What if?

The minute you were involved in an accident or traffic stop where the Officer checked the vin number, you would have trouble.

 

not worth it at all.

 

Your insurance company will bend you over if they find out, and if you get into an accident they WILL find out. Smart cops are out there too.. and if they catch you, your screwed either way.
You will then spend time making license plates, all because you swapped one on a car.
In otherwords, Don't do it, and Don't try it.
It just isn't Smart,
CS

With a Dealer Tag, yes.. technically you can drive almost anything that will fit on the street with a dealer tag, but I am sure there is risks to that if you do it for long periods of time.

 

Get yourself Dealer plates. No sales tax, no emissions, no registration fee's, no headaches.

 

What does it take to get "dealer plates" anyways?

 

A dealer's plate is your ticket to freedom.

 

"Get yourself Dealer plates. No sales tax, no emissions, no registration fee's, no headaches"


One of the most abused privileges in motoring...

The Dealer Tag.

 

Here in NJ it is not an easy task. You have to actually become a dealer and be licensed. It's not something that you can just go out and apply for and it's not cheap.

 

Erik
You can walk into a bank with a gun and ask for money. If you're caught you'll get a chance to meet some of the same people that you will if you're caught doing what you asked about. I'm sure these guys would love to have a nice young cell mate who once had 2 Ferrari's...

 

Erik-

I have had the highway patrol call me to verify the locations of a VIN on a 360. It is not just on the steering column and the door. It is also stamped into the passenger floor board. Next time you are by a 360 that you can look around in, slide the seat fwd. and there will be a lil flap in the carpet. Raise that and VIN # 3. There is also a vin stamped elsewhere, on the frame.

About driving on the street. I have heard of a certian person not on this board driving his 360c from his house to his workshop, and had no issues, but I bet he did not see any L.E.O.'s (law enforcement officers)

 

Keep in mind, as your profile indicates, you drive a suburban. This isn't really the target for a speeder in the eyes of an officer compared to a red sports car. Once you get into a sports car, you'll realize just how much of a target you are for onlookers, people wanting to race, people wanting to run you off the road, and even more... traffic cops.

 

This is not as easy as it used to be...in many states like Washington, it is actually quite regulated....and if you do not show sufficient "volume" in sales, they will yank your "dealer's license" and possibly go after you for "tax evasion" since in our state, the vehicle license is taxed based on the valuation of the car. In years past, many folks would get a dealer's license, just to avoid the excise tax on the car, and skip the emission checks and such. Though each dealer plate may cost $300 each per year, or even a bit more, that is nothing compared to the what the excise tax could amount to.

 

Napolis is correct.

The law would make no distinction between your charade and the guys who are stealing and chopping cars, or sending them overseas.

I think you'd be in felony territory pretty quickly.

Besides, I had already thought of it!!! LOL!!

Research the threads, there is a break point after which the Challenge cars are no longer street legal. Based upon mods that were made.

Quite a few 348s out there running, IIRC.
"Yea, officer, I paid extra for the yellow lenses on this 360NGT, I thought it'd be easier on your eyes at night"

 

I think the roll bar would be a <ahem> dead giveaway, and scraping the road 'low' would not help either, and you wouldn't be running slicks or the high temperature brake pad materials either. At that point, why bother?

 

What about registration stickers and all that gargle? An officer sees that you aint got one you'll get pulled over. I dont think he will really care if its a race car, he might not ever know. He'll just tell the boys 'Ya, I pulled a guy over in a Ferrari. He was going a little fast, nice car for it.'

 

If you have a 360 what's the point? Why not trailer your 360C to the track and really enjoy it.

 

No.

I had this discussion with the FCA at the 2000 meet in Dallas. Up to 1995, challenge cars were converted road cars. However, the challenge kit was never made street legal (and never would be for the number of cars that were made, it just wasn't worth the hassle). The argument can be made that even installing the roll bar from the kit would make the car illegal for the road. Not worth loosing a car to the impound or worse. Especially when some of them were brought into the country as race cars and never had all of the taxes paid on them.

The later 355 Challenge cars were never street legal, none of the 360 Challenge cars were ever street legal.

Jim is right, putting a dealer plate on a race car is one way to change your lifestyle.

 

Which states make roll bars/cages illegal? What parts of a Challenge kit would make a car no longer street legal? Keep the bumpers, the lights, emmission controls, the airbags, and have a set of DOT tires and I would assume that the mods would be no different than any other aftermarket hop up that the kid down the street did to his Civic. Thanks to the work of SEMA we can continue to mod our cars. Now the later 355's and all 360 and 430 Challange cars were never titled from the factory so they won't be legal(until some of the Hot Rod Laws go into effect, which were not even glimmers in legislators eyes in 2004 when this thread started), but the earlier cars, or once with the kits added should be OK, roll bar or not. Otherwise I guess every Jeep I have owned has been illegal.

Totally agree on keeping the dealer plates off of race cars. If the car is not otherwise legal, a dealer plate does not make it so, except for a possibly failing emissions system.

 

I met a guy at a track day who keep an old license plate on his 355CH and he says that he has driven it to home depot and back but that is really all you can do without getting in some real trouble, what are the street-legal 355CH going for and how many could be registered?