For enhancing VANET security, an autonomic trust and reputation monitoring scheme is proposed which uses a trust based data transfer protocol based on reputation and plausibility checks. The proposed framework uses autonomic principles and trust monitoring scheme to provide uniform trust information throughout the network with minimum overhead. It aims to reduce the impact of double-face attacks by isolating selfish and malicious nodes. The scheme generates local and global trust tables to evaluate node trustworthiness and identify malicious nodes for isolation from the network.