? California Vehicle code for pre 1936 pickups?

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poweredbylincoln

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Does anyone happen to know the Vehicle code in California for pre 1936 pickups. To which you do not have to get a weight certificate?

any help is Greatly Appreciated

thank you!
 
Thank you mike!!! :)

VEHICLE CODE
Division 3. Registration of Vehicles and Certificates of Title
Chapter 6. Registration and Weight Fees
Article 3. Weight Fees

Cal Veh Code § 9401 (2009)

§ 9401. Exemption for vehicle manufactured prior to 1936

(a) Motor vehicles manufactured in or prior to 1936, are exempted from the payment of the weight
fees provided for in Section 9400.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any person who owns and operates a commercial vehicle
manufactured in or prior to 1936 which is registered to such person, may pay the appropriate weight
fees, and the department shall issue license plates of the same type as are issued to vehicles which are
required to pay weight fees for such vehicles.
 
I have a '33 pickup and still had to have it weighed for title in California when I bought it from Illinois. That's the only time I ever weighed it back in 2004. Now I just get license renewed like every other car every year.
 
al's28/33 said:
I have a '33 pickup and still had to have it weighed for title in California when I bought it from Illinois. That's the only time I ever weighed it back in 2004. Now I just get license renewed like every other car every year.
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Do you have commercial plates or regular car plates?

Bob
 
regular car plates but the DMV told me that since it was a pickup being registered first time in Cali. I had to weigh it for the title.
 
They told me I had to get my AA weighted when I went to get a CA title and I told the
lady it was exempt, I got the deer in the headlight look. Went home and came back with
the exemption printout and didn't have to get it weighted.

Bob
 
I have checked this little tidbit to be true: In California, you CAN be cited for hauling materials in a pickup that has car plates. Because I occasionally do a run to Lowe's or haul a chair in my 31, I stayed with the commercial plates.
 
Put a 'cab' over the bed and that will exempt you from the weights. I had a 97 ranger with a cab on the back and got car plates for it. If there is a cab they assume you are not going to use it for commercial purposes. Maybe you can come up with something to use in the stake holes?

Mike
 
My Cummins-powered '92 Dodge pickup weighs over 6,000 lbs, and the yearly registration fees were over $242 when I bought it, back in 1999. A couple of years later I had my DMV lady certify it as a passenger car, and to avoid any issues related to the license plates, it carries vintage vanity plates. Now my annual registration fees are less than half of that, for a savings of over $1,000 every 8-1/2 years or so.
 
Ca. CHP Vin verify can reissue you a form to expidite the uninforced code. Only dmv counter goons are trained to funnel you into paying something they know nothing about, beurocrats.
 
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