[ByronRACE]

Let me just reiterate. I don't have a problem with the registration process of my car. My reason for requesting a name for the "person in charge of SB-100 in Sacramento" is so I can pick up a discussion we had in late 2004, to hopefully prevent yet more problems for the kit-car builder being generated out of the los gatos DMV.

I'm personally covered. I have TWO (sadly) SB-100 numbers for my car, and appointments through the end of my registration process...I'll soon be done.

But, in the process I've wasted one of the rare sequence numbers due to misinformation provided by Ms. Hastings of the Los Gatos DMV in 2004...and it's now 2006 and she's still spreading the same misinformation that lead to wasted SB100 allocation. I think the least I can do is at least TRY to prevent this from recurring.

It's been suggested that her behavior is somehow encouraging us to complete our cars. Maybe, but it's definitely causing unnecessary multiple allocation of sequence numbers to the same car thus wasting spots for others. In my opinion, this waste is far worse for the fellow hobbyist than any amount of encouragement. That's why I want to know who is in charge in Sacramento, to try to "right" some of the "wrong" that I've been a part of.

What I'd really like to see happen is some way to put an unused SB-100 number back into the pool; or transfer it to a new owner. That should also be in the spirit of the program...but there's no way to do that either. I'll raise that point as well. Nothing would make me happier than to be able to give that unused SB-100 # I have to another builder.

Byron