Disaster Thread: Selling a Car

[Zkribbler]

Anyone who's been reading the Zkribbler's House thread knows I'm retiring and am moving to the Philippines. I fly out Monday night. It's now late Thursday night.

Anyone who knows Murphy's Law, knows that disaster had to strike. It's inevitable. Tonight, I got a one-two punch.

Punch One: A friend of mine was going to buy my car as a gift for his daughter, who's going away to college. Today, he took her out for a test drive. She didn't like it. It's a little Miata, and it's far too small to make her feel safe. So, no sale.

Punch Two: I start organizing myself to sell it to a dealer. I go down the checklist. First thing: Title. Where the heck is the title? It's not where it's supposed to be. The only other place I can think of is that it's in the glove box of my car, over at my friends. --But it's been drummed into me since I was a kid, you don't keep the title to the car in the glove box so it's probably not there either.

So let's say, it's not in the glove box....that I've lost it. This means I'll have to get a duplicate from the overworked-understaffed DMV. How many weeks will this take?

Do any Polytubbies have any great suggestions?

[Riesstiu IV]

Set it on fire and collect the insurance money.

[Dinner]

Put an ad in the auto trader with the phone number to a sister, a brother, a cousin, or some other family member in the ad and make them sell if for you. Large family for the win!

[Wiglaf]

Suicide it up

[SlowwHand]

Get some Cubans to show you how to make it float and sail it to the Phillipines.

[Lancer]

Yikes, you'll need that title whatever you do. Its a cool car used in the rum running trade, a history that should add value!
I wish you had me fly down there, I could drive it to Oregon and put a sign on it.

[Japher]

DMV has an online application that has to be mailed in, or you can go down there to day. Just make sure they are one that is open.

http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/replacing-a-lost-title.php

You will need to find someone to watch over the car for you until it comes. Then, just donate to charity and get the blue book write off, assuming you didn't make too much this year.

[Zkribbler]

DMV has an online application that has to be mailed in, or you can go down there to day. Just make sure they are one that is open.

http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/replacing-a-lost-title.php

You will need to find someone to watch over the car for you until it comes. Then, just donate to charity and get the blue book write off, assuming you didn't make too much this year.

Thanks, Japher. That's a handy website. Unfortunately, I can't get the duplicate today--all I can do is apply for it.

If I can't find the Certificate of Title, I'll stash the car somewhere.
When I get to the Phils, I can download the application form. And start the process.

[I doesn't do me any financial good to donate it. I don't itemize but instead take the standard deduction.]

[Krill]

Roll it off a bridge.

[chequita guevara]

You could give it to a charity and take it as a tax deduction.

[Zkribbler]

If I itemized, Ugarte. If I itemized.

[Wezil]

I'll bid $100.

[Japher]

Could the car count as a carry on?

[Wezil]

$100 was too low for a starting bid?

What's the car worth Zkribbler? Help us out here.

[Zkribbler]

Just shy of $7,000. I paid $21,000 for it in 2001.