t title questions

I recently purchesed a 21 ford title at the Decatur swap meet. The guy I bought it from has been around forever. The title that i bought is from Penn. The last time the title was transfered was in 23'. The problem I have is that the tile is a photocopy. The guy said that if I had any problems to give him a call or meet him at the Pate swap meet. Has anyone ever transfered a photocopied title to texas before? Any suggestions?
Thanks for your input!
Chris

 

Everybody knows, I can't comprehend you not knowing, that a car goes with a title. When you buy a car and the current owner signs the title(properly/legally), and transfers ownership, then it's easy to register that car in any state. A piece of antique car historic memorbelia like an old title you bought at a swap meet is just that.

 

photo copy a bunch of dollar bills and tell them you will pay them with those, i think you will get the same look,

i don't know why you would buy a photo copy? that has no legal standings,i don;t know any way to use that, except to frame it , or get your money back, if you own a modelt that you built , go through the making of a title ,texas is easy enough to get that done

 

First thing any state is gonna do is determine if it is a photocopy.

Do you wonder if he's photocopied it and sold it to other T owners?
Since he's already doing something crooked, multi sales of the same title would not surprise me.

And . . . if you have problems, they're gonna be your problems and even if you can find the guy he's not gonna know what you're talking about.

Get yourself a Texas Motor Vehicle Code book, read up on it and go to your DMV or MVD or whatever it's called there and see what you have to do.

I'm sure Texas, like many other states has different ways to do things.
Dealing with a knowledgeable DMV employee is a great way to go.

If they try to lay things on you like California's $300. (at the time, God knows what it is now) out of state smog impact fee on a specially constructed vehicle, question - politely - if it really applies and get em to show it to you in the code book.
California tried to stick me with that and it took a day to get a ruling from Sacramento that it only applied to out of state cars.


Right now, California is chasing down all the fake titles and some rod owners are running scared.

I'm not gonna go into the whole California thing here, but doing the special construction title wasn't really that big a deal.
Three trips downtown with the car on a trailer and one without the car took care of everything.

Even easier if you apply for a smog exempt special construction title in California.
There's only 500 of them available every year so hit the DMV the first day they're open after new years.
They're usually all gone in a few days.

 

So, have you called him yet, because all you have is a photocopy of a title, which is useless as anything other than wall 'art'. Which is a 'problem' in my book.

I sometimes photocopy titles for my records, nothing more implied.

Your best bet is to find someone who has done this (title a vehicle in TX, preferably similar circumstances) and ask them. The DMV will be singularly unhelpful if you don't have a title, as the first thing they will tell you is that you HAVE to have a title.

Been there, seen that.

In Illinois there exists the means to obtain a 'bonded title', you may ask about that.

Next thing to do is educate yourself that possesion of a vehicle without a title is a criminal offence, punishable by time in prison.
Don't believe me?? Call up the Sheriff and ask HIM.
There may be some slight extenuating conditions, but, as far as I'm concerned, no title, not in my possesion.

Good luck, and if it helps any, I have seen other people who didn't know that a vehicle NEEDS a title.

Cosmo

 

Here's some info right here

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44274

Dawg

 

when I bought my '46, dodge pickup, I got a "bill of sale" with all the pertinent info on it and signed by both parties. The title company told me I could get a bonded title with that and some cash. And, don't kid yourself - it's always about the MONEY!

 

The answer to your question is no.You can not use a photocopy in Texas.Big no no.

 

Damn straight, look at the mess with California and their title head hunt. Their not talking about wanting anything but MONEY... and boat loads of it.

Looks like you're gonna have to take a meeting with the guy you bought your car from at the next swap meet. Otherwise, I see a lot of legal hoop jumping in your future.

 

First off, yes, what you are asking about is a bit left of the center line. To answer your question however, many early titles were produced on what amounts to today’s photocopy technology. This was done to actually prevent counterfeit titles being reproduced. You may indeed have an original title. Yes many states do have some sort of provision in their statutes to title old cars to there now rightful owners. I would advise checking into your state's regulations; it may not be all that inconvenient

 

That was my experience exactly.

At first I was going to try and hunt down an old title and do it that way, but with a bill of sale and some running around I got a real title for it fairly easy.

 

You may try the National T-bucket Aliance website. There are a lot of Texas guys with T's on the site. I know that one of them, handle tbucket101, just licensed his T within the last month or so.

http://www.nationaltbucketalliance.com/bb/