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tlcrz1972 · 06-13-2013, 07:13 PM

I've had several trucks with these bumpers, and most were Texas dealers.

My junk trailer still has one a little bent and rusty but it works.

Now Down here in Texas many scrap yards do turn in the titles to the state when they salvage them. And getting the title back I believe doesn't happen.
But the good side to it is that if you buy say a cab from a salvage yard, and install it on a good frame with a title. We can take them to a TxDot office and have it inspected, and they do a search on the part that has been installed. And after they deem it OK they put a sticker on the door jamb next to the vin tag denoting that it is TxDot approved. And not a stolen item. For out trucks that mainly means frames and cabs, beings they were the only things that were identifiable, via vin numbers. And then they do some paper work and it is noted with the title info about the deviation from original.
It's more involved than that but if you have good parts they can be reused on other worthy projects.

06-13-2013, 07:13 PM	#37
tlcrz1972 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Gainesville, TEXAS Posts: 658	Re: Dealer engraved rear bumper?? I've had several trucks with these bumpers, and most were Texas dealers. My junk trailer still has one a little bent and rusty but it works. Now Down here in Texas many scrap yards do turn in the titles to the state when they salvage them. And getting the title back I believe doesn't happen. But the good side to it is that if you buy say a cab from a salvage yard, and install it on a good frame with a title. We can take them to a TxDot office and have it inspected, and they do a search on the part that has been installed. And after they deem it OK they put a sticker on the door jamb next to the vin tag denoting that it is TxDot approved. And not a stolen item. For out trucks that mainly means frames and cabs, beings they were the only things that were identifiable, via vin numbers. And then they do some paper work and it is noted with the title info about the deviation from original. It's more involved than that but if you have good parts they can be reused on other worthy projects.