ultraclyde wrote:
Even as an enthusiast, I'm not sure what the big deal is about crushing the car(s). Sure, it was in a popular movie, but hell, it was even the hero car, just a bit player. Okay, it's a pretty cool sports car, but so what? Many of those die at the hands of the owner every day.
Is crushing one car really depriving me of some cultural experience? If it was the only one of it's kind, yeah, maybe so. But it was just a production car with a bad paintjob. I won't miss it. If he was playing shady with the registration/VIN/whatever and got busted, great. I'll pull the handle.
I just don't like it. Doesn't feel like government "of the people" looking out for my best interest. Feels draconian. Obey! Or we will sieze your positions and destroy them! Yeah, land of the free, it ain't. Tell me I can't drive it on public roads, okay. Tell me I can't title it, okay. But take it away and destroy it? No thanks.
Javelin wrote:
93EXCivic wrote:
DILYSI Dave wrote:
The cost effective solution is to quit being a bunch of dicks with laws that are so retarded that otherwise reasonable people feel no moral tug when breaking them.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!! I wouldn't swap VINs but I would have no problem doing various things to dodge around title laws (like using Alabama's abandoned vehicle process or "selling" cars to non-title states [not a problem for me since I am in AL]). This includes imported cars. I know of a '96 Renault driving around in TN with a title.
To Dave: Really? You feel no moral tug to VIN swapping? What if it was your stolen car getting the new VIN?
To Civic: I wouldn't say that. The guy in the article got busted for saying the same kind of stuff on the internet. Wouldn't want to read about you going to jail over asinine internet comments.
We're not talking about stolen cars. We're talking about retarded bureaucratic hoops. To clarify though - car thieves should be hung by their balls until they die. Cars should be able to be registered / imported / etc. with reasonable and simple procedures.
