How much risk and excitement are you up for?
If that car were to magically move itself from its current location to a proximity that happened to be in front of your house, and were to magically appear washed and cared for, people likely wouldn't complain.
If your house has a garage for automotive napping, so much the better.
If a person were to make a smallish sized poster, and cover it with a licence plate cover to preclude close examination, well that's just nice.
And a visit to a friendly tag & title service, or even private investigator, will do you far better than a talk to the local DMV.
This is presuming the owner will let you have it. Don't count on that. I've seem more than one flakey owner who insisted on large sums of money for a car they were letting be crushed for nothing.
yamaha
Dork
11/8/12 10:12 a.m.
mad_machine wrote:
yamaha wrote:
Its a 74+.......the owner probably dumped it after he saw the back end.
while not as pretty as the round taillights.. I never found the later taillights all that offensive. With how rare nice 2002s are getting... people can't afford to be too picky anymore
I can't complain either......most you see "thrown away" are square light cars.
I drove a brown/tan '74 at Mecum two years ago......had Alpina E36 M3 on it everywhere. No rust, sold for $7k bones. I wish I'd been able to buy it.......as it was a tii fuelie car.
stan_d wrote:
I found an abandoned car looked in the glove box and found signed title and keys.
That just happened to a guy I work with a few days ago! There was a crown vic that had been sitting on the street a few houses down from him. Once it got tagged by the cops he checked the glove box to try to find the owners contact info, since he was interested in it. There he found the keys and title. It turned over, but no start. He put some gas in it and drove it home.
I'm an opportunist, but isn't that grand theft auto?
It belongs to who has the title
In reply to stan_d:
IF the title is indeed signed over in the car with keys in it.......they're basically giving it to someone instead of scrapping it.
Woody wrote:
I'm an opportunist, but isn't that grand theft auto?
I would prefer to talk to the owner before taking a car like that, but I would think the situation would be considered along the lines of "an open door is an invitation." That's not a legal reference, btw. ;-)
The registration on the car in the photo is not current. That's all I can legally say.
dculberson wrote:
Woody wrote:
I'm an opportunist, but isn't that grand theft auto?
I would prefer to talk to the owner before taking a car like that, but I would think the situation would be considered along the lines of "an open door is an invitation." That's not a legal reference, btw. ;-)
Isn't that what all the guys caught on the Bait Car shows say? lol
Woody wrote:
I'm an opportunist, but isn't that grand theft auto?
Hence the "How much risk and excitement are you up for? "
It may go just fine, or it may not.
When I was a delivery driver I once saw an old Beetle on the side of the highway in Kentucky with a police tag on it. I drove past it again two hours later on my way back to town and it was jacked up in the back with no engine!
My brother saw a nice Honda Accord on the side of the road for a few days. Then it had a tow warning tag on it so he took it home and fixed the broken axle then found the owners and called them. They said they were scared of the car and didn't want it any more but the buy here pay here lot had the title. So he called the lot who offered him the title for $50. He gladly paid it. They gave him the title. He re-sold the car for a decent - but not as much as you would think - profit.
That's more adventurous than I would be in a similar situation.
Po Po are getting smarter and trolling with vintage crunchy iron. Niche fishing I tell ya. See you on a episode soon.....
Just tell them a friend gave you the keys and told you to move it. They will understand.
Nothing new about their use of bait. Highly doubt this one is bait. A Honda Accord, with a GPS stuck to the windshield on the other hand....
They've been baiting the park near where I work. skate boards, bicycles, etc. One of two vans will always be nearby.
The cops down here busted a father/son pair who were picking up a dead car on the side of I-95 using a homemade dolly, there had been a lot of cases where cars broke down and then turned up missing very quickly. When they searched the truck, they found something like 130 receipts dated over a two year period from a couple of scrap dealers that averaged about $400.
Just to be clear, my brother wouldn't have sold the car without speaking to the prior owners and getting title from them. His plan, if they wanted the car back, was to just get paid for the parts. He just didn't want to see a nice looking car go to the scrap yard.
Someone stole my GTI while I was deployed. berkeley thieves.
DanyloS
New Reader
11/10/12 7:52 a.m.
No particular desire to tempt bringing on a potential Grand Theft Auto charge... Otherwise it would have already "disappeared" into a garage or mechanic's lot somewhere in the suburbs.
In any case I was able to locate (and clearly read) the VIN on top of the steering column pad and am slowly working towards what ever the back story may be.
Thanks to everyone for all your help and ideas!
keep us informed.. if you get the car, this will make an interesting story
Datsun1500 wrote:
dculberson wrote:
Just to be clear, my brother wouldn't have sold the car without speaking to the prior owners and getting title from them. His plan, if they wanted the car back, was to just get paid for the parts. He just didn't want to see a nice looking car go to the scrap yard.
And if they said they were not paying for the repairs, what was his plan? Basically he stole the car and fixed it for them, they were just too dumb to realize it
Nope, my brother is a Very Good Guy. He probably would have just given it back to them.
Either he was going to take it or the police were. They are less kind with your vehicle.
