Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Title question

Maine, Alabama and Mississippi quickly come to mind for states theat didn't (not sure if they do still) issue titles. The 71 Matador 2 door I had with 14,000 miles on it (and I put a whopping 250 miles onm it in 11 years) shown here was sold new at Bill Whiten in Birmingham. Check out all the original paperwork here. In one, you will see the original Alabama 'title' which is a bill of sale basically. I sold this car for $2650 after a third time on ebay and fellow flew in and drove it home to Marietta, GA, so ya'll in that neck of woods keep eyes open for it, neat little car.

Since Texas mentioned there are a variety of ways to get titles for vehicles. Yes, you have to take it to a DPS station for inspection where a trooper goes all over it. Usually the vehicle has to have at least two VINS on it so hopefully your plastic crappy door tag is still intact, or be prepared to pull off your steering box, not that all of the VIN's are partially stamped behind there which is urban legend for some reason. But you can get a title thru a variety of ways. For instance if a mechanic does work on your car and you don't pay, the mechanic seizes the vehicle and gets mechanic's lien, then later title. Salvage title or storage titles. I have gotten DOZENS of them from police auctions and storage lots here in Houston, as used to go to their auctions, and buy Gremlins, Javelins, Hornets, even AMXs for as little as $20 and as high as $1000...but they have notary and title person there on premise day of auction......whereas you are issued a title as soon as you pay for the vehicle and associated taxes. Running or not, a good 70%-80% of the cars were NOT running, some even no engine....I simply pushed, pulled, dragged, and some drove....them next door to my warehouse and shoved them in there, then went back to maybe bid on another AMC.

I may also add that I was the ONLY person to ever bid on these American Motors cars in the 80s and 90s, and if I didn't bid on them......they went directly to pcik a part www.houstonpickapart.com whereas it is Texas Death Row and the car, no matter how complete and desirable, would last 2-6 weeks in the yard before gettign crushed. I can easily tell you of stuff people consider 'rare' and 'collectible' from SX/4 SCCA factory sponsered race cars, to SC/Ramblers, Machines, AMXs, convertibles, the list is endless and well over 11,000 AMCs since 1983. Seems I just wrote something about this again on the www.amccars.net site 'amc forum' and also mentioned that AMC *ALSO* had a car crushing program.

This is whole thread:

http://amccars.net/cgi/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1216409770

but this was simply my reply:

http://amccars.net/cgi/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1216409770/30#30

anyways, back to titles, if in Texas, yes a variety of ways to get a title, and the 'process' of going thru the motions of hearings, sending out certified letters and making every effort to get ahold of the previous owner(s) who may or may not want to cooperate with you is long and cumbersome that is why you see some simply change tags, which is another story for another day.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Hal

To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 9:15 AM

Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Title question

Texas is a "hemroid" about regitration. I tried to get this car registered, sent regitered letters to last owner(no response) and eveything then they said it had to be running before they would consider it for a title and it had to pass a Texas Department of Public Safety inspection at the DPS station. Well the engine(304) is not in the car yet but when told this they said come back when it is.
Lost in Wichita Falls, TX

--- On Sun, 8/17/08, lumina333 <lumina333@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: lumina333 <lumina333@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Title question
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 8:53 AM

I seems that my state is pretty lax about registration specifics. I
have registered 2 Gremlins here, a 76 and a 74. Both were registered
as 74. The previous owner of the 76 got the car from his brother who
had bought it off another guy whose mother had passed (it was
originally her car). Noone could find the title so the owner told me
he just registered it as a 74 to avoid the hassle. Guess my state
doesn't check VINs that closely because it was clearly a 76 VIN on
the car. Of course, when I bought it, I left it as a 74. ~Lu~
--- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, Hal <strlcuckoo_ 46@...>
wrote:
>
> Just my luck, it is a 76
>
> Lost in Wichita Falls, TX
>
> --- On Sat, 8/16/08, lumina333 <lumina333@. ..> wrote:
>
> From: lumina333 <lumina333@. ...>
> Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Title question
> To: BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Saturday, August 16, 2008, 2:16 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> In some states, it depends on the year if it requires a title or
just
> a Bill of Sale to be registered. In my state, any vehicle prior to
> 1975 does not require a title to be registered. So my 74 Gremlin
has a
> bill of sale only - the state did not issue me a title, but
allowed me
> to register the car. As long as I paid the revenue taxes, they
were
> happy. Do you have a bill of sale for your car? If so, check Texas
> registration requirement laws for the title cut off year (i.e.
when
> did TX begin requiring titles on vehicles?). You might try a title
> search if the auto was ever titled or apply for a lost title.
Check
> with your revenue department about this process. Otherwise, I'll
write
> you a bill of sale for the state of AL if your vehicle is pre-75.
> It'll cost you though..... ....;-) LOL {Joking} ~Lu~
> --- In BaadAssGremlins@ yahoogroups. com, "HEL" <strlcuckoo_ 46@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I know that some states do not issue titles for cars of our
vintage,
> > they go by Bill of Sale to register. So if I bought a Gremlin
from
> say
> > GA. I would only have a Bill of Sale and the Texas DOT would
make a
> > title for it( I guess). Has any one done this in Texas? If I had
a
> car
> > and was having trouble getting the previous owner to answer my
> > certified letters does anyone think I could go this route if I
could
> > find someone in a state using Bills of Sale to write me one?
> >
>

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