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mond
wondered if you guy can help ,
im short of some paperwork for my Cj Jeep , i have no idea what happened to mine as i had it so long awaiting a resto job, .if you can help me get on with , i need Cj-5 papers pre 1979 title to register my lil jeepy . let me know what you like via return :)

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  • ruger41
    Titles aren?t something we can just make up at home and have it be official. We have to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and file for a lost title. You should be able to to do the same thing.
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  • Ricci Wright
    It the vehicle was titled to you then contact your state dmv and get a replacement. If not in your name you may never be able to get a title depending on your state.
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  • TANK78Z
    I do believe that Mond is in the UK so I can't think of what help we could offer to make it legal there.
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  • mrmike08075
    Check out the online presence of Ed China formerly of Wheeler dealer fame...

    I bet that that gang / those blokes / could point you in the right direction.

    One of the associated forums or sites probably has it addressed six ways from Sunday.

    Mike
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  • Junkballer
    I've done it many times and there's several ways to work around your problem but you offer up very little info......previous owner deceased/alive ?? your location ?? etc. etc. You say your short "some" paperwork, what paper do you have now ?
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  • remingtonoaks
    If you're short the title to your CJ, and it was registered/titled in your name. File for a lost title through the DMV

    If it wasn't in your name you'll have to try to track down the last persons that the title was in and get them to do it.

    If You Came Upon it through storage that they did not pay, you can file for a storage lien and after a certain amount of time without the owner laying claim to it and paying back storage, you can get a title through a storage lien

    If you weren't storing it for somebody, you can still put a storage lien on it if you're in possession of it. Again you have to put a storage lien on it to the state where it was last titled in

    Same way with a mechanic's lien. If the titled owner brought it in to get work done on it I never paid you, then you can put a mechanic's lien on it and after a certain amount of time depending on the state you can act on it.

    All this will have to be done in the state that it was last titled/registered in...

    I understand that you may live in a foreign country other than the United States, but if it was last titled in the United States that's all you have to do to go about it. Even if you live in another country.
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  • mond
    The CJ motor i have was a Usa import, since moving home etc i had title etc , but it has been misplaced so no Uk registration. I require a CJ5 title to register & work aUk registration , i was hoping maybe someone scrapped a CJ5 & had some spare paperwork i could title the car :)
    CJ 5 1978 , so any 1975/79 paperwork would do the magic .

    regards
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  • remingtonoaks
    mond wrote:
    The CJ motor i have was a Usa import, since moving home etc i had title etc , but it has been misplaced so no Uk registration. I require a CJ5 title to register & work aUk registration , i was hoping maybe someone scrapped a CJ5 & had some spare paperwork i could title the car :)
    CJ 5 1978 , so any 1975/79 paperwork would do the magic .

    regards

    I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in United States doing what you suggest is it illegal.
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  • allen griggs
    Hello mond! Where ya been? Good to hear from you again.

    The only person I ever heard call a shotgun a "shotty." Mond used to post all the time back in the good ole days.
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  • Junkballer

    I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in United States doing what you suggest is it illegal.
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    Yes it is but there's boat loads of all kinds of non-papered vehicles and motorized machinery being shipped out of the U.S and many countries could care less, and if they do money changes laws instantly in many places when placed in the right hands.
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  • remingtonoaks
    Junkballer wrote:

    I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in United States doing what you suggest is it illegal.

    Yes it is but there's boat loads of all kinds of non-papered vehicles and motorized machinery being shipped out of the U.S and many countries could care less, and if they do money changes laws instantly in many places when placed in the right hands.
    [/quote]

    Well that's none of my business, I'm just a two wrongs don't make a right type of person...

    When my kids were growing up I would always hear "but Dad, my friend's parents let them do it". That meant nothing to me

    He also says that he had a title at one time, I'm sure there is a way that he can get a duplicate legally.
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  • Okie743
    I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in United States doing what you suggest is it illegal.


    You probably have to contact someone in Mexico or Watts. ;)
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  • Hessian
    The paperwork isn't going to do you much good unless the serial numbers match. If you are going to create new serial numbers you might as well create them before 1960. In Britan, any vehicle built before 1960 has no inspection, so you can do pretty much anything you want to it without all the inspection hassles. Normal inspection hassles are VIN checks and making sure all the parts are OEM (equivalent).

    The easy way is to junk it on paper then have the junker write you a bill of sale, then apply for new registration. I'd create a new paper trail to cover your rear end. Cutting corners is one thing, messing with a stolen vehicle is another. You want to have plausible deniability just in case. If there ever are questions they may just impound it and it will be unlikely you will ever see it again.

    Another path would be to apply to the customs office for copies of all the paperwork. If it was imported chances are duty was paid or duty waved, in either case, the customs office has copies of the paperwork.
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  • remingtonoaks
    Okie743 wrote:
    I don't know about your neck of the woods, but in United States doing what you suggest is it illegal.


    You probably have to contact someone in Mexico or Watts. ;)

    Yep... :lol:
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