the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’ recent refusal to offer titles and registration for their vehicles has resulted in outrage
In 2014, the Texas DMV quietly began to revoke titles for the vehicles, citing Texas Administrative Rule 217.3, which explicitly made any vehicle “designed or determined by the department to be a dune buggy” ineligible for title “regardless of the vehicle’s previous title and/or registration.”
When asked, however, Texas DMV officials have admitted that the state does not define what a dune buggy is.
Kit cars built as hobbies, designed to look like popular classic cars, and generally driven only to attend car shows and meetups of local enthusiasts, are now being denied title and registration by the agency.
“This is a classic example of the heavy hand of government getting into people’s lives for no legitimate reason,” said Faron Smith before the event. Smith, who runs the Assembled Vehicle Coalition of Texas, organized the rally in order to educate Texans on the quiet others have faced. “These vehicles have been legal in Texas for many, many years and have are fully inspected by certified state inspectors as Texas law prescribes.”
“For the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to simply wake up one day and decide to ban vehicles with no legitimate reason is un-American and anti-Texan in my opinion,” he continued.
https://empowertexans.com/state/assembled-car-enthusiasts-rally-against-dmv-rules/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SavetheTexasDuneBuggy/
In 2014, the Texas DMV quietly began to revoke titles for the vehicles, citing Texas Administrative Rule 217.3, which explicitly made any vehicle “designed or determined by the department to be a dune buggy” ineligible for title “regardless of the vehicle’s previous title and/or registration.”
When asked, however, Texas DMV officials have admitted that the state does not define what a dune buggy is.
Kit cars built as hobbies, designed to look like popular classic cars, and generally driven only to attend car shows and meetups of local enthusiasts, are now being denied title and registration by the agency.
“This is a classic example of the heavy hand of government getting into people’s lives for no legitimate reason,” said Faron Smith before the event. Smith, who runs the Assembled Vehicle Coalition of Texas, organized the rally in order to educate Texans on the quiet others have faced. “These vehicles have been legal in Texas for many, many years and have are fully inspected by certified state inspectors as Texas law prescribes.”
“For the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to simply wake up one day and decide to ban vehicles with no legitimate reason is un-American and anti-Texan in my opinion,” he continued.
https://empowertexans.com/state/assembled-car-enthusiasts-rally-against-dmv-rules/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SavetheTexasDuneBuggy/
Right on Faron Smith. DMV and state legislators bunch a Goddamn comminist anyway! And yes, I spelled it that way on purpose. ;)
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