It seems I screwed up the first time, so here is another go at my reply:
> I am looking for help in acquiring a title for an MGA 1600 I'm restoring
> here in Kentucky. My Uncle owned it, abandoned it, and left it for me 15
> yrs. later. Now I have a car I'm getting ready to put an engine in and
> the title is nowhere to be found. What should I do? I'm not sure it was
> ever actually licensed (it was his restoration project back in the late
> 60s) so that might pose a problem.
I am trying to bring back hazy memories of what I had to do to get my Austin
America on the road in NY. There had been about a 7 year gap between when I
bought it and me putting it on the road. When we came to register it I think
we found that the previous owner had never signed it over to us, although
we did in fact have a copy of the registration in her name. I think all we had
to do was prove we had made a 'reasonable effort' to contact the previous
owner, basically involving going to their old address and saying "Do you
know where X is living now?" (In fact I think we arranged a lie, as the
present occupier was this womans brother-in-law, it was just easier than
sending the form off to Texas to get her to sign it and send it back). I am
not sure if we didn't also have to use a Notary Public somewhere along the
line, perhaps as a witness to a descriptive letter. I am not sure if that was
it, but I do remember it took less effort than we thought it might have done,
and I was on the road in a couple of days. Mind you I only drove it for about
a month before I ended up coming to the UK-the only time I have had it on the
road in 15 years of ownership!
Chris *God are my parents patient, allowing me to leave an Austin America and
a non-running '57 beetle in their driveway for TEN YEARS while I lived in the
UK* Wiggins
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