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My DMV Experience was a long haul about four months trying to get my truck a pink slip and registration. I worked on this truck for ten years to frame off restore it into ModRod ( I think that’s the correct term ). I lost my original Pink slip and my registration was torn and part of it was missing but it had my name and the truck Vin Number last registered in 1984. I wanted to use the Black California Plates that were on it when I bought it. The DMV gave me a Temporary Operating Permit and sent me to the CHP to get a VIN check. The officer said the VIN numbers on my truck were stamped in two places on the top rail of the frame. There’s one that’s visible when you open the hood on the drivers side but after a different cross member was installed a couple of the numbers were no longer visible. The CHP had crawl under the truck with a gooseneck camera to find the other VIN number stamped on the frame top rail behind the bed. It matched the visible last five or six numbers of the VIN number on the front of the frame if it didn't there could be a problem. So after he verified it was not stolen he riveted a Blue VIN tag on the drivers side door post. So I went back to the DMV and they told me I had to weigh the truck so I went to the rock quarry put it on the scale. Back to the DMV I go with all my paper work and my old plates. They scanned my front plate and sent it with a little form I had to fill out about the trucks history to Sacramento along with VIN check and the weight check. After three more Temporary operating permits about four months they sent me new plates not allowing me to use my originals because in the registration sticker area on the front plate it was stamped 1963 not 1955 like the year of my truck. So I ended up with the newer CA plates oh well at least I can drive it know but it was a long [censored] haul.