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The Great Boyd Coddington Raid! California goes after hot rodders and kit builders.(News)(Column)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
State of California agents, armed with guns, raided Boyd Coddington's hot rod shop last month.
Sounds exciting, right?
"Well, yeah, I mean, they had guns but just because they wear guns everyday in their work, they didn't have them drawn or anything,'' said Coddington spokesman Jim Rizzo.
The raid was the latest in a growing investigation that California figures will eventually net it millions of tax dollars from undervalued and misrepresented street rods, kit cars and various fake Cobras. Or maybe it won't.
The whole thing started with the conviction of Richard Clark Weaver of Birmingham, Alabama, last April for issuing false vehicle titles. Owners of fake Cobras would pay Weaver $200 and Weaver would send them an Alabama title stating that their Cobra was a 1965 or '66 model worth some specified amount, well under the actual value of the car. That would exempt them from smog laws, big registration fees and lots of California sales tax.
Once the state got the Weaver conviction, it expanded the investigation to include all kinds of kit cars and street rods, and Coddington's shop was simply the latest target.
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