e30 Touring is registered and has Texas plates!

"Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker) 11/06/2014 at 09:40 • Filed to: None

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I'll be putting together a full, way-too-long post of my trials and travails in the process along with input from my partner-in-crime Duurtlang, but for now I'm satisfied with this. Best service I've ever gotten at a county tax office.

duurtlang > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/06/2014 at 09:49

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So the long wait was worth it! Any pictures of the car with the plates?

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > duurtlang 11/06/2014 at 09:56

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It was indeed! Honestly, though, it just wasn't nearly the pain in the ass I was expecting, but it didn't hurt that I was the first person in the door when they opened and had three people helping me. Kind of kicking myself for having dragged my feet for the past few weeks. I was expecting this to be a several hour ordeal, so I was trying to find time where I could burn an entire morning; now I'm here in the office two hours earlier than I expected to be!

Came straight into the office after getting it done so no pictures with the plates yet. I'm hoping I'll be able to mount a US-style plate to the long-plate mount; we'll find out when I go home for lunch, and if I can't then I'll run by the BMW dealer (which is literally right around the corner from my apartment) and see if they don't have an E30 US-plate mount on hand.

P.S. wound up having to pay tax on $7000 instead of $5000 because the bill of sale had the 7 on it originally and was kind of modified to say 5 and they wouldn't accept $5000 as the taxable value with that. Was an extra $125, but I was just ready to get it over and done with so I said fuck it and paid the difference. At least they made it a little bit difficult on me!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/06/2014 at 09:56

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Happy day! Looking forward to the write up.

Too many M's > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/06/2014 at 10:00

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Sweet! Take it to a meet and get more looks than the super cars :)

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Too many M's 11/06/2014 at 10:01

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Have a funny story about that from Cars and Coffee last weekend that I'll include in my longer write up, ha.

Party-vi > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/06/2014 at 10:05

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Sweet!

duurtlang > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/06/2014 at 10:07

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Can I interpret this as you being able do all of this within a very short period of time the next time I send you an E30 Touring? Great! I'll stockpile a few extra right now. Be right back, checking used car sites...

Seriously though, this seems like a great pilot study. A potential next one will be far smoother and efficient.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > duurtlang 11/06/2014 at 10:22

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Haha! It should be a much smoother process next time. Biggest thing is that I now know how long each step takes, and I think I can knock out the most time consuming parts by just taking one full day off from work, which is totally worth it.

Still haven't found a good answer for shipping, yet, and I have decided that I probably need to form a company to put the cars into as opposed to my own name, and I'd like to find some indoor storage solution, but I've (we've) learned a lot through this first one and there's so much room for improvement.

Now to see if it's actually going to be profitable or not...!

EL_ULY > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/06/2014 at 10:46

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dud heck yeah!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see it in person one day

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > duurtlang 11/06/2014 at 14:23

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It's just taped on for the moment, but there it is!

Pilot of the Clown Shoe > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 11/20/2014 at 17:13

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When I lived in Dallas County, I always went to the tax office in the basement of the county building right downtown. I worked across the freeway from AA Center so it was an easy hike at lunch time. It was always really quick and easy.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Pilot of the Clown Shoe 11/20/2014 at 17:18

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That's the one. I grew up in the suburbs and was used to the clusterfuck that was the Irving/Lewisville/Carrollton locations, but I've used the Downtown location the past several times and it's been completely empty. It's one of the great revelations of my adult life.