Texas title question

not a parts car...just need another ***le...theoretically speaking that is...I realize you would never do anything crazy like that

 

No , not another ***le, another vin tag , this vin cannot be registered in texas, So i need a vin tag, or a parts car...."to transfer my parts over to", and then ***le that car.......

 

Man That ****s,they Dont **** Around In Texas Huh?

 

Jabber - I thought I was going to have the same problem with my T two days ago (THANK YOU Fry's auto ***le!!!) and I ended up s****ing by with a VA ***le washed through Texas. I still had to pony up the, cough, $1100 sales tax, cough, TWICE - once in Texas, once in VA - $350 , but I am now a clear TX ***le owner. I learned a few hours after I paid my second check that Alabama only required a bill of sale and not a ***le prior to 1976. Find a 1955 Lincoln in AL for cheap. Buy it. There ya go.
Hope it helps.
Thresh

*edit - obviously, they don't even have to send you the car. just the bill o' sale. Then you take the bill of sale, get it "inspected" and greensheeted and you're golden. Give me a pm if you need help with the, eh, "inspection". My guys were very good to me.

 

It's gotta be human error, that car doesn't even look crushed. Even in the slightest.

 

I find it hard to believe you can't force the TXDOT to legitimize the car if you have the car in your posession, the ***le to it and the previous owners (in person, if possible) in front of a Judge going back to prioir to it's "suppsed" crush date by this salvage company.

If you can prove the salvage company never legally or physically posessed the car, and therefor never crushed the car, then it should be reversable.

If you are 100% confident you can legal prove the history and existence and ownership of the car, get a lawyer and go head to head with TXDOT. Situations like this come up and bad or flawed laws need to be challenged.

 

I just talked to my dad down in Eufaula (Ok) and he's been in used cars and such for years up here. His suggestion was to just bring it to Oklahoma (you'll have to bring the car too) and have an address here you can use for a "residence." The local DMV agent will/is required to verify the VIN# against that which is on the ***le, and if they match, Oklahoma will cut you a ***le. If you don't bring the car, they will issue registration, but hold the ***le until the VIN# can be inspected.

If you need an Oklahoma "residence," feel free to use mine. I'd hate to see something like this car be screwed up through the DMV forever due to some clerical error. I'd think too that if the ***le is washed through Oklahoma then Texas would have to re-honor the car when it comes time to transfer.

Let me know if'n I can help.

 

I don't think the problem here is getting a ***le, it's the fact that the car is on record as being crushed in Texas. I figure any time you go to register the car it will red flag it and no ***le. The only options I see would be a "parts car" or court date.

 

Yep that car VIN can never be ***led in Texas, or any state that Texas talks to in fact. That car according to the computer does not exist any more. Texas has no mechanism to ever make it exists again even if it was an error. The law is flawed but its a 15 year old law, that no one in Austin has seen the benefit to change.

The only chance that car has of seeing the road again legally is under a new VIN. Which is why a parts car is needed to "transfer" parts over to and get inspected and registered under that clear non crushed VIN.

John this ****s to no end. I thought and thought about it last night and there is no easy solution to this. FAWK!!!!!

Let me know if you need help "swapping" parts over and drinking a few cold ones why we make it all legal and what not.

 

Yup yup.

Dammit man.

 

Goztrider, Thanks for the offer, but I'm affraid once I come back to texas to register it, it will not be able to be registered because the vin will be the same, the vin is bad, not the ***le.

I think the best route would be to find a parts car........but that is also a problem, this is the only 55 lincoln capri I've ever seen in person, not a popular car for a junkyard.

 

Jabber, I found this '53 Capri while crusing the HAMBer cl***ifieds. Might be worth a look for a VIN plate.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155940

Hope this helps!