Hi i am a young and fairly inexperienced motorcycle mechanic. Unfortunately as i have recently learned, being able to rebuild an engine or a carb is a piece of cake compared to trying to make a bike legal without the most proper of paperwork. In my case i rebuilt a 1975 kz400 and was real proud when i got the baby to purr and pull with power. Then when it came to legalizing it like my previous kz400 the first problem i had was that the bike had no title. But i figured in this case i could just apply for a salvage title or something. Thats when i found out that the friend i was fixing the bike for had no bill of sale. He bought the bike off ebay and since we were new to the procedure we didnt think to ask for a bill of sale. Somehow i still had hope for this pretty old bike thinking that i could just run a bike history with the vin. Then my dreams took their final blow when i saw that the frame vin had been scratched completely off. I AM SCREWED arent I. If anybody has some sort of suggestion as to what i should do with this tragedy of a vintage bike i would love to hear about it. I live in cambridge MA and here the laws are pretty strict. I was thinking about going back to new york where i bought it and trying to see if they'll let me slip cause the bike is 40 years old. I also figured that if i could look up the engine vin i might be able to figure the frame vin and thus get it checked for a stolen history.
SO IS IT GOING TO THE POLICE...THE DUMP...CAN IT BE SAVED....
Please lemme know any ideas or possible suggestions you have thanks.
SO IS IT GOING TO THE POLICE...THE DUMP...CAN IT BE SAVED....
Please lemme know any ideas or possible suggestions you have thanks.