Feel bad, but not guilty

SGBARRACUDA said

Let it be a lesson when you sell a vehicle, Make a bill of sale listing the VIN, Date of the transaction, Mileage and have it signed by you, buyer and a witness. List the fact that the buyer is buying it as is with no warranty implied or offered. People love to buy a car , throw a plate on it and drive it that way so they don't have to pay taxes and transfer fees. I'm going thru hell right now on a 70 Duster that I bought from a man years ago out of NY. Had the a Fl. tittle in his name from 6/2018. NY was a non tittle state before 1973, man I got it from did nothing wrong, he took the NY tag registration to Fl. DMV and had a tittle issued in his name. Sometime in 7/2018 the guy in NY register the Duster again so that when I went to put it in my name. the Fl. DMV computer would not allow that to happen as it was registered in NY one month after Fl. issued a tittle. Now I'm stuck.Fl. DMV says NY DMV will not return many phone call attempts. Bottom line? Get it put in your name. Had I decided to put a lot of money in this car while leaving it a "OPEN" Tittle, when I tried to sell it I would be out money and maybe a law suit.

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Bottom line? Get it put in your name....
Yup. Soon as you buy it transfer it. Neighbor was a big GM 68-72 a-body fan. He drove by a 442 daily, just sitting in an Orange tree field in Mesa AZ. Neighbor knocked on the door of the house. Was told that the owner of it was in prison....and was not getting out very soon. Person he was speaking with was the mother of the guy that "owned" the car. Lady told him that she needed to talk with her son before selling it. Son said sell it....but did not know where the title was. In AZ getting a replacement title is easy, just go to DMV with an ID that matches last known owner. Hang up is if the vehicle has not been registered in 6 years the car is no longer in the DMV system. Car had not been on the road in close to a decade so it was not in the system. Dave just figured he would get a mechanics lien put on the car, at that time it only took 30 days or so for the vehicle to be issued a clean title in the name of the lien-holder. Well....Dave & his brother, who though they were going to make a killing buying/restoring cars....decided to restore the car and worry about the title later. Pumped $35k into restoring it...went to start the paper work process....part of which is for DMV to run the VIN, making sure it was never reported stolen etc. Well...they found the owner that the car was last actually title to...and it was not the inmate...turns out the inmate "borrowed" the car from a family member and never returned it....nothing was ever done about as the guy that had the last title had joined the Military...and was killed in combat. The mom of the man killed over seas had no idea her son even owned the car....wanted the car back...My neighbor told her that he wanted the funds put into the restoration paid to him before he released the car. Neighbor got a letter from a Lawyer...later that day the transport company showed up with a Mesa PF escort to retrieve the car...