In Cow Hampshire it matters not. Titles are not required for registration of vehicles over 15 years of age.
http://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/d...ply/exempt.htm
A title can be issued at request of the Owner. The number does not even need to be documented.
Per their web site:
http://www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/d...pply/index.htm
Quote:
The title is one of the key documents for maintaining the chain of ownership since it will identify the previous owner and title, specifically by including the previous title number and state of issuance on the title. It will:- Provide motor vehicle departments with data about previous owners, and therefore, aid in the searching of registration and titling files to locate previous records.
- Provide a readily identifiable ownership chain, which would describe the history of the vehicle.
- Make it more difficult for fraudulent ownership of a vehicle to be obtained.
|
The powers that be here are not sufficiently conversant on antique automobiles to look or even know if it is a bona-fide number to begin with. For Cow Hampshire there is no duplication search done that I am aware.
A bill of sale would help establish above, but is not necessary.
My singular experience involved doing a first time title to a 1930ish truck chassis. This was to be sold to a buyer located in Texas, where Titling is taken more seriously. And providing a title became a detail aspect of the sale.
The chassis had numbers that match (original engine and 26K original miles.) The bill of sale did not mention a VIN.
I chose not to mention the frame number to the cop woman who came to the house to do the verification. But she did look that engine number over pretty closely using the drop light at various angles and checking the numbering against what was on the form (which I myself had filled in by hand after reading the number off the block.)
And about 30 days later a title certificate arrived in the mail - just in time to turn it over to the new owner as he picked up the frame on a trailer.
So stupid - but perhaps titling does inhibit car theft. Just not so much in Cow Hampshire.
Hope your experience is similarly easy.
Joe K