Virginia Specially Constructed Vehicle Registration Process
Been going back and forth trying to get the Noble registered for legal road use. It has been a struggle. I went to the local DMV who game me a possible list of documents to send to the Richmond DMV. I sent them all off before Thanksgiving with a nice letter and my phone number listed several times, asking them to call me if they needed anything else. Eleven days later I got the documents back with a letter stating that I was missing one document and to write a larger check. No problem, and I would have happily overnighted the additional documents if they had simply called, avoiding another week delay. Also, it appears that they coordinate the entire inspection process. That is different from what the local DMV and Richmond phone rep told me. Anyway, I got the other doc and cashier’s check together in about an hour. Since there appeared to be confusion with the DMV offices, I wanted to meet someone from the Richmond office face-to-face. I drove up on Tuesday and spent about an hour asking the normal teller questions until he asked the real processor to come downstairs and look over my stuff. Success. I spoke with a nice woman who took the documents upstairs and had a supervisor look over them. Everything is there. I asked about the process and next steps. Her answer explained the confusion. The lady that used to process all specially constructed vehicles (for 20 years) recently retired without properly training a replacement. New staff is trying to figure out how it works. Also, a new computer system is making processing difficult.
I asked for the bottom line. She saw my frustration and was nice enough to give me her name and office phone number. I am supposed to call in three weeks if I have not heard from them. In the meantime, a sad Noble M400 sits in the garage.
