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Re: Title issues
A good reason to thoroughly investigate the vin of a "was abandoned on the farm" trucks before spending a plugged nickle of your hard earned money on it after you buy it. Pre internet it was pretty easy for a vehicle to totally disappear if it got out of the state it was registitered and stolen in. A local law enforcement might run the plates on a vehicle abandoned in a field but if didn't have plates or the plates were off another similar vehicle that wasn't reported stolen that was about as far as they went investigating it.
I have that fear that one of these days one of the guys on here who is asking how to get a title for the "field find" truck he or she has spent thousands of dollars and hours on will show up as a stolen truck and the guy had his trash hauler beater stolen from his yard 25 or 30 years ago will be celebrating like the guy in the story after being tracked down.
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Founding member of the too many projects, too little time and money club.
My ongoing truck projects:
48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six.
71 GMC 2500 that is getting a Cad 500 transplant.
77 C 30 dualie, 454, 4 speed with a 10 foot flatbed and hoist. It does the heavy work and hauls the projects around.
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