[Catfishjr.]

no transom repair, but I am gonna go out on a limb and just buy the boat and start all my customizing, when I get done guess I will go through the process and get it titled and new vin. Lets just hope there is not a vin they find and it comes back stolen and I loose my arse.

 

[Catfishjr.]

Ive had to do this before on a boat I bought from Louisiana. It had a bad transom, when we fixed it we covered the vin number. I had to do the exact same thing. I had a title but couldn't get a pencil tracing of it. Made my appointment and Warden just walked around it and said alright lets go inside, he printed me a new vin # and installed it for me. Took maybe an hour the whole process. Just figured it would be harder since there was no title.

 

[Greenway]

I would hate to sink all my money in one then to find out it was hot. My F&f had vins in 2 places. One on the out side of the transom then one hid at the base of the transom on the inside under a piece of angle. I wound have never found it if I hadn't had it upside down doing a poly job.

 

[docsterling]

I have seen some vin plates on underside of rear corner pieces. where the gunnel meets the transom there is a small triangular piece, where alot of boats have there rear nav lights mounted. This was always on older monarch 1648 and 1448 jons. I never would have found the plate on mine located there if i hadnt of been drilling it for a rear light mount and it ended up knocking the plate off. I would look under and behind any kind of support or brace or anything else that is big enough to hide a plate the size of a dog tag. There is almost always one vin plate somewhere that someone missed when removing them.

 

[clark3]

I'm just saying texas game wardens these days are pretty smart and with stolen boats occurring more everyday they don't mess around. What they told you on the phone sounds good and all but I'm warning you it won't be that easy. You can't just walk in there and tell them you have a used boat with no title and no vin # and need to get it registered. She may have thought it was legally registered in another state by your friend, who never had it registered.

 

[clark3]

Don't just pull it down there. You have to set up an appt for the game warden

Yep and every office does it on different days. For example fortworth does them on Thursdays and garland on Wednesday and Lubbock on Monday's. Call ahead, tell them exactly your situation, I wouldn't lie to them about anything (other then I wouldn't toss your buddy under the bus just tell them the guy before you didn't have a title) I can pretty
Much gaurantee you theyre going to make you title 42 it or section 233 MSO the boat. I as well as a lot of people I know buy boats at auctions, sometimes they don't tell you before hand there is no title for the boat, and when it's a homebuilt boat all they do is put a sticker vin # on it that peels off in no time so getting a title and reg for them is a pain in the ass. I know people that have been on the title 42 and 233 list for well over a year waiting to get their boat titled and registered when there is no vin or title.

When they do set you up you have to appear in front of them with a bill of sale and explain to them why there is no title or Vin THEN it's not even gauranteed theyll accept it

 

[Fishmax2]

Well older boats do not in fact have a vin # and ks wildlife and parks at least understands this. I owned multiple late 60's models which when I registered they assigned a vin# / hull Id and I had to have that engraved and mounted in the boat in 2 locations in each case and problem solved