For sale fully restored '31 Tutor

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Fully reconditioned and restored 1931 Model A Tutor. Engine fully overhauled in 2020. New cast iron brake drums and new shoes. Floaters on front brakes. New battery. New wire loom with turn signals. Seat belts. Garaged.
This is a gem that wont last. 17K OBO.
 
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He joined 2 days ago and doesn’t have enough posts to put an ad in the For Sale section. No location listed, so use caution if interested. License plate says “Cuba”.
 
I don't spend 3 seconds on ads without a location.If they won't give me a number to call them,or call the number I send,(their choice) I don't bother.I'm not typewriting back and forth to sell or buy cars or parts.Initial contact is fine,but I sometimes have people want to send 30 texts back and forth to find out less than I could have gotten or given in a two minute phone call.I don't have a phone that texts anyway.
 
I'm not thinking scam just yet,but with the world wide web I just don't bother to look if there is no location.While I realize that picture could have been taken in a thousand places,the background really looks like a place on the cape I have been to look at Model A's before.
 
If you think getting title to an out-of-state car is difficult, I cannot imagine what would happen if I showed up at DMV and said "I have this old car from Cuba that I'd like to register..."
 
JayJay said:
If you think getting title to an out-of-state car is difficult, I cannot imagine what would happen if I showed up at DMV and said "I have this old car from Cuba that I'd like to register..."
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You need import documents. Not a big problem for a pre smog car but anything that needs an epa sticker it gets difficult. Time limits and bonds to get it up to US standards. Not done in time won't pass emissions/safety regs they come take your car and crush it.
 
Guys, the car is in Tacoma, Washington. In the U.S. I doubt that car has been anywhere close to Cuba.
 
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Jay jay, Cali is an easy title state. dont get your feathers ruffled...........
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Not as easy as you think for out of country cars. I had a Ford Festiva that was the prototype ShoGun. The car was a total bought out of a CA junkyard. It was rebuilt and retitled in CA. Since it had a SHO Taurus engine in the back seat it needed to go to the CA Air Resources Board to get their approval and sticker. The car got sold to a Ford dealer in Canada who also had a home in CT. He retitled it in Canada even though it stayed at his home in CT. One of the original builders bought it back. Since it never left there were no documents proving it was in the US legally. I ended up with it and had zero luck proving to CA DMV that it was a US legal car even showing them the original arrival paperwork from the Port Hueneme docks, Sale from CA junkyard, old CA registration card, orig ARB papers and a statement from the Canadian owner it had never left US. Their advise was to drive it into Mexico and do the paperwork when I crossed back into the US. I sold it to the other original builder and he had no trouble getting a GA title and registration. He sold it to a guy in Germany. Article after I sold it - https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/sho-time-original-festiva-shogun/

You also run into CA DMV problems with the engine number being the VIN. They want to see visible numbers on the chassis to use not the engine number like was originally done. My car has a CA assigned VIN since they didn't want to use the "removable engine" as the VIN. I also had the same problem with an engineless 54 Studebaker that had been registered with the engine number. Studebaker also had a chassis serial number - the numbers were different. Fortunately Studebaker records still exist and I was able to get a copy of the original build card that showed the number on the engine paired up with the body number. DMV then issued a title with the chassis serial number listed as the VIN.


Of course it's CA and your results will vary by which office you go to and even within that office depending on who you get at the window.....


California has over 1,282 DMV locations that are capable of registering a new vehicle.
 
model a 29 have sold titles for yrs to Cali and nobody EVER had a problem


your results obviously vary.............


sometimes its the doing of the owner.
 
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I live in California and have been dealing with old cars for over 60 years now. I NEVER go directly to DMV but use a private DMV Service. They know what they are doing and can help get these old car title problems straightened out.

My experience,

Chris W.
 
Hitman said:
Guys, the car is in Tacoma, Washington. In the U.S. I doubt that car has been anywhere close to Cuba.
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You have personal knowledge of this? (other than what is shown on the listing in the for sale section?)

Seems kind of strange that the seller hasn't even logged in since making their 3 posts 10 days ago.
 
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