[Chaplin]

Robert-
Thanks for the info. However, as everything with DMV goes, I have heard some conflicting information.

First, I heard that they will NOT send an inspector to your house. I was told that they used to do that, but no more. I was told that you have to make an appointment to bring the car in and that either (i) you have to trailer the car to 1 of the 3 "special" inspection stations or (ii) DMV will issue you a temporary 5-day registration so that you can drive the car to one of the 3 inspection sites. If you car fails the engineering inspection and you can remedy the defect within that initial 5 day temporary registration period, you can drive it back and try again. If it can not be fixed within that first five days, it has to be trailered back to one of the 3 inspection sites.

Second, I have never heard that the collector registration is not available for kit cars (and I've talked to Rich and others is Trenton several times). I believe that there are several people who have used the collector registration for their kits. Can someone verify this?

Does your car have the rectangular lucas taillight lenses on it? If so, you may have a problem with the engineering inspection because the lucas taillight lenses do not have a DOT or SAE number on them. (In the engineering inspection they make sure that all glass and turn signal lenses must have DOT or SAE numbers). I was told by those that do the engineering inspections that they can (will?) fail the car for that. I have been looking for similarly shaped taillight lenses with SAE numbers on them to use as subsititues but haven't found anything suitable yet.

Keep me posted as you go through the process, because I'd love to see what really happens.

Thanks again for your help.