This has always driven me nuts. Example: I go through a junk yard in Tennesse, find a scrapped 442 or old GTO. No matter what I spend on rebuilding it, I can't register it legally because its been scrapped and taken off the books!
I know there are back-door ways to get a registration, but the current system here does not allow one to do it through normal channels.
'68 428 HO M3 Monster, 4-on-the-floor! Need I say more?