Heres a bit of heads up for some of you who may not have purchased a vehicle from another state that does business via a registration and a bill of sale, such as New York or New Hampshire, that I know of for sure. If your home state honors ***les, and you are going to come in with a signed over registration and a bill of sale, I suggest you call your local registar's office and find out their proto call before you hand over your money for the vehicle. Case in point, I just bought a vehicle in New Hampshire. They use the Registration, and sign it over on the back side. So far so good. But you will also need a Bill of Sale to go with it, and this )_*&&^)*(&&%^ state of Nebraska, you MUST have a notorized Bill of Sale. OK, I did that too. Then it's time to come into the state to have it inspected. DUMB S.O.B sheriff's deputy, looks at it and say's nope, that's just a registration, it says so on the front of it. )*(&(*&^&^&^ So I argue some more, and the )*&)*(&(*& lady at the window calls over to the State dept of motor vehicles. OH Yes..we do accept out of state registrations, with a notorized bill of sale. )(**&*&. That's what I've been telling you people,. why won't you listen to someone that might be smarter than you? So, I get it inspected by the Sheriff's office, and I get the ok to go to the court house to get my plates. Here we go again, the _)(_*&((&^(^& S.O.B at the court house says we won't accept a registration in lieu of a ***le". _)(**&*&&^ "But I've got a Bill of Sale, It's Notorized, I've got the back of the registration signed off, I've got my proof of insurance, I just went thru this for an hour over at the Sheriff's office." "Take this registration and stick it up your ***, and I suggest you go and read the ***le laws of this state". So, the moral of the story??? It's a good thing I have friends in Low places, cause I think I'm going to take it to some other state, and use a friend's address to ***le and register it. I think I'd be better off if I just drove around in a stolen car. A whole lot less h***le. HellRaiser
I've found approaching a sheriif with a registered voter, in a western sparsly populated county, at election time, can hasten the process.Sometime it's just about timing.
You have to get someone to show you the actual laws on it and take it with you to show them. Here in New York you can get a registration on a car with no paperwork just by filling out the right forms and giving them some proof of serial number or VIN - but you need to know up front the forms to ask for and how to use them. When I registered a '50 Chevy I went to two DMVs - one gave me **** so I went to the other one and they knew what to give me right off the bat. Since then I went to a third DMV to pick up more forms and the lady kept asking me if I had all the information and knew all I needed - I think I asked her 5 times, just give me the forms (numbers), before I got them.
I am located in S.C. if I go to the DMV and just want a ***le you have to take the vehicle and let them see it to verify the vin # but if you tell them you want to register and buy a tag for the vehicle they do not need to see it. I have also bought cars from the state of GA. with only a bill of sale and registration and S.C. excepted it and give me a ***le in my name.
The pisser of this story is, I did call ahead of time to the court house, I did verify with them that I was in fact bringing a transferable registration because it was prior to 1960, I did have a notorized bill of sale, everything as I was supposed to have. I drove the car to the Sheriff's office so they could verify the Vin and I still got ****ed arround at the Sheriff's office and again at the court house. Talk about a Monkey ****ing a FootBall or the right hand not knowing what the left was doing. I guess I wasn't to let on I was smarter than they were...Damn PODUNK TOWN...If I had brought in some ole John Deere tractor I probably wouldn't have had to go thru this B/S. HellRaiser
Had the same problem with my MGB GT, it got sorted out after I called the central state office of the Ohio BMV, even after they threatened to have me ******ed out of the license bureau after being yelled at for swearing in the presence of some Mexican kid who didn't understand what I was saying anyways.
Usually Highway Patrol has a handle on anything vehicle code related. Also, it pays to write down the name of the person you talked to.
MV51, MV51-B (only needed if you've owned it less than 12 months I believe). That, proof of serial number - pencil etch or photo - some sort of proof of weight - your reciept, iinsurance cards, the green sheet (MV80?) and you should be in business. MV51 requires previous owner's signature, name and address. MV51-B also requires some kind of information with regard to who had it last and why they can't be contacted. Nothing needs to be notarized. You get a non-transferrable registration and plates on the spot, while Albany checks hard copy records to make sure the car hasn't been reported stolen. If it's clean, you get a transferrable in 6-9 weeks or so. But bear in mind the NYS DMV computers only keep records 7 years or so, if no one remembers the last guy's address or anything, the only way they'd know to question is if the serial comes up in their records. As far as proof of weight goes, I have had clerks on several occasions look up other of the same car to get a weight - once she did it on her own because she thought the weight was too high on a car (!) and reduced it a bit - so it pays to become well-versed in ID numbers for your car, as there is no other way to look them up. They like to be able to find at least three other examples. You might also try bringing in something like a Standard Catalog Of American Automobiles (or one of the make-specific books) by Krause which lists weights in the figures.
Funny you should mention New Hampshire. I went to regester a truck, and they told me the Vin number was garbage, at least some official term for it. So I was so pissed that I went home and cut the damned number out of the truck, and brought it back to them. Then it was something like, "sorry it must have been a computer glitch." And finally I got what I wanted.
I bet if you went back in with written information regarding the fact that New Hampshire does not utilize ***les you'd have better luck. Also, sometimes just a different counter person is all that is needed. Having something verifiable and in writing (printed off the New Hampshire DMV website for instance) would be a lot more believeable than "because I say so". Good luck.
that is why minnesota does not like new york ***les and old registrations you have to figure out what does work and what does not work in your sate..new york stuff is not worth the h***le here..i'm sure it's fine in many other states
with all this talk of monkies ******* footballs youd think one would see atleast 1 monky shapped football
For FL residents, the DMV Procedures Manual is available online. In cases like this you can print out the procedure which tells them step-by-step how to get your car ***led and registered. The forms are also available online, so those can be filled out ahead of time as well. The local DMV that I use is pretty knowledgeable and helpful.
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