RE: Gray Market Cars

[audidudi@delphi.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>As far as them having these cars, I suppose it is possible to register
>the car (illegally) by buying let's say the same year 930 Turbo, and
>changing the VIN numbers (which I'm sure good old Bill has the
>connections to do).

I have a friend in Northern California who has three -- 3! -- Buick Grand
National GNXs, one of which is a 49 state car and the other of which has a
620 hp (!) modified drag motor in it.  He only registered the CA-legal one
and the few times a year he has a hankering to drive one of the others on
the street, he swaps the plates from one to the other.  He claims his system
works great -- the one time he was stopped, the cop didn't check the VIN --
and he can always claim he put the plate on the wrong car by mistake since
they're all painted the same color.

Of course, if he ever runs a light and stuffs it into a schoolbus full of
kids, his insurance company may not be quite so gullible or charitably
inclined!  BTW, he has several other cars (including a couple of Porsches)
and a 10-car garage to park them in ... nice to have money, even if you've
had to bust yer butt for it (as he has and continues to do)!

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