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Bill's Factory Five 427 Roadster Reference
Guide:
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| Cobra
Replica Manufacturer |
Factory
Five Racing
9 Tow Road
Wareham, MA 02571
(508) 291-3443
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| Custom
Builder |
Carl
McClellan
(281) 748-6852
Shipping world-wide, building Cobra 427 Roadsters and Daytona
Coupes.
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| Shipping
Company |
Stewart
Transport
For Quotes:
888-737-4852 Toll Free
602-242-1800 Local
collin@stewarttransport.com
Custom equipped 53 foot Air-Ride equipped trailers
Capacity of 6 FFR cars
FFR Crates NOT necessary!
Nationwide service from FFR facility in Massachusetts
Direct delivery to your location available
Expedited service available (2-4 day regular service)
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| Custom
Painter |
Tejas Paint
and Body
Owner: Daniel
(979) 793-5885
Houston area, plus will accept work shipped to him from anywhere in
the US. |
| Drive Shaft
Shortening |
Houston
Drive Train Service Inc
7959 North Loop East, Houston, TX 77028
(713) 675-6375
(713) 675-6214 (fax)
Ask for Bubba |
| Chroming |
Airline
Plating
6901 Airline Drive, Houston, TX 77076
(713) 692-6369
Ask for Joe |
| Cobra
Accessories |
Finish
Line, Inc
Buy your Cobra emblems and accessories from these guys. Great
service and prices! |
| Ford
Performance Parts |
Tommy Vaughn
Ford
Ask for Jason
1145 North Shepherd Drive, Houston, TX 77008
(713) 869-4755 |
| FFR Cobra
Discussion Forum |
FFCobra
This is a website that has great FFR information and online
help. A must for all FFR builders. |
Donor
Pallets
Caution: Do no use All Mustang! |
All
Mustang - WARNING! Do not use ALL MUSTANG! |
Registering and Titling your FFR in
Texas*
* Updated 8/30/2002. These steps only apply to Factory Five 427 Roadsters. All
disclaimers apply and this is subject to change without notice. These are
just my opinions and experiences, you may find that the tag office you go
to is different or doesn't agree with our local tag office's determination that
my FFR is an
ASSEMBLED VEHICLE, not a REPLICA. You should seek legal advice if you are
unclear of the steps. This was a legal way of registering my car in
Texas as a 1965. Unless the State of Texas changes the rules for
Assembled Vehicles, this should be the steps for any FFR builder to
register and title their car as a 1965 Factory Five Roadster.
Our local tag office interpreted the Texas
"Vehicle Title Manual", pages 199 and 200, and registered my FFR Roadster as an
"Assembled Vehicle", not a "Replica". You can download
these pages here: Assembled
Vehicle Info. Please review "X. ASSEMBLED VEHICLE USING PREFABRICATED
BODY" Section A-2. The Factory Five manufacturers certificate of origin
(MCO), is your "proof of ownership" which will determine the
year in which your car will be titled. If your MCO says "1965"
then that's what the title will say.
Why is it
an "Assembled Vehicle" instead of a "Replica"?
Because it doesn't say Cobra Replica on the Certificate of Origin.
If it did, I would have had to register the car as a Replica. Or, if
they ask you, "Is it a replica or an assembled vehicle" you have
to decide how to answer that question for yourself. In Texas, if you
are registering and titling a "Replica", it will be titled as
the year it was built, not the year it replicates. But, according to
the Texas "Vehicle Title Manual", pages 199 and 200, "Assembled
Vehicle's" are titled as the YEAR MODEL according to these rules: "The
year model is the same as shown on the evidence of ownership covering the
prefabricated body. If no year model designation is shown or if
the make of the vehicle is "assembled", the year in which the
vehicle was assembled will determine the year model."
Factory Five sent me a Certificate of Origin that DID NOT say REPLICA and
DID state the YEAR as 1965, therefore, the local tag office titled my FFR
Roadster as a "1965 Factory Five Roadster".
Here are the steps you will need to take in
order to register and title your car in Texas as a 1965 Factory Five
Roadster:
| Step 1:
Filling out the "Application for Texas Certificate of
Title".
Make: Factory Five
"Assembled"
Model: Roadster
Year: 1965
VIN: FFR????K
Previous owner: "Assembled" |
Download the
application:
Form
130-U.PDF |
| Step 2:
Take the following with you:
1. Manufacture's certificate and invoices.
2. Bills of sale covering other component parts assembled.
3. Properly executed Affidavit and Application to Register and Title
a Vehicle which has been Rebuilt, Assembled, Reconstructed, Stripped
or has had a change in Component Parts.
4. Pencil tracing of the VIN (example: "FFR1000K") using
the supplied form at right.
5. Side photograph of vehicle.
6. A Standard of Safety Statement, Form D12-470. Better known as a
"Green Sheet" which you get by having the car inspected at
any normal inspection station like you would each year on your other
cars. But in this case, ask for a "Green Sheet" and
it will cost you an extra $1 for the form. After doing step-6,
your car is now inspected and you will also get the inspection
sticker for your windshield.
7. Valid proof of insurance. Which you needed for the safety
inspection, so you should already have it. |
Download the
Affidavit:
VTR61.PDF
Download Request for Pencil Tracing
of Vehicle Identification Number (VIN):
VTR301.PDF
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That's
it! You're done! All this can be done in less than an
hour. You will have to pay for the tags,
title and taxes. The taxes are based on the receipts that you take
to the title office. You have to take the FFR receipt, but if
the car is not complete you may not have any other receipts
yet. Taxes are 6.25% of the total receipts.
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