Heading to tellico

Down&Dirty

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Alright, I am finally almost done with this semester so I am giong to make a trip up to tellico for the first time now that I live so close. The plan is to stay at crawfords. Do I need to do anything about tags for the trail rig to get to and from the trails? I don't want to get there and then get ticketed for something I could have handled here. On a school budget I can't afford the ticket, shot I have to finance the trip thanks to good ole uncle visa.
 
When you headed up there? What ever you do, dont go alone. We bought our passes at the parking area on trail 1 last year, I assume thats still the routine. Get you a good map of the trails too.
We have a group headed up next thursday, about 10 of us, staying at Crawfords.
 
I am heading up in 2 weeks with a group of 13 other rigs. Short of the trip to and from the trails I don't plan on driving the rig. I know they aren't as friendly as harlan. From crawfords can I get away without plates? Should I just slap a tag on there because I never did get the title with this jeep so I can't get it a plate.
 
Crawfords is a good ways from the actual trails at tellico. I like crawfords but never liked staying there because it takes soooo long and burns up to much gas when your driving 30+mins to and from the trails each day. You better have tags and insurance if you come from crawfords to tellico each day..........
Stay at a cabin on the NC side of trail 1 and I highly doubt you will have an trouble....

Josh
 
Crawfords is nearly an hour from the first real trail. Guys do it without plates but you'll be traveling for 15 minutes on real roads before you get to trail 1. Trail 1 is a very long dirt road that leads to the real trails.

I'm told that people get tickets for a lack of plates even in the OHV area on the TN side, like at the top of lower 2.
 
Is there a place to put a tow rig by the trails. The group I am going with has already made reservations and there is no way to change them. I really can't afford a ticket and short of putting a plate from my tow rig on it I have no way of getting a plate anymore. Sure wish I still had access to those dealer tags.
 
You can tow up the gravel road to the pay station on the NC side, then drive from there. DO NOT DRIVE on ANY PAVED ROADS after that. If you run lower2 take a left at the top of the trail and go back out on upper2 , if you take a right and go to the bottom of the road you will be on the Tenn. side and they will write a fat ticket if you have no tags.
 
mbalbritton said:
can you not get tags for it and be legit? or does the college student budget not afford that?
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he never got the title with it he said.
Aka he stole it when someone wasn't looking :D

So he could eventually get a title but he'd have to deal with a lot of crap for not much.
Best bet would be to find a VIN of an old jeep or VW, buy that for the title/VIN, then just change register that, slapping VIN on whatever he's driving.
Could be an antique then. none of that pesky inspection crap.
But still not street legal if DMV officials pull you.
 
hscrugby said:
he never got the title with it he said.
Aka he stole it when someone wasn't looking :D
So he could eventually get a title but he'd have to deal with a lot of crap for not much.
Best bet would be to find a VIN of an old jeep or VW, buy that for the title/VIN, then just change register that, slapping VIN on whatever he's driving.
Could be an antique then. none of that pesky inspection crap.
But still not street legal if DMV officials pull you.
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lessons on breaking the law anyone DUH!!:fuck-you:
 
I never did get the title when I bought it, plus it is not even close to street legal. If I had a title it would have plates, but since I don't I can't get plates. It is a sore subject, but one that I have moved past because short of buying another jeep and grabing the vin there is nothing that can be done. I am glad that I can tow to the pay station, that will solve my problems. From the looks of it the garden at crawfords isn't much anyay so I won't need to unload at camp.
 
When I was at the Auto fair a couple of weekends ago there was a guy selling titles. Mostly for old stuff like 30's-60's but I suppose you could buy one of those and consider it a model t or something. Most of the titles I saw were Ohio, but then you could just take it to DMV and have it transfered to NC. I don't know how legal this is, but he sure had a bunch of titles and said that's what he does for a living so who knows. You might be able to get one for a cj3 or something so it's still a jeep. I believe there will be another auto fair in the fall in Charlotte at Lowes Motor Speedway.
 
That isn't a bad idea, there isn't much cj left anyway. Of course most of whats there isn't what originally came on it anyway. To many rolls and flops.
 
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