Re: 37 115c with data plate of model 1088

Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2022/2/8 15:40:39
What state is the car in? What state is it titled in (if you know)?

In some states like PA it is very difficult to title an untitled or defectively titled car. As a fix, people will buy a junker car of a similar model for cheap that has a clean title, and put the junker's plate on their good car, and register it with that title, knowing that no government/police/insurance official will be able to tell the difference. It's extremely common in some states and I think this is what you have.

Look carefully for damage to the plate around the rivets, bends in the plate that were flattened back out, and rivets of non-original type (like blind rivets).

In my opinion, normally it's "safe" to buy an OLD car like this. If you see something similar on a car made in the past 25 years, run away. But for old cars, many of which have lost titles or even were not required to be titled when purchased (NY state only required them starting 1971, for example), it's pretty common for states where you can't get bonded titles (1/3 of them).

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