Advice on ‘74 Duster

diymirage said

its called title jumping and best i know its illegal in the US (of course commiefornia is a backward place anyway, so it could be perfectly legal there, of they could have a 5 year sentence on it, who knows)
my point is, be cautious, if he is willing to do illegal things to the title to sell this car, i would trust his word

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I appreciate your concern thank you
As far as I know it’s not technically illegal in California. I’ve bought a car from another person who still had the title in the previous owners name from Arizona and he gave me a bill of sale and the California dmv was ok with it. They just did what they called a double transfer and only made me pay my portion of the fees as the car was registered in Arizona still.
Car flippers do this so they don’t have to pay the registration and transfer fees because once they pay it they don’t get any credit back in California if they sell the car right away. In Nevada, you get a credit for the balance of your registration towards your next vehicle when you sell a car or trade one in.
BUT, he now says he has the clean California title in his name so we should be good.

He didn’t know allot about this car, he learned everything he knows now about it from me, via help from FABO members and the internet. He really didn’t know what he had, he thought he had a real H code 340 the way he advertised the car but the 360 underhood badging was a dead give away something didn’t jive,along with the fender tag and vin number. He was shocked it was originally a 6 cyl car.