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Old 11-24-2019, 08:17 AM
 
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a family friend once got a few thousand dollars in fines because many years earlier he sold the car ... the person buying it stripped it , never registered it and left the shell for dead .

the guy who sold it had no proof any longer the car was ever sold and when the carcass was found they identified the vin and came after him since he was the last registered owner .
Not the same thing, but my car was stolen in 1980 and my insurance company paid me for the claim. Five years later I got a call from the police that they arrested a guy driving my stolen car. I told the police that the insurance company settled with me and thus they owned the car. I don’t know any more details but somebody was driving my stolen car for five years in the NYC area. I assume they must have registered it and gotten plates, stickers, etc. but the cops knew it had been my car and called me.
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Old 11-24-2019, 08:52 AM
 
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Opinion: Junk yard............remove and surrender plates. Done.

When you surrender your plates to the DMV they'll give you a receipt for the turned-in plates. Keep that receipt in a safe place forever. It's highly unlikely but an unscrupulous DMV employee can sell your plates to a criminal who will use them to do God know what with.
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Old 11-24-2019, 09:04 AM
 
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When you surrender your plates to the DMV they'll give you a receipt for the turned-in plates. Keep that receipt in a safe place forever. It's highly unlikely but an unscrupulous DMV employee can sell your plates to a criminal who will use them to do God know what with.
plates are only part of the story . major components have traceable vin numbers
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Old 11-25-2019, 05:39 AM
 
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When you surrender your plates to the DMV they'll give you a receipt for the turned-in plates. Keep that receipt in a safe place forever. It's highly unlikely but an unscrupulous DMV employee can sell your plates to a criminal who will use them to do God know what with.
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plates are only part of the story . major components have traceable vin numbers
As far as I understand when one returns the plates to the DMV, one is no longer responsible for any tickets or accidents that caused by someone else driving the car (especially in the case where one has sold the car whether or not the new owner registered it in their name or not).
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