Barn find

[oldwhity]

What a find!! There's a 57 Buick 2dr hdtp up the road that just sits. I think it's a "Century" or "Special" (3 porthole) also. I wish I'd kept mine. It was also a 57 but a 4dr "no post" Special.

[80stepsideguy]

FItz,
being a native rhode islander myself i heard there being very strict now on older cars that dont have any current registrations. My buddy i use to work for had a 67 firebird he bought from a friend i knew for 300.00 cause he was doing some work to it and the guy didnt have the money to pay for the repairs so my friend bought it and did all the bodywork and tried to go register it and they told him you need a bill of sale from the person that had it last registered.He didnt know who ti was and the DMV wouldn`t give the info so he had a car that had no title and a car w/o a bill of sale from the p/o . It sucks i know but i think now you file for a lost title you can start registering cars and trucks in your name with a clean slate..

thanks
pat

p.s. RI will do anything for money like any other state will as well..

[Lt.Del]

the DMV wouldn`t give the info so he had a car that had no title and a car w/o a bill of sale from the p/o

The DMV wouldn't give the info out voluntarily.  I have served so, so many subpoena duces tecums which is a court order to furnish information, be it medical records (civl lawsuits), DMV records (title searches, lien info), business records (liability cases), financial records (divorces, child cupport), or whatever.  Any citizen can file for these and it costs like $25.  The court clerk will hear what you need and issue the order and send it to the sheriff's office to serve the DMV.  There will be a follow-up court date in case the records are not sent, the judge will want to know why a court order wasn't fulfilled by the DMV. 

The court can order the DMV to give out info.  The DMV is fine with that because it is off their shoulders--they were court-ordered to do so. They're covered. 

It happens all the time with sheriff sales (levies) on vehicles.   We wont sell a car to satisfy a judgement without the plaintiff giving us registration (DMV) records and to supply any lien info.  The Joe Citizen plaintiff gets this info.  We, as sheriffs, do not do this in  preparation for a sale.  It happens all the time.

[fitz]

  Many old cars with missing titles have been shipped off to New Hampshire or Rhode Island (neighboring states to Mass.) where titles are not required on older vehicles.
 

Pat,
I heard that RI will accept the prior registration of a car from Mass but does not require the title if it's over 10 years.
It's kind of odd because most of us keep the reg. in the vehicle as opposed to the title which gets locked away for safe keeping.
I'd say 99% of the vehicle we see daily have the reg. in the glove box or console.
Kind of makes it easy on the thieves I would say.
How often does anyone check the sellers I.D. to make they own the vehicle they are selling?