E34lover
Active Member
When I bought my car, sometime in August, the guy who owned the car signed on the wrong spot of the title. No body noticed this until my aunt tried to get my car registered at the DMV a few weeks later. They told her that we would have to get in touch with the original owner, have him sign this other piece of paper that basically said he made a mistake when transferring the title, and attach the original title with it in order to register it. My aunt and I tried to call the original owner, but all of his numbers were disconnected. This alarmed me because my thought was the car was stolen, but a quick check with the DMV verified that it wasn't. My aunt then told me to not worry about it and she would figure it all out.
(fast forward about 2 1/2 months) Last week I received a letter from the DMV saying I have failed to register my car with in 60 days of purchasing it so it is now a non-operational vehicle and I can't park it or drive it on any California highway or it would be impounded ("highways" in California is classified as any street). I brought the letter to my aunt and asked her about it. She told me that she had lost the original title and now we were in even more trouble because when the original owner bought the car from GM, he had financed it then payed it off, and there was a stamp on the original title saying the lien was payed off. Well because we don't have the original title anymore the DMV thinks there is still a lien on the car. (It still gets worse)
I did a little research and I found out that if I can get in touch with the original owner then he could get a new title and everything would be ok. Well I looked up the original owners name in google just to see what comes up and it turns out that the original owner, Mr. Ed Kuckelkorn, basically scammed people out of 6 million dollars and has now fled to China. Yea only in California...... Anyways I have no idea what to do. I have the bill of sale so I can prove we bought the car, but I have no idea how I am going to get this car registered. If any of you can help I thank you very much!
(fast forward about 2 1/2 months) Last week I received a letter from the DMV saying I have failed to register my car with in 60 days of purchasing it so it is now a non-operational vehicle and I can't park it or drive it on any California highway or it would be impounded ("highways" in California is classified as any street). I brought the letter to my aunt and asked her about it. She told me that she had lost the original title and now we were in even more trouble because when the original owner bought the car from GM, he had financed it then payed it off, and there was a stamp on the original title saying the lien was payed off. Well because we don't have the original title anymore the DMV thinks there is still a lien on the car. (It still gets worse)
I did a little research and I found out that if I can get in touch with the original owner then he could get a new title and everything would be ok. Well I looked up the original owners name in google just to see what comes up and it turns out that the original owner, Mr. Ed Kuckelkorn, basically scammed people out of 6 million dollars and has now fled to China. Yea only in California...... Anyways I have no idea what to do. I have the bill of sale so I can prove we bought the car, but I have no idea how I am going to get this car registered. If any of you can help I thank you very much!