In Illinois, we have quaint institutions called "currency exchanges" which
are private enterprises where you can cash checks, pay utility bills, and
also register vehicles. These guys process titles en masse and are very
tolerant of "mistakes" and "corrections". I've titled old Alfas by
explaining that the previous owner had entered the "engine number" and I was
correcting it to the "chassis number" (this did at least require having a
valid title for _something_). I've also been able to title a car where the
prior owner had died and his wife signed the title with a signature that
looked nothing like his -- no problem! I'll probably go the Atlanta route
for my Topolino which has no paper at all, though it's tempting to try just
writing up a bill of sale and trotting over to the exchange!
Jack
-----Original Message-----
From: Carter Hendricks <carterh@crl.com>
To: Walt Boeninger <Walt@chekov.mayfield.hp.com>
Cc: vintage-race@autox.team.net <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: Alabama titles
>At 09:31 AM 3/12/98 PST, Walt Boeninger wrote:
>>[from JSGREBE]
>>
>The details:
>>
>>Broadway Title
>>3501 4th Ave
>>Birmingham AL 35222
>>1-800-464-3222
>>
>>They advertise every week in Old Cars Weekly. Cost is $150, the only
>>requirement is you must sign an affadavit swearing you own the vehicle
>>in question and did not steal it..;-) The cutoff is something like
>>1982 and older..
>
>I used them to clean up the messy title on my little Lancia Appia. Old OK
>title, second previous owner, signed over on the wrong line at a date
>oh 4? 6? years previous, lein released by the divorced wife then re-filled
>by the same gooney previous owner, but presto, ten days and the mess was
>gone. I understand that the local [not California!] DMV allows one odd
>detail per transaction... The whole thing went smooth just like Broadway
>said it would.
>
> --Carter
>
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