Umkay. The Department Of Transportation (DOT) does NOT test vehicles! It is up to the manufacturer to carry out safety tests. Ie 3rd party crash test, endurance testing, etc, with the results reported in. Secondly, what we are discussing here is actual "pre-preduction" status. Cars that were built before the vehicle with serial # "500" was built. Since your car is #538, this negates any intended use by DMC for the vehicle, because your particular car was manufactured after production started. You own a production vehicle. As for your car, who knows what's going on. If it's got no VIN tags, or proper emissions labels, well, who knows what's up with it. However, if it swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, comes from the same underbody dies as a duck, and has the exact same equipment as a production run duck, then it's NOT a pre-preduction duck. Err, car. Now I'm not trying to incite anything here, but if your car does not have any serial #'s/VIN tags, then how are you able to claim "VIN 538"? More imporantly, how are you able to register it with the local DMV? Were the plates removed? Do you have an assigned serial # from the state? Where did any of this information come from? Do you have any documentation? With this line of logic here, I could claim that my November 81 bulit car, is a "pre-preduction, 1982 DeLorean". -Robert vin 6585 "X" --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "vin00538" <lawrencesr@xxxx> wrote: > > Okay Let me tell you this then, My 00538 Has not been DOT tested, I have no Door > plate vin, On dash only, no way to verify this car was tested for US Sales, Also no date > or month of Build, no weight limits, no emissions mentioned. Now what? Have I > convinced you yet? I can post some more pice in the pic section check them out vin- > 00358, > Lawrence To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/