hey everyone, just thought that id have a whinge. i cant believe whats just happened...its such a f*cken nightmare!

dunno if people know, but about 5 months ago i smashed my old corolla at mt dandy, so i bought a completely stripped twincam chassis with twincam running gear in it. (no interior, waterlogged motor all in pieces, cut up loom, heaps of stuff missing, etc, etc) off a guy who told me he got it from stolen and recovered auctions.

i spen the last few months painstakingly putting everything back together, i got a rwc and i was trying to book the little beast in for rego, and the guy at vicroads (after i quoted the engine number) told me "its not coming up stolen and recovered like youre telling me mate--its coming up STOLEN! take it up with the cops"

so i f*cken spent a whole day at the cop shop, (the only good thing that came out of it was the fact that i found out the whole history of the car..)

anyways: the car used to belong to some chick who lives in noble park. it was stolen from dandy in feb last year, and racv paid the chick out $3500. a couple of months later it turned up completely stripped and trashed in some reserve in croydon..

the cops were called, but they "couldnt identify the car cos the compliance plates were missing and there was no rego sticker"

*start of ranting* what the f*ck do i pay my taxes for? dont the fat f*cks know that theres such a thing as engine and chassis numbers? f*cken braindead morons *end of rant*

so apparently, they couldnt identify it so they got some towing company to take possession of it, and this company sold it at stolen-recovered auctions to chris, who had it sitting in his backyard in geelong rusting away for nine months before selling it to me.

so now...because of the f*cken moronic croydon cops, it still hasnt been declared "recovered" and its technically the property of racv.

so i have some racv motherf*cker coming to my house on monday and he wants me to "buy the car off racv" because its technically still their property.

i dont see why i have to pay for the car AGAIN!! but if i dont then he apparently has the right to repossess my car....and this is all after months of hard work, and heaps of money that i spent on it.

hmmmmmmm, not happy jan. ive never been bosom-buddies with the cops, but i swear, their incredible stupidity never ceases to amaze me!

does anyone know what i could do to get out of having to pay for the car again?? i just mortgaged my left testicle just to save enough money for reg. i mean, because it technically WAS recovered, but the police didnt report it to racv, do i still have to pay the racv??

can someone help me out with advice???

===================cheers, roman===============================

[Updated on: Sat, 18 October 2003 16:09]

[Updated on: Sun, 19 October 2003 08:43]

haha draven, that is sooo dodgy but i've given it a lot of thought.

((in fact i've been driving around with the old rolla number plates and compliance sticker for a few months now, but that reg has just run out)) hmmmm dodgy dodgy dodgy

theres no way to tell whether its just the motor that is stolen or whether the chassis is stolen as well because vicroads keeps no record of chassis numbers of cars made before 1989.

thats what screwed me up as well, cos when i bought it i ran the chassis number through vicroads and it didnt come up with any shite on it (how was i to know that the reason for that was that they didnt even have a record of it?? )

but yeah grega, i'll definately have a look into whether the towing company has insurance for this kinda thing. P.S. good luck with your sprinter too

thanks for all your help everyone...if anyone can come up with any other ideas that would be sweet.

anyways, i'll post up how the meeting with the racv clown goes tomorrow

===========cheers, roman======================================

[Updated on: Sun, 19 October 2003 10:58]

just a little tip 4 ne1 gettign screwed over by a government department or partually due to them
your state and federal members will bend multiple ways to try and ensure you vote for them next time

[Updated on: Sun, 07 December 2003 14:41]