and driving a vehicle in Pa. is a lot of work. My grand parents, parents and now daughter and family are/ were all Pa. drivers and auto owners and I understand what you are posting about, but when you finally are thru screwing around with the state you will be able to use the term Fully Restored with the state issued paperwork to back that statement up.

Yep, I'll let you know in about 6 weeks...

SOTVEN wrote:In any event friend, good luck with governmental Hydra.

Sotven;

Thanks brother...

SOTVEN wrote:In any event friend, good luck with governmental Hydra.

I'm not certain how many other forum members know who or what Hydra was, but the reference certainly fits the situation!

Isn't a hydra a mythical sea creature with a bunch of heads that would terrorize ships of old?

You got it in one, Nick! A many-headed monster with poisonous breath. As soon as one head was chopped off another would take its place. Does sound like the government at work, doesn't it?

Lifer wrote:You got it in one, Nick! A many-headed monster with poisonous breath. As soon as one head was chopped off another would take its place. Does sound like the government at work, doesn't it?

Yes it does, only in the case of our DMV all the heads are one wrung above brain dead.....Think of the lowest of the dregs of society, and you've just then seen our lowend gov't employees.

Our local DMV is kinda like a Hydra with ALL its heads up it's butt!

Indeed my friends the Hydra (Lernea Hydra in full) was a mythic monster of the old that was living in the ancient lake Lerni, (in Greek, Hydra =she that stays in the water, Lernea = from Lerni). Killed by the mythic hero Hercules as one of his 12 feats, to be forgiven for killing his own familly. Indeed the creature had nine heads, and as Hercules would cut one, two new ones would immidiately grow in its place. Thinking on his feet, he asked his nephew Iolaos that was with him, to quickly burn each wound on the neck as soon as Hercules would cut the head off, hence killing the monster this way. After that, Hercules sunck his arrows in the Hydra's greenish blood that was poisonous, to make them more lethal. Today's meaning for "toxic" derives exactly from what Hercules did, since "toxo" is Greek for bow. Here comes the interesting part. Jumping from mythology to epic history, during the Trojan war, Hercules' nephew Filoctitis, shot and killed Paris (Achilles' killer, and Hector's youngest brother) with one of his uncle's arrows, since he had inherited his quiver. Where recorded history crosses mythology...

I go thru a lot of trucks, and one of the best ideas I ever had or took from someone else was to sign up for AAA. The rates are low and if you bypass having to go to DMV once it is worth it in my opinion. Our local office has a very friendly staff, comfy couches to wait your turn on (a very short, if any, wait) and even a smog check station. I can't say enough good things about AAA for getting title and registration taken care of. And, you get the roadside assistance too. May be worth checking into. Kurt

Kurt;

Hoping this will be my only time through this(of course never say never, and if I ever buy another MV it could happen again), but thanks for the tip.