[Spridgets] Need help in dealing with a missing title

[bjshov8 at tx.rr.com]

The person who owns the hangar and who would be collecting the storage fees is
the person that has legal claim to the car.  He would have to file a lien on
it with the department of motor vehicles in your state.  He might have to come
up with paperwork to support the storage fees.  Every state probably does this
a little differently.




> Folks I need some advice on how to deal with this one on a '59 BE I learned
> about and have been working with the person who has the car in his
possession.
> Car has been in storage in an airplane hangar for some time. It has unpaid
> storage fees. Car was verbally given to my contact's son in exchange for
> storage
> fees and abandoned. The legal owner of this car who holds the title,
> car BTW has
> not been titled since '78, refuses to return calls. I can pick up
> this car for a
> fairly modest cost. I have not looked at this car but it will
> likely need a
> rotiserie restoration but it is unmolested and all of the parts
> and pieces are
> there. Here is the note I received this AM.
>
> Jim,
>
> My son was
> here this past weekend and we discussed what to do with the Bug Eye.
> As far
> as we are concerned the car is yours. As you recall the person who was
> looking after the car verbally gave the car to xxxxxmy son. However, we
have
> no
> title and no matter how many times webve talked to xxxxx (the person
> looking
> after the car) he has not come up with a title from the owner, a
> distant
> relative of his wife. So if you want the car it is yours as far as we
> are
> concerned and you will have to deal with xxxxxx for title purposes. I
> know this
> is not a clean deal like we wanted but Rick will be leaving for
> Japan the end of
> July and needs hangar space to store his belongings. Let me
> know if you are
> still interested and when you would like to come to xxxxxx.
> I need some advice from the group on how to deal with this one. I know
there
> are
> ways.... but how best to deal with this so I don't have an issue later
> on.
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