Registration Process or How to Pull Your Hair Out

Went to the MTO today with everything I needed to get my VIN.  The first step in getting my car legal for the road.  This isn't going to be as easy as I had hoped.

Everything I've done is based on this:  http://www.canadianrodder.com/features/fyi/registering.htm

Today started off with a trip to the lawyer to get my Affidavit/Declaration done.  This was pretty painless.  Wrote everything up, I signed it, they stamped it. Done.

I then directly to the MTO (Square One location in Mississauga) to get my VIN.  First issue.  The person helping me has never done this but he knows it can be done, just not sure how.  Other person in the office said she hasn't had anyone in 3 years ask her to register a "Kit Car" and she can't remember what the process is.  Fan-freaking-tastic.

They call Kingston, where MTO main office is, they talk for a while and agree to fax over everything I've brought in so Kingston can look at it.  I have a seat and wait for 30 minutes while they do this.  They come back asking for a Declaration of Origin on my engine.  Not something, according to the URL above, that I need.  They don't know where I can get such a declaration, they simply want it.  Considering I bought the '94 Camaro engine from a scrap yard that thought it was a '96, I don't think the scrap yard will be any help whatsoever.  They seem to think the engine is new, even though I keep telling them it is used and from a scrap yard in Michigan. 

I talked to them a little longer trying to explain that the engine is used, and I don't believe I need such a declaration.  All I get is a "Kingston said" response.  After talking to the more senior official at the local office it was agreed they would take copies of my paper work, and look into it and call me.  It's currently 6pm and they haven't called me.

That's where things sit now.  I'm sure that if I had an MTO official that has dealt with kit cars before, I wouldn't have to go through this bureaucratic hell, but that's where I am.  If anyone knows of someone at the MTO with more experience in such things I'd love a contact name and number.

Argh.  This is going to take much longer than I imagined.  *sigh*