As I said in an earlier post I am taking my roadster for inspection. This will be the first street rod going through this shop but the inspector is a total motor head, bikes, hot rods, boats whatever. He gets it. He's built a few cars and bikes so he knows the pain that goes into a build. Not at all worried about his attitude toward Hot Rods. What I'm curious about is the receipts. If I have to copy all my receipts somebody is going to have to cut down a couple more trees for the amount of paper it will take to copy them. Do they really want all of them or is there a certain amount or particular ones they want to see??? I'm sure they are looking for sales tax and proof its not stolen but Ill be sending a pretty good sized box full if they want them "all".
Do you have a Pa. title for the car now? If you do it's a lot easier. I did my coupe years ago with no receipts. I am building a 29 pickup now ,and will have to start from scratch with it.
Beware your receipts will be used to figure out your registration costs. In other words, normally when you buy a car, the price is taxed at 6%. When you build a car, the price is the sum total of the parts (and labor costs) that you put into building it.
Not sure if this would apply to a Pa. process , but in NC part of the registration fee is a Highway Use Tax. When I registered my roadster , NCDMV had me get two appraisals of the finished car . The highest appraisal amount is then used to establish the H.U.Tax ( appraisal x 1.5 x 3% = HUT ) . I was told the build receipts were to be used to establish a replacement value with the insurance provider and not needed by the DMV. I had heard too many horror stories about NCDMV "losing" receipts/paperwork/titles/etc. so this worked well for me. Be very cautious of releasing any important receipts !! Stan
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