by m3a1 » January 21st, 2018, 2:30 am
I don't want to tell you your business but I think maybe you ought to start by having Rick eliminate the section of this post regarding the data plate. It's painfully clear what is going on with this truck numbers-wise. It's in your best interest not to advertise it because, now you have no deniability. Sell it with those numbers on it and you may very well find yourself being sued. Frankly, you may even have a cause of action of your own against the former owner.
We all know what the score is with these trucks. Many of them have had their identity removed, probably by the government that sold them, in an attempt to keep them off the highways but, when it comes right down to it, you risk a great deal with your truck having something like that amateurish data plate which is so plainly false.
May I suggest an alternative? First, get rid of the plate and absolutely forget about whatever title you may have gotten with it. It's an utterly worthless piece of paper. Go through the process of titling it which is not as horrible as you may have been lead to believe -or- get it running and make sure the mechanicals are right and while you are doing that, look for a better truck, body-wise; one that has a better provenance and a real title or simply be satisfied to use it without a title.
Under the present circumstances, what you have gotten yourself into with this truck is extremely risky and even though I don't call the shots here on the G838, I must say that publishing a vehicle here; one that has had its identity changed (which is illegal in all fifty states) certainly degrades the habitual truthfulness of the site and it's members because now, we are all a party to it.
Cheers,
TJ