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Has anyone done it?
I have a chance to buy a 93 gmc c3500, 2wd, 454, 5 speed for a song. It has been setting in the weeds for about 5+ years. It would be for parts only, keep what I want, sell what I can on craigslist, then scrap the rest.
The story goes as this. I was helping a friend/co-worker haul off some trash to his fathers place to be burnt in a burn pile he has. I saw the truck in the weeds and inquired about it. His father says his nephew was renting some property to some guy. The guy up and leaves, and leaves the truck. They tried and tried to contact him for a long time with no luck. After so long, his nephew and him hauled it to his place and it has been setting there ever since.
For what I can get it for, I can make out pretty nice on the part out. The only issue I see is the no title. I do not want to hand over any cash untill I can get either get the title or some legal way to scrap it, cause its my understanding that scrap yards will not take a vehicle unless you have the title for it.
It looks like I have very few options. It looks like I could apply for a abandond vehicle title. But from reading about that online, it looks like it is a stupid and crazy number of long drawn out hoops you have to jump through to do it.
It looks like I cant apply for a salvage title unless I own it. Correct me if I am wrong?
I thought about towing/storage lein or something of those sorts. But it looks like you have to be a licenced tow company to do that.
I guess the first thing to do would be to try and find out what info I can on the truck. I wrote down the vin. Where could I go to pull the record on it? Police, dmv? Just want to make sure the guy hasnt tried to report it stolen after these years.
Is there anything legaly he can do to get or help get the title since it has been in storage on his property for so many years?
I heard that you can cut up a vehicle into peices and can then haul it off with no title. That would take a long time and be a lot of work.
Any other suggestions?

In AZ if you have a partial vehicle[after you take some parts off] you can cut the vehicle into four pieces an scrap it.

The last one I did, we cut the frame in front of the bed and made a trailer out of it.

Here we can haul it in complete without a title, the scrap yard prefers one for "just in case" but they will take it. I don't think I have ever taken a title with anything I have scrapped.

Remove the dash and the door plate, and bring in ANY GM truck title. Doesn't need to match...


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jsinajeep wrote:In AZ if you have a partial vehicle[after you take some parts off] you can cut the vehicle into four pieces an scrap it.

That's the same as it is up here in Washington State- but not every scrapper will take them, you have to call around to make sure it's a recycler that will take vehicles without titles.

In nc we didn't need the title for the maxima I pulled my motor from.

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In AZ if you have a partial vehicle[after you take some parts off] you can cut the vehicle into four pieces an scrap it.

X3 Thats how we do it here. strip what you can sell, cut in a couple chunks, and haul it off.

Heck, just get it and get the parts you want and then drag it on to the side of the road and let the State have it

Yea, the title thing in NC is kind of screwed up. I rented a house to a guy that I had ajoining property next to. on the ajoining property I had a 86 Montie Carlo SS and a 77 Dodge W150 Power Wagon parked. The sneaky SOB sold both of them to a scrapper and left the state with no titles. Neither vehicle was scrap. Both of them run quite well. The Montie only had a dent in the rear quarterpanel that I could straighten out in about 10 minutes. The Dodge was a factory big block 440 with stepside bed. The only thing wrong with it was the front drive shaft needed joints. I told the cops around here that they better get him before I do. All I can say is if I get him, he's gonna have a VERY bad day. Like Stallone said in one of his movies "Your gonna regret this the rest of your life....... Both seconds of it.

Depends on the scrapyard here in MO as to if you need a title or not. Most backwoods places don't worry that much. Also, bills of sale sometimes will work instead.

I have scrapped a couple vehicles in Ca and both times I have had someone haul it away (that i found on craigslist.) I merely signed a bill of sale and they took it off of my hands.

I have scrapped about 4-5 trucks this year without titles. I just them up and haul them into the recycler. They told me as long as it does not look like a vehicle anymore,then it is either tin for the sheetmetal or #1 for the rest. So I cut the cab in quarters and the frame in 3 pieces,load in the bed and haul away on the car trailer.

In Idaho, about the easiest thing you can do without a title is scrap it. When I part something out that's how I get rid of the hulk. I call the wrecker, it goes away, the driver gets the scrap value of whats left (and any remaining parts) and I get one less dead car in the yard.

I'm gonna try and call some scrap yards this week and see how it goes.
Also, I want to run the vin and make sure they guy never reported it stolen or anything. What would be the best way to do this? DMV or police?

DMV.....a LIEN sale can always be done for storage fees...in Cali I think it's 10-15 a day...add that up for 5+ years!=18000+ dollars.....if the guy wants his truck back, he has to pay it...if not it's YOURS. Usually takes 30 days for all paperwork to be done. So if you can wait that long, then do it...if not, cut it up and scrap it...YOU make the money.

Found a couple different sites online you can do a free vin check. Ran the vin on two sites and it came back clean on both.
Also called a local scrap yard and told them I had a old junk truck I need to haul off and wondered if I would need the title to bring it to them. She asked what year and when I told her she said no, just bring it on in.
Get paid next week so hopefully should get it next weekend. I have a friend that is gonna let me store it at his place to part it out, since I cant put it at my place.

This is one website where you can sell your scrap car https://scrapcartorontoshop.ca and get paid.

Cut it up into smaller pieces and bring it to a scrap yard little by little. Generally as long as you're not disposing of a whole car all at once, there is no need for a title, it's just scrap metal to them.

In Florida they need a title. Ive scrapped several vehicles at the same time with one title but I have also had them send me away because I had too much material [less than half] without a title. Obviously, its different in every state