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Well, here in So Dak I know guys that built hot rods the old fashioned way and are driving them with license plates on them!! I mean really original stuff with nothing but scrounged parts. I'm thinking one guy in particular that welded up the bullet holes in the T sedan body that he found in pasture and cut old leaf springs to build his from scratch front suspention. Strictly NO buck but not a rat rod. I'll have to ask him if he had to get it inspected or if he could just license it.

Kurt.
 
In my understanding, in an old-fashioned hot rod, you used an existing chassis with the factory chassis numbers as a basis to build your car. Most state vehicle departments only care about the motor number and the chassis number, as long as you have those you can do what you want. But how do you go about putting an approved and registered number on a home welded chassis? It can be done, anything can be done, but state workers hate to move out of their usual routines, so it will not be easy.
 
Just getting back here and I think you are right, Westfield. Not being a hotrod guy they may just come up with numbers off existing chassis but I'll bet there is a lot of fudging to make things work. As mentioned, where there is a will there is a way and I would'nt be scared off by some bureaucrat trying to justify his job!

Kurt.
 
Here in Michigan we can get an assembled vehicle title and VIN assigned. I would guess it's the same in other states with all the kit cars out there. I've thought about building one of these myself using spitfire drivetrain. If it came down to it though I have spitfire tags and titles from cars I've parted out if I needed to.
 
Motor numbers....maybe....for emissions, a casting number.
States USED to title by motor number, got to be a real problem when motors had to be changed, so they went to what we now call a VIN.
49-53 Flathead Ford and Merc, and older....probably to 32....no motor numbers. On older flatmotors, there was a number on the transmission, but not the motor.
 
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