Homemade trike in TX??????Maybe not

[bigjoey38]

Just pulled this from another forum in regards to homemade trikes and TX

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 Volkswagen Beetle).

[pmascarenas]

That's the government take more rights away from the people again.

[John Luciano]

So how do you reg it? In Conn. you would have to hire a crash dummy.. You need all receipts for every piece you used and the Vin numbers of all the vehicles the parts are from with Bill of sales. Then it needs to go through a new car inspection and get a new VIN. Number assigned to it.

[bigjoey38]

The way I was reading it TX is not allowing even to re-register

[willom]

If you have a motorcycle title all that is needed in Texas is to register it as a motorcycle. The state does not distinguish any difference between a cycle and a trike. Just renewed registration on my harley which is now a trike and DMV made no changes to my registration. If you are building from scratch all you should need is the title of a motorcycle hopefully the one which you used the front end off, but if you replaced it with a custom front end no one is going to check.

[pmascarenas]

if it is home built i would register it in another state as a motorcycle then register it in texas as a motorcycle??

[John Luciano]

Motorcycle coming from another state must be inspected by DMV.
I am sure that they would notice it is no longer a a 350 Honda

[easymoney]

i am not sure whether i am legal or not i am in Tennessee. i registered my trike as the motorcycle that matched the vin number on my front fork and neck. i did not try to explain it to the dmv or to my insurance company. my trike is titled as a suzuki 750 but has the suzuji front end, a vw frame, a yugo 1300cc engine, and parts scrounged from various sources that was not originally motorcycle or automotive related from my junk pile.

[slick rick]

i am not sure whether i am legal or not i am in Tennessee. i registered my trike as the motorcycle that matched the vin number on my front fork and neck. i did not try to explain it to the dmv or to my insurance company. my trike is titled as a suzuki 750 but has the suzuji front end, a vw frame, a yugo 1300cc engine, and parts scrounged from various sources that was not originally motorcycle or automotive related from my junk pile.

I'm telling my age here but I think Johnny Cash built a caddy this way or maybe not .