haha thanks guys. well i went to the dmv. i told them i have no paperwork on the car. even though i do have some old papers. i figured since the plates said 1988 as the last year registered, it would be out of the system and i could just start over. but nooooo. they told me the car was coming up registered in someone elses name. but they couldnt tell me who. so they said i would have to get a vehicle bond for the value of the car and they would have to try to contact the registered owner. frustrated i left and went to my insurance company. they said i had to go to a specialty insurance company for them to set the value of the car. so at this point i was pretty pissed off. luckily in some of the paperwork i got with the car. there was a name and phone number. so i called it. i got a hold of the guy who got the temporary registration on it in 2007. he told me the story about how he couldnt store the car so he told the guy that was storing it to just sell it and keep the money for storage. and he never heard anything else. well long story short. he lives about 40 minutes away. im going to meet him next week and he said he will fill out the sellers information. this will get me around having to jump through all the other hoops. thank god. i just want to get this dmv stuff over with. some people i talked to also told me to try and go to a different city, because the dmv i went to is known to be a pain in the ***, so i may try that when i get the paperwork filled out. well that was my day. not the most fun, but i did get the wagon insured while i was at the insurance company. now i just need to actually own it hehe.