$225 seems a bit exorbitant.

Out here in California, if you're a private party, all you need to do is
fill out a lost title form and pay the transfer fees.

If you're a business, you have to lien sale the vehicle.  The lien sale
agency I uses charges me $55 to handle all the lien sale paperwork, after
which I have to pay the transfer fees at the DMV.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Kenneth Wilford
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:27 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Report of International Title Service

Folks have come across the dilemma from time to time.  They find a nice
Vanagon that they want to restore in a junkyard with no title and they
wonder "Can this car be legal again?"  I recently came into posession of a
nice '87 Syncro Van that had been abandoned at a mechanic's shop after the
owner moved and then thought the cost of the shop repairs were too high.
I looked around on the internet and found a company that could said they
could get you a new title for your car with no title.
http://www.its-titles.com
I gave them a call and within a couple of days I had the paperwork I needed
to fill out to have the new title prepared.  I mailed the paperwork back to
ITS and now a week later, I have my paperwork from them.  It is not a title
but a registration slip from Rhode Island with a Bill of Sale.

Basically it works like this:
You sell the van to ITS for $1
They get the van registered in Rhode Island and then sell it back to you.
You get this RI registration and a letter from RI DMV saying that a bill of
sale is all that is required for this vehicle in RI.  Now I am going to take
this stuff to the NJ DMV and see what happens.

All in all I am happy with what has happened so far.  The paperwork was
simple and easy to fill out.  The cost was not too bad ($225) and the time
frame of one week was a lot quicker than I had expected.  I'll post to the
list when I get the final OK from NJ DMV.

Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
http://www.vanagain.com
Phone: (856)-327-4936
Fax: (856)-327-2242