i did a search and couldn't find anything and i looked on the CO dmv site and still nothing, so heres the story... i drive past this hotel for the past month or so on the way home and theres a decent looking 66-77 bronco outside rottin(it pisses me off) so today i go in and ask the lady at the desk she checks the plates and says it doesn't belong to anyone at the hotel she says its been there for atleas 3 weeks without moving so shes says if you find away to get a ***le and tow it away its mine!!!! so now i need to find how long a vehicle has to sit to be considered abandoned and how to get a new ***le for it. any hel would be great. thanks Cory
I would run the plates (services are available online) and try and track down an owner to see if it's for sale. It's not like we're talking about a car thats been there since the 70's...
if it's sitting at a hotel , meaning it's sitting on someone else's property....have the hotel owner call the police and have them run the plates. it sounds fishy to me...you may be better off staying away from it..or have the cops deal with it although it was very generous of her , the lady behind the desk can't give you property they don't own
Yes, try and track down the owner, if the cops have it towed, it will have to go through the "system" and if the owner doesn't bail it out, or any lien holders claim it, it will end up at the monthly auction some time (?) in the future.
Most states have laws on the books covering abandoned vehicles. In this state, or at least this county one can get what is known as a Sheriff's ***le to a car that has been abandoned on his/her property for X amount of time. The local law enforcement do have to do a search on the car to make sure that it isn't stolen and or have a lein against it. I'd find out who it belongs to and if it is stolen or if there is a lein against it. The last thing you want to do is drag a stolen vehicle home and you sure don't want to drag home and start working on a rig with a lein on it and have the repo guy show up at your door to pick it up. There is also the possibility that the owner is in jail or that most likely that is where the rig quit and the owner/driver just walked off and left it. Or you could tow it home and in 30 days send the registered owner a bill for storage of the vehicle. I'd want a letter from the motel operator stating that she had you tow it though.
Could be stolen and abandoned there by the thief and no one has contacted the police yet. The last thing you want to do is get caught with a stolen car. I had a car that was stolen and abandoned in a church parking lot and thankfully the church peolpe called the police and I got my car back.
Don't know about hotels in your neck of the woods but here in SoCal that vehicle would have been towed off immediately, parked in an impound lot until the impound costs reached the value of the vehicle, and then auctioned off. Oh yeah, if the owner showed up he could pay the impounds or bid with the others at the auction. Cops around here don't have the time or motivation to search vehicle registrations, that is unless the vehicle is involved in a crime or accident.
I know the privacy laws have changed this, but I used to get plates or VIN from the car and run to the DMV and for a couple of bucks they would give me the name and address of the last known owner.
Seems to me the thing to do here is make an anonymous call to the police, or ask an officer, what to do in this situation - without giving them anything specific to this vehicle or where it is - so you know how to proceed.
Me too. I intercepted a car from towtruck on the way to the junk yard one time. I called the state and said the car was abandoned on my property and didn't want to get the owner in trouble, but would like to notify the owner. When I called the owner it turned out to be a STATE COP. Quick thinking made me tell him I bought it from the guy he gave it to so I could get some parts off of it. Told him the junk yard wouldn't take it without a ***le. He signed it and gave it to me. Drove that ****er for a couple years.
Having a hotel clerk "give" you a car isn't really a satisfactory way to acquire a desirable vehicle. Most of the advice given already is valid, most cops won't run plates 'jist fer grinz', but there are (as previously stated) ways to have DMV just tell you who owns the car. You'll probably have to provide some identification, and sign a form stating exactly why you want that info (these keeps the stalkers and other perverts from finding out who that blonde dish is in the old T-bird and where she lives). I always ***ume that there's very good ($$$$$$) reason people abandon vehicles. "...there's one thing that I think ought to be understood...it ain't how you look, it's what you got under the hood..." dj
oh i know that to be true...ill talk to a cop and see how ill handle the situation and let you all know as for running the plates i talked to the dmv and its not something i really want to get into right now i went back and left a note on the wiper i looked inside it and it had a bunch of empty packs of smokes nothin that was of any value and the stereo was ripped out so ill see what the cops say and handle it from there
be a nice guy and surrender the plates to dmv,,,they will give you a reciedt with the name and address of the owner
Colorado is th Bronco capital of the world! every time i go there i seem to find more sitting and waisting away. brought 2 back one trip. i was eying a bronco that sat in front of a hotel in Ouray (probably spelled wrong) forever. every time i go there to hunt its still there, just chillin.. you can tell it never moves.
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