Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: amc titles & saving AMC intermediates

Not getting a title is crazy. I think I told you about the guy who used to work with us that bought a 57 Chevy spent a bunch I think over 10 grand and who knows how many hours restoring it and when he got it done he decided he better get the title changed over to his name. He found out it had a couple of thousand dollar lien on it. He said he went to the loan company to pay it off but they wouldn't let him they said they would only deal with the guy who they loan the money to. I can't remember what happen to the guy who sold him the car he didn't give a damn was in jail or something like that. Anyway the loan company sent a repro guy out to get the car. They took sealed bids on the car and he didn't have the highest bid. He said he saw the manager of the loan company driving it a couple of months later. He went to a lawyer over it and the lawyer said they could go after the guy who sold him the car but only for the couple of thousand he paid for the car all the money and work he put into was just gone. Actually in Louisville now you can't even take a car to the crusher now unless you have a junk title on it. A couple of years ago a couple of guys were going around and stealing church vans and sold them for scrap. I think they got about a dozen of them. At that time scrap yards weren't required to get any id are anything they just gave the guys the money for them and crushed them. You know I could see them doing one or two but you would have thought after they drove a few of the vans in with the name of the church on the side they would have called someone.

Terry

From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 3:34 PM
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: amc titles & saving AMC intermediates

Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Nice looking 74 Matador coupe in rare Brilliant Green color

http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/2660465647.html

And Marc mentioned:

What's the deal with all these people who want to sell a car but aren't organized enough
to get a title? I'm seeing a lot more of this lately.
Maybe it's cuz titling fees have gotten so friggin' outrageous that more people are
thinking it's not worth it to bother. I know in VA it costs a minimum of $50 ($35 minimum
tax, $10 titling fee, etc) just to get a piece of paper that says you own a parts car or
future project car...
-- Marc

Most 'bonded' titles are in the $250 range now. To me still a bargain to secure a car you
may or may not fix up or may/may not part out.

This beautiful 67 Ambassador wagon with 343 4 barrel the guy emailed me months ago with
photos, was basically looking to give itaway if someone restore it. Uber rare color and a
woodie to boot:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1967-AMC-Ambassador-wagon-343-4bbl-restorable-extra-spare-parts-shop-manual-/290621296042?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item43aa610daa

although he mentioned it 'might end up as parts car' for someone fixing up a AMX or
Javelin. Which....is what has happened to thousands of 'big body' AMC cars thru years,
cannibalized for their engine, or trans. I'm a big fan of six cylinder Javelins but few
exist as many people even in 1970s, used to drop 390s, 401s or Chevy something in
there....or they got parted out to use parts on AMX or V8 Javelin. A lot of this was and
still is, supply & demand you know.

Not big, if any, market for four door, or wagon AMC anything. There is rare 360V8 N code
Hornet Sportabout wagon in Phoenix now for months. Rare car! There is a neat 69 Rebel
wagon for sale in New Orleans craigslist for sale for $4K/obo, nice car but will be hard
to find someone willing to give 1/2 of that for it sadly.

Shoved down at near bottom of the AMCS FOR SALE file, formerly the Shut Up & Drive Lists
on my site is some thoughts about 4 doors and wagons.....written back when Al Gore
invented the internet while filming love story or whatever that drivel was. It talks about
how hard a market it was.....in the 1980s....for 4 door and wagons to sell.

http://www.planethoustonamx.com/Shut_Up_Files/amc_for_sale.htm

Even though 4 door and wagons were integral part of aMC day to day bread and butter sales,
still tough to sell in 2011. So someone buys a say, Ambassador 4 door with 401 for $1200
and out comes drivetrain and sell it for more. Sad to say but that is how it has always
been, and that is coming from a big fan of 'intermediates' Ambassador/Rebel/Matador
series.