1967 B'cuda coupe parts car $750
No chance you could get a storage lien on it, and have the state issue you a new title?
It's my understanding you have to be a state licensed tow and storage lot to do this easily. Otherwise you have to send a registered letter to the previous owner the car was titled to (who I don't know, and due to privacy laws they can't tell me who it is, so how do you find out?). If you don't get a response after 30 days, then the car has to be inspected by the hwy patrol (that form costs $27.50, and I would have to haul it 50 miles one way to take it to them, they don't come to you), you have to have it appraised by two different dealers to determine a fair price so they can collect the sales tax, you have to send in 3 or 4 forms, pay sales tax and title fees (more $), then, if and when they decide to issue a title it could very well be a salvage title since the car isn't complete. I won't even go into the process to get a 'good' title after a salvage one has been issued.
I did this one one car. It took 6 months and 2 trips to Jeff City after they rejected it the first time. The second trip the lady said, 'what's all this extra paperwork? you should have gotten a title a long time ago' No one up there knows what they are doing, or what the other department is doing. I'm not dealing with them ever again if I can help it. I don't need that kind of stress in my life.
Dallas
BTW, I was also told by a friend it is easy to get a bonded title. So I called Jeff City and asked the lady about it. She had never heard of the process so she looked it up. She told me that yes, MO has bonded titles but she couldn't figure out how it's done.
Sorry for the long ranting reply (and I left out a lot of details, just got tired of typing), but I get whizzed off every time I think about dealing with that place, and the above incident is just one of many I've been through.
