joewill wrote:
it is basically a process called title washing. a process where a salvage title, or a lack of title can get a new title. The outline of the process has been discussed in this thread. what you have to do is find someone in a 'bill of sale' only state ( I guess VT is one of them but there are others) where the state will accept a bill of sale and then create a title to your contact. your contact gets the title and then sign it over to you. Now you have an out of state title for the vehicle, signed over by the supposed previous owner that is acceptable in your problem state.
your state now will accept the title for trasnsfer to your name. this process also clears milage descrepencies, salvage titles, and all other branding that states do. This is how flooded, totaled cars from hurricane katrina showed up all around the country with clear titles.
this process will also force you folks that did not pay state sales tax for the transaction to now pay it. since you avoided it by never transferring the title.
look up title washing in google..
also ask your DMV how you can pay sales tax on the transaction as their refusing to title a bill of sale vehicle prevents them from collecting sales tax... I bet they will figure out a way to get your money...
One correction to what Joe says...with the VT process you get a
registration in your name, not a title in someone else name. Having it in my name already seemed to make all the difference to MD.
And yes, this process can be abused and lead to all sorts of unsavory activities. Unfortunately as long as states play games like MI it seems to be the only practical way to recover titles for old bikes. VT also limits it to older vehicles which kinda minimizes the damage.
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