Re: [VAL] '58 Overlander Manual

[Dick Harrold <harrold@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve & Fred -

You might enjoy this.  When I bought my Airstream, it had a title, but 
it was for a previous owner, not the guy I bought it from.  He never 
titled it in our state.  I went to the DMV branch and asked what I'd 
need to get a title and license plate.  They told me to bring in any 
paperwork I had, have a police check of the VIN, and that would be it.  
That sounded too easy.

When I finally actually picked up the trailer and paid for it, I got 
the many years old title and had a bill of sale made up, signed and 
notarized - just in case.

I got the police inspection form and had it filled out.  (By the way, 
the officer's parents had owned an Airstream, and he informed me I had 
the Rolls Royce of campers!)  I took all this stuff back to the DMV 
branch.  The woman told me that I'd have to get the previous owner to 
get a new title in our state and in his name and then transfer that 
title to my name!  I told her what I had been told previously by a DMV 
employee.  She got her supervisor, but the story remained that I'd have 
to go through the above procedure.

However, and get this, during the conversation, she said that if I 
hadn't had a previous out-of-state title, that the trailer was so old, 
I could simply use the bill of sale and get a new title in my name!

I thanked her, walked out the door, drove 20 miles to another DMV 
branch, handed them the bill of sale and walked out minutes later with 
a new title and a license plate!

See you down by the barn . . . .

Dick Harrold
Noblesville, IN USA