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Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:40 am

56OvalRHD wrote: kidvintage wrote: Robs '52s wrote: Very cool story. DMV fees for 23 years of back registration #-o

unless it was on non-op of coarse.

No such thing as 23 years of back fees in California. The car falls "off the computer" after 6-8 years of non-activity in California state computer systems. Once the car is "off the computer" there are NO back fees due!!

And you lose the black plates, you get your nice shiney new ones in the mail once you re-register the car :cry:

Please correct me if I am wrong. OK, you get the new registration and new CA plates. Then you order personalized CA plates with the letters and numbers of the black plates. Then you get the new CA personalized plates and put on the old black plates. Will this still work ??

Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:46 am

Someone posted in another "California Plate" thread that the DMV caught on to that trick and it can no longer be done?

Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:22 am

Unless I see some pics posted, I'm calling BULLSHIT on the original posters story :^o

Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:52 pm

EA57RHD wrote: Unless I see some pics posted, I'm calling BULLSHIT on the original posters story :^o

Me too i'm afraid.

Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:33 pm

EA57RHD wrote: Unless I see some pics posted, I'm calling BULLSHIT on the original posters story :^o

Smells like some bull$h!t around here :roll:

Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:51 pm

oolie63 wrote: So here's the story...I purchased a 1956 Bug in 1985 just after graduating from high school. I moved to Califorina in mid 1986 and left the car with my father. He had a friend from church who had a body shop and storage room. No official arrangement was made, just a gentelman's agreement to store the car and repair some rust. Over time the two lost contact with each other and the shop closed. Long story...short. I returned home several years later and got back into the VW scene with my kids. We purchased a 63 Bug and joined a club. Well...last year at a local show an old friend from back in the 80's saw me and asked what ever happened to my Oval. I told him the story and he went on. About 20 minutes later he returned and stated "I can't not tell you this...I know where it is and it's still in your name" He and others had been trying to buy it over the years but couldn't. The next day I found it. 3 blocks from my house, buried in a warehouse covered in dust...with most of the body work done....It's now in my driveway :D

That is awesome!! Regretfully sold my 57 last year due to a crappy financial situation, regreted it every day since. This gives me hope....

Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:46 pm

56OvalRHD wrote: EA57RHD wrote: Unless I see some pics posted, I'm calling BULLSHIT on the original posters story :^o

Smells like some bull$h!t around here :roll:

Man I hope its a true story...I have been looking for an oval find forever and this shit keeps me going.....

a 63.....but no oval. Photobucket shows it as "myoval" under the user name, anyways....heres to hoping the car is real

Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:33 pm

Going on week #4... Take some poloroids and slapem on this thread, give a kid $10 and tell him we need photos, and to upload them.. Reading the thread at first.. I got a little choked up...kinda felt like when I watched the old black & white movie "The Champ" ..yeah you know..at the end when the kids cryin..yeah like that.. Wheres the pics!! :2gunfire:

Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:41 pm

Undis wrote: Amazing story!!! Post up some pics...

X100, Need some pics!!!!!

Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:28 pm

oolie63 wrote: So here's the story...I purchased a 1956 Bug in 1985 just after graduating from high school. I moved to Califorina in mid 1986 and left the car with my father. He had a friend from church who had a body shop and storage room. No official arrangement was made, just a gentelman's agreement to store the car and repair some rust. Over time the two lost contact with each other and the shop closed. Long story...short. I returned home several years later and got back into the VW scene with my kids. We purchased a 63 Bug and joined a club. Well...last year at a local show an old friend from back in the 80's saw me and asked what ever happened to my Oval. I told him the story and he went on. About 20 minutes later he returned and stated "I can't not tell you this...I know where it is and it's still in your name" He and others had been trying to buy it over the years but couldn't. The next day I found it. 3 blocks from my house, buried in a warehouse covered in dust...with most of the body work done....It's now in my driveway :D

Almost a month and no pics. Fantasy land is a nice happy place. :roll:

Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:26 pm

Maybe his father put him in storage, and will be found by his own son in about 23 years, covered with fairy dust. :wink:

Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:02 pm

Ricardo 64 wrote:
[/quote]Maybe his father put him in storage, and will be found by his own son in about 23 years, covered with fairy dust. Quote:

:lol: :lol: I stand by my earlier post.....Bullshit story :^o

Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:19 am

Nice story though =D>