I'll second that. Don't go and do something rash like drag it out biehind the garage and just forget about it. You've got a ways to go before you'll need to worry about getting it registered. I would say that the likelyhood of someone coming back after the truck when you're just about done is about zero. And, God forbid, if they do, as someone already mentioned, you can slap a mechanic's lein on it for about $30,000. Figure the countless hours you've spent working on it at about $50 an hour, add parts, and that'd be pretty close! There are plenty of ways to go about getting a title. Don't fret over it until you're a little closer to turning the key in the ignition. One last thing you might consider: the only VIN ID's on these old buzzards are a stamping on the right frame rail next to the engine and a couple of easily removed tags on the firewall and in the glove box. While you're working on your truck, you might look around for a parts truck for cheap that has a clean title. As long as it's a 48-50, all you've gotta do is swap the tags and grind the stamp off the frame. I'll lay odds that nobody at the local cop shop or license branch will know the difference or really even care.

 

Check out www. broadwaytitle.com.

Or, you can finish the truck, haul it down to central Texas to me, take my 50 back, (I got a title for it, just havent started working on it yet), I will get a title for yours and drive yours for a couple of years while you build mine, ( building is all the fun, right?)then we can trade back!! Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

Check your local laws. I was in the position to buy a vehicle from an older gentlemen who claimed that the car was owned by a son who lived out of state. In Michigan, you must purchase a Bond for the amount that you feel the vehicle will be worth during the time you own it. Only then will the State issue you a new title. What happens, is the original owner can prove owership (title) and take possesion of the vehicle (for free). Only if you can prove that they asked you to perform work on their vehicle can you put a mechanics lein on the vehicle. The bond is meant to pay you back for any expenses you can prove to the bonding company. It's very hard for a home mechanic to prove that they are worth $50 per hour, plus you must have documented your time. Like dealing with the IRS. Needless to say, after careful consideration of swapping the title/vehicle tags to a parts vehicle or buying the same, I chose to pass on the vehicle. Just my rememberence of how things worked in Michigan.

 

Swanny, when you buy a auto mobile from the wrecking yard they only give you a reciept because they're supose to send the title to DMV so if you have a reciept from this guy then take it to the DMV and tell them you bought it from a wrecking yard and they will run a check on the VIN numbers just to make sure it wasn't stolen, just make sure the reciept has the Vin numbers on it that's how they do it here in California.

 

How do all of these kit cars get on the road? May be you can ask one of those guys that builds them. How they get a title. Hear in Maryland it does not seem that hard to get a title. At my work we have built trailers in the past and a photo and a trip to the dmv and they gave us a medel tag and a title. Also I have a 77 F150 two different vin #s. And it has that same state of Maryland vin # stamped into their medel tag. Good luck

 

i finally fount some time to go to the DMV.
the told me to call the court house and talk to someone.
i did and they lady told me ill have to send a certified letter to the guy and then show it to the court and they will make one up for me.
ill be typing a letter real soon cause i dont wanna put a truck back together and never be able to get a title.
so ill get me a title and ill be all set so i dont have to piece it out and sell it.
ill make it easier for me to get rid of the pieces.
thanks for everyones help.
all i needed was to go back to the DMV and talk to someone who wanted to help.
besides someone who was to wrapped up in their work to help a kid out.
i get mad over that.
but im just kid to some and a gentleman to others.

thanks again for the support and the advice,
swanny

 

Swanny I apologize, I gave you bad info, just looked @ Broadway Title website again and Ohio is one of several states they cannot do titles for. Glad to hear you found someone who gave a rat enough to take the time to help you. Seems like these days you get to where you expect poor service, real nice surprise when you get good service that used to be expected. Those folks at DMV, etc sometime forget that you and everyone else in your state pay their salary.

 

Ahh, a letter. I had to send one of those. In Texas they give you a letter to send, guess we're to dumb to get it right ourselfs. Anyways, this is a fun subject. Also on our titles the back has a place for when you sell the vehicle you sign it, put the date, and the millage. And then under it is where the person who buys it signs. I was handed the thing saying that all I had to do is sign the thing and go get the new title. Ya sure. Well, first off I went tot the title place and they had a problem with the date, a part of it was marked up cuase someone changed it once. So they gave me a letter that says about the same thing on the back of the title to send to the guy on the title. So I send it to him and luckily he was still alive. He had sold the car in the '70s! Whoa, not only that he also told me that a guy had called him up in the '80s to get the same letter signed. Strange, evidently the thing had been through about ten owners before I got ahold of it since this guy. He signed it (twice, he messed up the first one) and then I went to the office thing and got the title with the paper work saying that he had sold the thing to me about a week earlier. Luckily no one checked all the signatures to see if they matched. The front and back of the title were different, and so was the one on the letter. Suckers. All I can say is, it may be hard, but then again, you may be lucky. It does take time waiting though.

Clayton

 

i was told i would have to wrie a letter.
then when i got the card back then i was to take it to the cort and they would give me a form.
then would have to show it to the judge and then they will make a title for ohio.
all i know is all the goverment stuff is becomin rediculas.
all they do is complain they dont have money but they keep jacking up the taxes and that.
it is becoming a business more then a government.
they are out to screw over the people.
but that my opinion.

swanny

 

Alabama is real loose on their title requirements on older vehicles. Here in sunny Florida if you buy it from a salvage yard it will have a salvage title that can't be returned to a driver title. Glad Alabama is close to me. I haven't needed their services but a friend of mine did. He agreed to buy a car from me then took one receipt were he paid down on the car to Alabama and got a tittle issued. I never saw him the car or any more money. That was in 1975. Loose can be good or bad.

Good luck