CA DMV
VIRP Manual
Executive Summary
California DMV VIRP section 7.100 (Kit Vehicles) covers a kit vehicle is a vehicle that is built for private use, not for resale, and is not constructed by a licensed manufacturer or remanufacturer. Kit vehicles are often replicas of well-known and expensive classics but can also be commercial vehicles and trailers. Part of Miscellaneous Originals. Tags Clinic hosts the official manual text unchanged below for dealers and registration services in California.
Key Takeaways
- A kit vehicle is a vehicle that is built for private use, not for resale, and is not constructed by a licensed manufacturer or remanufacturer.
- Kit vehicles are often replicas of well-known and expensive classics but can also be commercial vehicles and trailers.
- A kit vehicle is registered by the kit manufacturer’s VIN (they are exempt from the federal 17-digit VIN requirement) and does not have a model year.
- The make abbreviation is the kit make followed by the abbreviation KT.
- All kit motor vehicles and kit trailers weighing 6,001 pounds or more unladen, and vehicles having more than one VIN must be referred to the California Highway….
Important Facts
- Manual section
- 7.100
- Chapter
- Miscellaneous Originals
- Manual text
- Verbatim DMV VIRP source below the overview