Title issues

[dwcsr]

here is the best reason to have a title in your name with a legit looking vin before you dump a pile of cash into it.

http://www.chron.com/cars/article/St...#photo-5923917

[fabguy]

Lol, wow that's a huge lesson learned for alot of people

[dwcsr]

It was like Christmas for that old guy. Imagine leaving your junked out roller out front, some one steals it and you get it back like it was a new car.

I'll bet the old sellers and buyers are going to be at each other to get money back

[whitedog76]

That's why you always make sure you have the title in hand. None of the "I lost it," or "Never had one," garbage.

[63 & 64 Bowties]

Wow, great story and great lesson. It always amazes me how many guys spend big bucks on their ride (members here included) THEN try to figure out how to get a title.

[mr48chev]

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.

[dwcsr]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

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.

I think your right , now departments can cross check and find out whats up they catch a lot at the ports now that would have just slipped by that and the fact that more of these truck and cars are being sold and fixed up that the stolen ones are coming out of the woods so to speak. That next barn find may be an expensive one if your not carefull

[Highsider]

This is the amazing part to me:

"The CHP and U.S. customs had found the car in a shipping container just days before it was to set sail, bound for a buyer in Australia."