[iluv69s]

Very interesting thread... I want to commend all for thier politeness. (sometimes not the norm here)....

I will add to NJSteve's anecdote by saying that way back when I first started dealing with the old cars, I became friends with the employees at the local auto tag agency. To get a duplicate title to an abandoned car or a car w/ a lost title was no big deal. Then to get it changed over in your name was the same...Everything was very simple... The old titles back then even had the space to write your name as buyer and a few other names also...and then just flip the car to another person without ever going thru the state...I still have a few titles like that...

I guess the loss of tax revenue curtailed that... I am from Pa...

I'm not saying the car in this thread was ever actually 'abandoned'...just saying that it would have been easy for someone else to title the car back in the day.