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I am really sorry you had to go through all that.I went into the Bartow tag office today to get my title and tag for the Deuce I purchased from Clintogf.
The lady stated that the system would not let her transfer the tag. She asked the weight and I pulled out the data I had and then it became well which weight rating should we use. She questioned the department manager who suggested that she call the state to clarify things. That's when it got odd. The vehicle had a proper GA title and when the person at the state office got involved they said the issue was because it was incorrectly listed as a Jeep for the make. She said it had to be truck. So sadly they changed the title to now read 1968 Kaiser Truck M35A2. Then the state office said the weight had to be the 23,535 as listed in the spec sheet for the truck.
So here in my county, there are 3 or 4 attendants at the tag office and I always try to deal with one. She's the most helpful. At the other end of the spectrum, there's the moron who titled this truck. When I took her the SF97 and the County Sheriff filled-out VIN inspection form, she saw the manufacturer "Kaiser-Jeep" and simply couldn't get the thought out of her head that this meant it was not built by Kaiser-Jeep, but was a "Jeep" made by Kaiser.
I tried and tried and tried to dissuade her of this notion, using the (in my head) brilliant analogy of "Mercedes-Benz is a manufacturer of various vehicle-Mercedes is not a manufacturer of Benzes"-and she insisted it be written up this way.
It (obviously) should be "Kaiser-Jeep, M35A2, truck or cargo truck" .
I hate to rant about the DMV like everyone else, but the problem is that these people do nothing but modern 17 digit VINs all day and anything out of the ordinary just throws a giant monkey wrench into the equation.
Glcaines and I think mdmorgan are the most knowledgeable about the current plate situation in Ga. I found this post by Gary, but I am looking because I think there's a better, newer thread covering the topic
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showth...e-in-GA&p=1208808&highlight=plate#post1208808