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Alabama farm tag now attached to the A3 at last!

Wreckerman893: You and the clerk are right, there are no recent changes to the Code of Alabama, this whole things grew from an interpretation at the Dept. of Rev., Motor Vehicle Div., of Code of Al 32-8-42 and the State being unaware of the NHTSA exemption for military vehicles. My A3 had a 6...

Struggling with posting for some reason but CRISIS OVER! MANY THANKS DDOYLE, COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOUR INFO! Got the email this morning, my argument in the previous email: Mr. Hester: Based upon the response I received from NHTSA and the information you provided, we have...

WHEWWW! Just took a call from NHTSA's George Stevens, I'd left a message when all this got started. Tried to explain what the situation was and all he could say was that I'm not the Army, that the exemption is ONLY for the Army and ALL these trucks are to be sold with "OFF ROAD USE ONLY" on the...

General DDoyle may have saved the day, he got me pointed at Federal Code for NHTSA regs 49 CFR 571.7(c) which reads: "c) Military vehicles. No standard applies to a vehicle or item of equipment manufactured for, and sold directly to, the Armed Forces of the United States in conformity with...

ddoyle: Mr. Merritt and I had a nice, civil conversation. He's a bright, funny and busy guy who related some interesting things that have happened over the years auto/regulation-wise and explained there was nothing that could be done on his level, this is either an Alabama legislature thing to...

ldj1002: Yeah, I could lie but there's a potential downside, a 'material false statement' about title issues is a Class C Felony... I've got enough to worry about without getting in a bind with the bureaucrats up in some big building in Montgomery. ABN173: The NHTSA guy's point was that...

Just spoke with Mr. **** Merritt, Import and Certification Division, NHTSA and it is the NHTSA's postion that there is NO Certificate of Conformity with DOT standards for ANY military vehicle and NO such thing as a waiver for ANYTHING. In a nutshell, any military vehicle must comply with...

Yes, the issue is the 1996 date of manufacture and the VIN on the dataplate, pre-'75 and they wouldn't care, proper VIN and they wouldn't care, over 20 years old and they might not care. However, I'm not prepared to try the 'backdoor' route of using a frame serial # or changing dataplates...

Kohburn: That's because there are no titles at all for pre-1975 vehicles. Dumptruck: It's not the local office that's the problem, it's the title people in Montgomery, wherever you apply it will be the same deal. I spoke to Mike Gamble, uberboss over titles, and he says this is the law plus...

Here's the Code of Alabama, #3 is the problem. I'm told the legislature intended this to regulate grey-market imports and all those people trying to tag everything from ATVs to golfcarts. Remember this is Alabama, where Count Rossi registered a Porsche 917 (!) back in the day so he could drive...

Imagine my surprise when I try to title and register my A3 to get all good and legal: I have a valid FL title (where my GL billing address was) but am now told that the head of titles at Al Dept of Rev has decided ex military (and postal) vehicles MUST have EPA and DOT Certificates of Conformity...