How bad can it get? Selling old titles.

[daveco]

I'm sure this will not last long...

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ftw/cto/2985387124.html

[charger chris]

what good are titles with out the car. come on people?

[404NOTFOUND]

There's a guy around here who goes to all the swap meets with many huge books of old titles. He must have hundreds of them. I never could understand why.

[daveco]

Worthless...unless you have no morals.

[Indygenerallee]

Gotta love idiots that rebody.

[kab69440]

With all the cars sold minus titles out there, the market certainly exists.

[charger chris]

right. comes down to morals and i hope he has them for the right reason.

[charger_fan_4ever]

Lots of rats in the mopar world. Locally a year or two ago a dude was selling a 69 hemi rr in a box. You got the registration, Vin/fender tag and the body #'s hacked off the car for $9,000. Couldn't believe it was being advertised on the internet.

[dixiestillalive]

Not that I have done anything twisted like that but in the Hot Rod world it is hard to get your project model T on the road without a title/VIN number in some states like California.  Where I live we don't use titles on older cars, only a bill of sale which is nice if you stay here but you could have difficulty if you moved to one of the anti-old car Nazi states. From what I understand California only issues a few hundred "homemade" car titles per year and they are fought over, especially with aftermarket autobody/rolling chasis folks doing business out there. So In the Charger world, a guy finds a couple Chargers in a junk yard pulls the pieces together to make a car and then uses another title (if necessary) to get it on the road again. Do people scam? yes. Do people save old cars? yes. Think of it as a kind of "organ donation" to keep something that otherwise would have died alive and kicking.

[mauve66]

i could see a market for people looking for old titles/registrations for THEIR car, when i found the granddaughter of Marys' original owner i was so hoping there was a box somewhere of all that old stuff, but no...............  the original owners husband was in the car parts business too so i would of thought he saved everything but then he died a month or 2 after buying it for her so.............

[aussiemuscle]

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[Benji]

In 1971 I bought a 1931 Model A Ford pickup truck with no title, so I bought a title for $10.00 at a swap meet.  On a Model A the engine number is the ID number for the entire vehicle as they didn't stamp the bodies with any numbers.  After I had the engine rebuilt I stamped the number of the title on the engine boss and got it inspected by the police.  I then got a legit title.  Otherwise unless I had the original engine and title I would have been screwed.  After 40 years can you imagine how many Model A engines were blown up or had cracked blocks due to no antifreeze?  Hundreds of thousands I'm sure.

Benji

[Alaskan_TA]

In 1971 I bought a 1931 Model A Ford pickup truck with no title, so I bought a title for $10.00 at a swap meet.  On a Model A the engine number is the ID number for the entire vehicle as they didn't stamp the bodies with any numbers.  After I had the engine rebuilt I stamped the number of the title on the engine boss and got it inspected by the police.  I then got a legit title.  Otherwise unless I had the original engine and title I would have been screwed.  After 40 years can you imagine how many Model A engines were blown up or had cracked blocks due to no antifreeze?  Hundreds of thousands I'm sure.

Benji

You just admitted to committing a felony.

[hatersaurusrex]

Statute of limitations = long since passed.

The bad part is someone somewhere will wind up with it and pay big $$$ because it appears original.   Then again, it's not like forgeries aren't all over the place in every aspect of life.   A well-respected museum bought a supposedly ancient statue several years back for something like 7 million dollars, with a leading expert in the field doing the inspection.   If someone wants to believe it bad enough and has the cash, it's a ready market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_kouros

Noone has admitted it's a fake, but if you're the dumbass who authorized a 7 million dollar purchase, you're never going to admit that at the risk of committing career suicide.

An old ford truck kind of pales in comparison.