XPost: ca.driving   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Arlen   Holder   wrote:   
   >On Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:11:25 -0500, Steve W. wrote:   
   >   
   >> A salvage title means that the car has been deemed a total loss by   
   >> someone and was written off as scrap.   
   >   
   >Thanks for your advice as I realize this is a "California-only" question.   
      
   I think a lot of the California weirdness is intended to deal with people   
   with million-dollar exotic vehicles.  This is much less of an issue in   
   the South.   
      
   In Virginia, once a vehicle is salvaged, repaired, then titled as rebuilt,   
   you get a REBUILT on your title, and have no serious problems with insurance.   
   However, getting titled as rebuilt requires an inspection to make sure no   
   stolen parts were used, and once you have REBUILT on your title the DMV now   
   can't do any of the paperwork for anything locally, so any minor title   
   changes have to be sent to Richmond where they will take several weeks.   
      
   Once you have salvage or rebuilt on your car's title it is effectively not   
   possible to get it removed in many states, whereas in some other states it   
   can be done.  So you will see people trading registration from state to state   
   in an attempt to clean up titles on million-dollar exotics.  This is apparently   
   legal and not too difficult if you own additional residences in a number of   
   states.   
   --scott   
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