ROUTE 66 TRIKERS FORUM

I went to the DMV yesterday checking on how to get a title for a home made
Trike.The lady at the window I went to knew nothing of this change.She then
went and got her supervisor who knew of the change because he could no longer
issue titles out of the Houston DMV office.That they had to send all the paper
work to Austin now.He then showed me a picture of a homemade V-8 Trike that
had been denied.This is what he showed me in the Motor Vehicle Title Manual.

Title Manual page 25-16

Eligibility for Title

Homemade vehicles are not eligible for title or registration. Homemade vehicles
are

described as vehicles that were not previously manufactured by a NHTSA
approved

manufacturer or a vehicle created by merging two or more vehicles from different
vehicle

classes that were never engineered or manufactured to be combined with one
another by

the original manufacturers of those vehicles (such as a motorcycle front and the
rear of a

Volkswagon Beetle).

Rule §217.3

(a) (6) Vehicles that may not be titled. The department will not title a vehicle,
with the exception of a trailer as defined in Transportation Code, §501.002, that
does not have a body, motor, and frame manufactured by a motor vehicle
manufacturer.

Transportation Code

Sec. 502.048. REFUSAL TO REGISTER UNSAFE VEHICLE. The department
may refuse to register a motor vehicle and may cancel, suspend, or revoke a
registration if the department determines that a motor vehicle is unsafe,
improperly equipped, or otherwise unfit to be operated on a public highway.

Transferred, redesignated and amended from Transportation Code, Section
502.005 by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1296, Sec. 86, eff. January 1,
2012.To read more on theis change go to chapter 25, page 13
http://ftp.txdmv.gov/pub/txdot-info/vtr/title_manual_book_451.pdf

Per Pamela (assistant chief regional service) at vehicle titles and registration
division Austin Texas, The State of Texas will no longer issue Titles for
homemade Trikes at all. Because the frames or not from a certified NHTSA
dealer.She said the Trikers that or all ready titled and registered now, will be ok
but who every owns them can not sale them because Texas will not transfer the
title.I know a lot of Trikes or registered as motorcycles, just watch out how it is
titled, I had one DPS officer tell me if he stopped someone on a trike and if all
the vin munbers,insurance and license matched the Trike he would either give
you a ticket or a warning and let you go,but if it looked more like a car he would
look a little closer and may have to pull the tag and inspection due to state law,
He also said it was going to make his job harder.Everyone ride safe and enjoy
the weather if you can I know some of you or getting some bad storms and
servier weather our prayers go out to yall and I hope nothing serious happens to
You, your Familey or Friends.