Fantastic day here in Too Many Project's world
 

I bought a 1970 Chevelle SS Oshawa built basket case several years ago and was planning to get started on it 2 years ago. I dug out the title to get the Canadian Documentation on it and had forgotten I'd already done that and had a note with the title that the vin on the title was wrong. The PO had applied for a new title from abandoned and used 12 letters and digits from the trim tag as the vin. The state just accepted that and issued a valid title with 12 digits, instead of the Federal mandated 13 and none of them met the criteria of the Federal law. So, 2 years ago, I started a process to correct the title and that turned into a nightmare with the employees at the state not being trained to recognize I wasn't trying to change the vin on the title to a different car, but get an incorrect, non-valid sequence of letters and numbers changed to the valid vin tag. A week ago I, finally, talked with a long time employee at a satellite office that understood what I was trying to do and called the main office and explained it, again, and re-sent pictures I have of the car, the trim tag and vin tag. They said they would look into it, again, and contact the DMV lady I was working with on a decision. I never heard from her, so last Thursday I called her and she looked up my record and said a new title was sent to the address on file and it appears it is corrected with the real vin.... now I wait for it to get to the address on file, which is my sister's place, so the new title was sent there and I just talked with her on the phone and had her open the envelope. I now have a clean, clear, valid state title with the actual vin on it........:worship:
With the Camaro done to the point of paint, it will go in the back car barn for the winter and the Chevelle will be brought into the surgery room for a full, rotisserie, restoration.

Congrats!

Yea that’s awesome! Any pictures you want to share? Ss396 or 454 car ?

Sweet!!!

It's nothing special, with an L34 engine, chevyman. I do believe it was customer ordered as it was spec'd with buckets and no console, but has A/C and the gauge package.
The ONLY reason it's worth restoring from a rusted out shell is it's Oshawa certification.
I have some pics of when I picked it up and parts I put on it after, but when I get it in the shop next month, I'll document everything better and start a thread with lots of pics...:biggthumpup:

Glad you finally got this situation rectified.

Me too, Lynn, but I hadn't ruled out a trip to OK, if MN didn't get their "stuff" together...:laugh:

I remember your previous thread documenting all the hassles you encountered trying to get the situation rectified. Glad it finally happened!

Congratulations, great news. What color combo is the Chevelle?

Glad to hear it's resolved.

I've had a couple titles corrected in MN and both were very easy, but neither was as complicated of a problem like the entire VIN being wrong. One was a '25 Model T titled as a '24. Correcting was very simple, as showing the serial number on the title being May 1925 production couldn't have been 1924 model year. The other was a '55 Chevy with a "5" in the VIN where the St. Louis plant "S" belonged. Correcting the VIN was pretty easy there as well with pictures of the VIN.

Applying for title on Cale's 55 was also pretty simple. We bought that without any title. About $300 and a couple page form filled out got us a clean and clear legal title in my name in 30 days. :)

IF the PO had used the vin instead of info off the trim tag, this would never have happened. In talking with this last DMV person, she revealed the original title was court ordered and didn't go thru a DMV office, which probably explains why it wasn't caught at that time. I still think with the MN taxpayers, having spent over 200 million to get an undated, properly working title and license program, it should have caught the 12 digits instead of 13 for 1970. According to my son, who now does titling work for a dealership, and the lady at the last DMV, if the state titling computer doesn't detect 17 digits, it automatically declines the transfer, but they can still override the decline and enter a vin manually and it will accept it. Doesn't seem like we got everything that system should be able to do for the amount of money spent.

That's very good news. Must have been something with titles last week as I had one show up in the mail as well for one of my pickups

Originally white with Black vinyl top and interior. Leaning towards a modern bright Blue tint body with the 1970 Pearlescent interior. Of course, I may not live long enough to see that happen, since these restorations take me 7-10 years...:tongue:
I couldn't recall if it had stripes, so dug out the Vintage docs and sure enough, it was on of those "stripe delete" cars, with no D88 option on the build sheet...:wink:

This is great news,glad to hear this one is moving up the line in your garage.
Was it ordered with the RPO ZL-2 Cowl Induction Hood option?

No, Rick, it came with the standard bulge hood.
BUT, I do have 2 original induction hoods to chose from...:cool2: