by JimmieD » Mon Dec 02, 2013 7:58 am
In Kalifornia 'Legal' seems to be a gray area on cab swaps. I did a full body swap of '78 D-200 body onto '77 W-200 chassis. Went to a small local DMV office and spoke with the guy there who happened to be the honcho on Serial Number stuff, like 'Compliance Officer' or something, explained what I had done. He was going to make an appt with me to come inspect vehicle and do the actual body tag swap with some 'special' small pop rivets. I offered that I already had the pop rivets and the vehicle body tags etc. and was there any problem if I did it myself?
"Well no, I guess not..."
Thing was I had to fill out paperwork for the '78 vehicle that it had been scrapped. I used some of the parts from leftover '78 chassis and then 'Scrapped' the remainder. I could have legally sold all of the '78 parts too. The '77 W-200 remained in DMV records and '78 D-200 was then a 'Scrap Vehicle' in DMV records.
1967 Dodge D-100 Town Wagon - CPL 858 4BT, HTT Stage II/H1C 16cm/56cm turbo, '93 CTD I/C, 32K spring, minor fuel tweaks, milled head, NV4500, 1 ton springs, '72 D-200 Frt. axle w/ Air Lift bags, 4.10 Dana 60HD, F/R swaybars, Tom Woods shaft.
'90 W-350 gasser...