Re: IML: rescuing car from woods
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Re: IML: rescuing car from woods



Get a Bill of Sale "somehow" and then use a title company, U. S. title Service, 566 St. Paul St, Rochester, NY 14605  585-342-5769 or 888-521-1891, use their forms, pay their fee, get a title in your name.  Or check with your DMV, find out what they can/will do if you have a "lost" title and only a Bill of Sale.  Since the car is no doubt not on any computer records, you might be able to work something out.  Or buy a title from a source and change the VIN tag on yours to match the bought title's number.  Haven't done that  myself, but might work.
 
Or just put plates on it from another car when you want to drive it to shows or wherever, but make sure you have the car insured, and enjoy the car and keep the "Bill of Sale" with you.  Can always say you're on the way to the DMV to register the car in case you are stopped. 
 
Passing thoughts
 
Broadway Title still operates in a few states, alas no longer in CA for me, and their system works well if your state still does business with them.  You fill out their forms, have them notarized, you pay $150, you get back a Bill of Sale from a state that did not issue titles back then, take that to your DMV, have the car verified(that numbers agree with the paperwork) and, register the car, the title comes later in the mail.  This procedure works well if the car you have in your possession came from another state.  When it was still okay in CA, I used it several times for out of state cars instead of trying to deal with ancient titles, though signed off, but on cars that had not been registered in years and may have had several sales since the old title's original signer.  The Broadway title was was easier, in my opinion.
 
 
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Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: IML: rescuing car from woods

I recently found a 50's imp in the woods, cannot determine original owner. Is there any way to get such a car out of the woods and obtain legal ownership of it? charlie 38 imperial bs cp


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