Ohio Out Of State Inspection: Fill & Download for Free

My first car, a 1980 Plymouth Horizon. August 1987: I had worked all summer to save up money for me and my high-school sweetheart (let's call him Pete) to fly from Ohio to Massachusetts for college. Days before we were set to leave, Pete's mother (an alcoholic) comes up with a brilliant idea: let's buy a car from her drinking buddy, 'cause we'll save tons of money driving to school instead of flying!Neither the boyfriend nor I has ever bought a car. We test drive it, and it seems okay. We take MY summer earnings, buy it for $700, load it up, get ready to leave...and it won't leave the driveway.We unload it, and spend a day getting something repaired, I can't even remember what. We don't tell my parents that we're delayed, because they would FREAK OUT that we are driving this lemon all the way to the East Coast. We load it up again, and this time we get all the way to Pennsylvania before the muffler falls off.We finally get to Massachusetts. Because the muffler has fallen off, the car won't pass state inspection. We don't have the money to repair it. We abandon it behind an old barn out in the country.And that is how I paid $700 for two one-way tickets from Ohio to Massachusetts, in the form of a seven-year-old Plymouth Horizon.

8 or 10. But let me give some context.The 18 year old who was driving what used to be a K5 Blazer, with NO body, windshield, gas tank behind the driver seat, no o windshield wipers, no seatbelts, a 6"lift, bald tires, no numbers. Now one summer I stopped him, warned him that it was not road worth, even though he had plates on hit. He had claimed that it was inspected and approved by the state patrol, my response was to have the patrol pay his tickets if I see him drive it again.Forward to the next summer, I see it again, but an responding to a crash, so he got a pass, see it again the following weekend, again, I'm busy, she no stop. Flash forward a few weeks of good weather and I see him again, so I go after him, he is driving around our city park, it crowded, so im 5 or 6 cars back, waiting on traffic to give me a time and place to stop him, no hurry. 7 or 8 minutes go by and he ends up circling the park 3 times. I stop him, I remind him that I had warned him about driving on the road, his response was he had just then, pulled it out, taking it to get it worked on to meet road standards, I ask if he had driven it any time that summer, he stated No, and refused to admit the truth when I told him of the several times I had seen him in the previous weeks. He went on to say he was driving it streight to the shop, and said I way lieing about circling the park, his OLN showed suspended, with work privileges, on a Sunday, with his schedule on his paperwork showing Monday thru Friday only, but insisted he was on his way to work, when I said he just claimed he was taking it to a shop, he then said, after work he would take it. Ok..which shop…xxx stated, hum, they are closed on the weekends.Again he claimed the state patrol approved his vehicle for the roadway….um NO. Not a chance OSP app ppl proved thos for road use.Flash forward, kid and dad going to show me what for and have his case in front of the judge. I lay out my 30 plus violations, but only 10 tickets, pull ORC laws about required equipment, safety, etc. His DUS, no insurance, etc. His cross, first thing, OSP I suspected it. He says that Osp inspected it and approved it.My responses was this….. “Sir, there is NO way a state agency inspected this vehicle and approved it for road use, infact I'm confident that what your trying to call a saftey inspection, was infact the typical inspection the state gives to out of state motor vehicles when obtaining an Ohio title, in that case the only thing they are checking is to Insure that the displayed and hidden vin Numbers match the title, and no other consideration is given to the vehicles roadwartherness, and if that is the case, claiming that Osp did a saftey inspection and repeating it to me and the court, is dangerously close to perjury.He tried to claim it was the first time, but I wa as prepared, I had the video from when I saw him and warned him a year before, I had 3 videos showing him passing me, or visible up ahead of me while I was too busy to stop, a d of course the video was running the 3 trips around the park.When he claimed to me each time about no warning, I told him I have the video and was prepared to play it, judge asked him if he wanted it played or was he going to withdraw the question, same for around the park, and not to work, same for the 3 incidents that summer.Also, He never said another work about the inspection.But did ask why the 9 or 10 tickets, at which time I went one by one through required equipment for EVERY motor vehicle made since 1957 (1979 K5 Blazer)He lost work privileges, paid about $1000 in fines, and never again drive that POS on the road.

Not necessarily, I bought one from a FL dealer and asked him to put FL temporary tags on it. The import process is a bit of a PITA, at least here in TX, I had to get an almost new car inspected even though first inspection is normally 3 years, and go back and forth with taxes, and show up in person at the county tax office to get plates.