title help

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by Cape Codder

Every time I registered a car in Ma. that had never been titled I needed a bill of sale from previous owner and they did check for last registered owner. With a different state involved I am not sure if they can check last owner or not. Where on the Cape are you ? I'm just outside Hyannis and would love to check out your truck.


Bob

Those were probably vehicles that had been registered every year though.

The gent who owns the vehicle license office that I do almost all of my title changes with and buy my plates from is one of the most knowledgeable car title people I know and if he doesn't have the answer he has the phone number of someone over in the DMV office in Olympia that does. His clerks are all well trained and sharp as tacks too when it comes to dealing with situations that come up. They won't consider anything unethical or illegal but usually make things work when you have a problem that there is a legal fix to. A gal gave me a camper for my 71 pickup and couldn't find the title. The title was in her deceased husband's name and we went in together and she had the papers with his death certificate and her rights to what was in his name and they dug up the info on the title to the camper, we signed a paper, I paid transfer and tabs and we walked out the door in 15 minutes. That they knew both of us as regular long time customers didn't hurt though.

The clerks in the office in my home town stumble when you go in with anything that resembles being complicated. We probably could not have got them to do that.

timberjim36 I see that you don't have it all finished as it is pre primer, I'd get the paperwork done on it before putting primer or paint on it just to keep the cost of the bond down more than a little bit. That may end up saving you quite a bit of money on a bond as they may view it as being valued at a whole lot less at the time.

[OrrieG]

I looked for this before reading the resent posts. Here is the link to the bonded title process. I would look at the cost vs. working with someone in the original state to get a title there and transfer. Over the years I have seen vehicles cross the auction blocks here with bonded titles from other States.

https://secure.rmv.state.ma.us/Polic...edvehicles.htm