[Bill OH]

There should be an order from the Probate Court that administered your Grandfather’s Estate transferring the Model A to your mother and request the Clerk of the Probate Court to issue to your mother a certified copy of the order transferring the Model A to your Mother. Have your Mother take that order to the Clerk of Courts Title Office and she can make application for a title in her name. With the title go to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and obtain either regular registration if the A is going to be daily driver or go to the BMV at Columbus for Historical Plates and return Grandpa’s Historical plates - they are invalid. If you operate the A on the highway titled in either Mom’s name or yours with Grandpa’s plates then you will be charged with fictitious plates - fine and potential jail sentence. Once Mom has the title in her name she can transfer the title to you and then you obtain plates for the A and Insurance. Or if a title was issued in Mom’s name and she lost it, take the Certified Copy of the Probate Court Order to the Clerk of Courts Title Office and have the Deputy Clerk issue a Duplicate Title to Mom and proceed with obtaining plates and insurance with the duplicate title. The key is obtaining the Certified Copy of the Probate Court order transferring the A from Grandpa to Mom You do not need to reopen Grandpa’s estate. Either the title was never issued by the Clerk of Court’s Title Office (the attorney that handled the estate should have accomplished that task) or the title was issued and lost, in which event a duplicate title can be issued from the Clerk of Courts Title Office. All of this is easy to do - Probate Court, Title Offfice and BMV. Hope this helps.