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Corvette in Indiana. When he attempted to register the
car in his home state, the highway patrol determined
that the VIN tag had been removed and reattached,
which is against the law.
According to Kansas law at the time, the Corvette was
seized and should have been destroyed. There was no
exception for someone who purchased a vehicle not
knowing about the VIN issue. In this case, the VIN
had been removed years earlier during restoration and
reattached. On March 22, 2022, Gov. Lauren Kelly
approved the Kansas House Bill 2594, which allows
for the temporary removal of the VIN during the full
restoration of antique vehicles. Although it remains
unclear when the owner of the Corvette will be reunited
with his car, the bill is a step toward protecting the
Kansas collector car community.
In 2021, Barrett-Jackson began working to change the
law in Arizona. “We were aware of the archaic statute
making it a crime to remove a VIN, and finally, we said
something needed to be done,” Davis said.
“This is a precedent-setting moment that people will
look at and then want to emulate this legislation in their
states,” Davis said.
According to Jackson, many states have similar VIN
statutes that were enacted during the 1940s and ’50s, a
time in which no one could conceive that decades later,
such cars would be restored and worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars or more.

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