Thread: Anyone ever have a bad experience selling a car

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kinda had a somewhat bad experience. sold my '65 Rambler to a local kid. his father and him were going to 'fix it up'. it needed new trunions to really be safely roadworthy.. I would have put them in and transplanted a 302/AOD into it if I had the time but didn't so I sold it.. dad asks where to get trunions, and I told him where they were available.. couple weeks later he asked how to put them in, which I said they were a basic suspension component and any reputable shop could do them. then he hinted that he wanted me to do them.. didn't hear back for a few months and after that, I find out he wants ME to buy the car back. for 1/2 what I sold it for but.. still I got rid of it for a reason. I didn't have the time ( or then the want/ desire ) to fix it up... then I found out they feild hopped the car on a feild that wasn't theirs.. the car is still in MY name because they never registered it. so if anything happened/happens, it's still MY car legally.. I do have a nice legal signed bill of sale releasing all of my liability but the cops could still come knocking on my door.. there is no way I can transfer ownership on my end and there not going to register it, so they can't even sell it

Originally Posted by Matt167

kinda had a somewhat bad experience. sold my '65 Rambler to a local kid. his father and him were going to 'fix it up'. it needed new trunions to really be safely roadworthy.. I would have put them in and transplanted a 302/AOD into it if I had the time but didn't so I sold it.. dad asks where to get trunions, and I told him where they were available.. couple weeks later he asked how to put them in, which I said they were a basic suspension component and any reputable shop could do them. then he hinted that he wanted me to do them.. didn't hear back for a few months and after that, I find out he wants ME to buy the car back. for 1/2 what I sold it for but.. still I got rid of it for a reason. I didn't have the time ( or then the want/ desire ) to fix it up... then I found out they feild hopped the car on a feild that wasn't theirs.. the car is still in MY name because they never registered it. so if anything happened/happens, it's still MY car legally.. I do have a nice legal signed bill of sale releasing all of my liability but the cops could still come knocking on my door.. there is no way I can transfer ownership on my end and there not going to register it, so they can't even sell it

If you signed the back of the registration of a pre '72 car over to them and have a bill of sale receipt - in NYS, they own it!!! Also, you need this form as well: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/forms/dtf802.pdf

Originally Posted by IC2

If you signed the back of the registration of a pre '72 car over to them and have a bill of sale receipt - in NYS, they own it!!! Also, you need this form as well: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/forms/dtf802.pdf

I know.. I signed the registration, gave them a filled out and signed DTF-802 but I also went as far as print out 2 bills of sales. listing the make, model, year vin and that it was sold without warranty or liability, signed by me and the buyer.. 1 copy for them, and 1 for me

but as far as NY knows, I still own the car because they never turned the paperwork in, and they can't sell it unless they do turn it in because the registration has been signed over to them.. they had a buyer, but he didn't buy it because the reg wasn't clean. because they havn't put it in their name