Question on old N.y. restration!

Does any boby know if late 20's,early 30's New York restrations are the same thing we use for titles today. I want to get my title work done on my ratrod.

Thanks ,truckerdaddy

 

all i know is pre late 60's or early 70's ny did not have titles, they had transferable registrations for cars. this means that you sign the back like on a title and the reg is transferred to you just like a title, and you take it down to the local dmv and they provide you with new paperwork. as early as the 20's or 30's i would guess would be the same.

 

NY registered vehicles 1972 and older still have no titles,just a transferable registration stub.In addition,NY DMV purges registration records after 7 years,this was told to me by a DMV office manager.What this means is an old NY registration may or may not be honored in another state.
What this means for us in NY is you can register a vehicle older than 72 with no paper work by signing a simple DMV form swearing you are the rightful owner.This works if the vehicle hasn't been titled or registered in another state in the recent past.I have done this procedure more than once myself.

 

Pre-1972, when you renewed your registration every year, you got a new, transferable, registration...everything on it was the same, except the expiration date. So, if you bought a new car and had it for 20 years, you'd have twenty old registrations for it...if you kept them all. Now...if some one were to come upon them, they could sell them as "valid" NY State registrations...like on ebay. If the car that they went to was currently registered in NY, and the new owner of one of these "valid" registrations tried to register a vehicle with it...BANG!..jail time. It's happened MANY times before with NYS registrations. Make DAMN good and sure that the NY registration you have is for the vehicle it goes to...unless you have a post 1972 Title...then there's only one title, and a NON transferable, with out the title, registration...