I do believe that Alabama is the state where cars are often "transferred"
in order to legitimize their not having a title. The dealer in Long Island
City (part of Queens, actually - Archie Bunker's neighborhood) may have
sold the car to the dealer in Alabama and then repurchased it, without it
ever having left the lot. Thus he now has a car he can sell without a
title, an ex-Alabama car.
I'd get suspicious, but you say the car is in rough shape so it's lack of
title is more likely due to loss or misplacement (aren't they the same
thing?) than an attempt to launder a stolen car. Good luck.
I think there may be terminology differences with what is a registration in
Oz vs. a registration in New York. A car doesn't necessarily have to be
running to be registered, particularly if it's too old to require an
emissions test.
Phil Vanner
Mk1 Midget
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Subject: Re: Title and Bill of Sale
Neil, Alabama was for many years a non-title state. Registration may be
the
only document that you get from Alabama. Can someone else help? John
Neil Cotty wrote:
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