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03-20-2015, 06:17 PM | #1 |
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Car title value.
Just noticed a listing for a car for sale that will sell for 1/2 the price if purchased without the title. Always thought the title went with the car? I may be naïve, but how can a title, alone, have any value to this seller without the car? This is a pre-war vehicle. I bet some of us have old titles sitting around and maybe we can cash in on them.
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03-20-2015, 06:39 PM | #2 |
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Re: Car title value.
Maybe the car doesn't have a title and the seller doesn't want to go through the trouble to provide one without substantial reimbursement.
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03-20-2015, 06:54 PM | #3 |
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Re: Car title value.
'Cause he knows where you live and is planning on reclaiming the car after you restore it. No joke.
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03-20-2015, 08:02 PM | #5 |
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Re: Car title value.
You've been offered some great advice. I'd take it to heart.
Legally, the guy that owns the title, also owns the car. And, it does not matter how many times the car may have been sold. A title DOES go with the car. Titles are not "owned" by anyone but the state that issued them.
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03-20-2015, 08:37 PM | #6 |
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03-20-2015, 09:03 PM | #7 |
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Re: Car title value.
no way an honest guy will take half price for a car. Just my 2 cents.
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03-21-2015, 01:23 AM | #8 |
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Re: Car title value.
I still have my title to a truck that was stolen twenty years ago. I keep this title just in case some day the truck is found and returned.
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03-21-2015, 08:25 AM | #9 |
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Re: Car title value.
Titling laws vary from state to state. Some states do not require a title after a car becomes old enough to be considered an antique. Apparently a bill of sale is all that is necessary. My home state does not operate that way so I wonder how that works out for the buyer and seller in other states. To my way of thinking a car should have a title regardless of age.
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03-21-2015, 08:38 AM | #10 |
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No titles ever issued for cars prior to 1972 in New York State, just a registration.
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03-21-2015, 09:10 AM | #11 |
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Re: Car title value.
A person that even offers a vehicle in this manner should be considered shady. After all, just what does he plan to do with a legal document to a motor vehicle he no longer owns? Is he planning on building another one and use the same title? It he going to sell the document to some other unsuspecting builder that needs a legal document?
I would even question whether that document even matches the vehicle for sale. More than a few folks like this have ended up in court over "fiddling" with legal documents. Boyd Coddington got into serious troubles when getting involved with "cloning" of Cobra sports cars. |
03-21-2015, 09:36 AM | #12 |
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I'm not sure the seller here was looking to keep title and sell the car without it. If the seller has no title and has to get one, it's gonna cost him time and money. If you take the car "as-is" (maybe as a parts car), then the price is less. Simple.
As far as selling titles, that's shady in my book. |
03-21-2015, 09:44 AM | #13 |
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.........and is the main-most reason the "Boss" allows no part of that activity here on the 'Barn. DD
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03-21-2015, 10:27 AM | #14 |
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Here is a scenario I can imagine. Lets say you have 2 early cars that are the same make, model, etc. One is way better then the other but has no title, one is a "parts car" with a title. You sell or scrap the bad one and keep the title and re stamp the frame of the better vehicle grind the numbers off the "parts car frame". Not necessarily shady. I admit I have a set of Ford frame stamps.
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Most states, perhaps all, require titles of vehicles that are scrapped be returned to the State.
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03-21-2015, 01:57 PM | #16 |
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It sounds like the guy wants to do something that is not legal. I think I would just back away from him.
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03-21-2015, 02:44 PM | #17 |
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03-21-2015, 03:00 PM | #18 |
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I think the thing to ask in this situation would be "why" to the seller, as many have brought up, it could just be that the seller does not have a title and knows what effort it will take to get one, or as mentioned he has a title in hand and is just selling as a parts car and plans to use the title elsewhere..which is not good...but basing assumptions without asking the seller a few questions, is not the way to go about it.
Personally if I came across that ad (even without interest in the car), I'd ask the seller "why?". |
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03-21-2015, 04:19 PM | #20 |
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The problem comes with repro bodies. If you buy a repro body, it is easy to register with a title. So you keep the old title, and use it on your new or old frame and sell the body as parts. Nothing illegal there.
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