In North Carolina if a car is over 35 years old and purchased out of the state of North Carolina, it has to go thru a DMV inspection. They will issue you tags and registration for the car and give you the paper work for the the DMV inspection, you have one year to have the car inspected, if you do not get it inspected, they pull the tags and registration. My last car came from out of state, it took them about 10 minutes to inspect the car. He checked the vin on the dash, went under the hood, next he was in the trunk and then he was inside the car. Then he tells me everything is ok and prints me out a paper showing it had been inspected, a few weeks went by and the title shows up. It was kind of a pain in the rear-end, but it is nice to know everything was ok. They are trying to change the law now to include all cars over 35 years old, not just the ones purchased out of state.