[Chief of the 60's]

Originally Posted by chris66

I have a 74 GTO that I bought out of PA years ago. Complete car no issues with the PA title.
The title ended up having one digit off in the vin, which I did not notice when I purchased. I believe a key stroke error.
I registered the car in NY, without an issue, until NYS DMV caught it.
I had to have the car inspected by the NYS DMV Investigators, all of the hidden vins matched on the car, but
I was still given a rebuilt salvage title.
I am still going to drive it until I can't anymore and not worry.....

Let me guess.... You went on Dingens St? Some of those guys can F'up a wet dream as well as Albany. I will tell you personally as well as professionally, you got screwed. Someone didn't know what they were doing, now you're stuck with a branded title.

Unless there is more to this than what you are saying, all you needed to do is to take the car to a NYS Trooper's barracks to have the VIN confirmed. What you had was a title discrepancy which only requires a visual VIN verification or a pencil scratching of the VIN tag. Dingens St. NYS Inspection Station can also verify a VIN but get the wrong guy or go in with the wrong application and you'll walk out with a branded title or worse, reassigned VIN.