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Topic: Rescue a car from junkyard?
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MustangNate
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How would I go about getting a title for a car that has been "rescued" from the junkyard?
There's a local junkyard that has a complete nice 85 fox with a v6 that I'd like to save and swap in a v6 from a 94 - 99 Mustang.
I'm assumming all I'd have to do is get the car street legal, take it to pass smog, and....?
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1989 Mustang LX Vert, 5.0 Auto
Posts: 1032 | From: Chico | Registered: May 2004
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fr5.0
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i dont think you can because it has a junk title buy a wrecked one and do a vin swap
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MAGA
TRUMP TRAIN!!!!
Posts: 2913 | From: sacramento | Registered: Sep 2008
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Eddie510-
CAFords OG
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i baught a car from the junk yard. dmv will make you smog it and get a (brake&light inspection) from a smog place. this is my red 88lx that was a conversion. well since i have plug i passed my inspection for 70$ and smog for 250 without taking the car ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
[ October 27, 2008, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: Eddie510- ]
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wilit
Mustang Messiah
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Depends on who you talk to at the DMV. I accidentally went to the DMV with the wrong title (title I had was for a junked car) and they said I couldn't do squat with it because it was "in the system as a junk title." I believe what you can do is have everything inspected and apply for a new VIN. It's a huge hassle though.
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"If a man hasn't found something worth dying for, he isn't fit to live." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Posts: 4793 | From: 37.78514° North 122.40100° West | Registered: Oct 2003
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MustangNate
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I just did what I should have done before posting, I looked on the DMV website. I found the section "How to Reregister a Slavaged Vehicle".
I have to:
1) Apply using "Application for Title or Registration"
2) Application for Salvage Certificate, Statement of Facts (to describe vehicle) and Bill of Sale.
3) Vehicle Inspection with California DMV or CHP.
4) Brake and Light Inspection
5) Weight Certificate if a truck
6) SMOG certificate
7) Registration / Service Fees.
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1989 Mustang LX Vert, 5.0 Auto
Posts: 1032 | From: Chico | Registered: May 2004
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I think a salvage vehicle is different from a junk vehicle, but I'm not sure.
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89 Convertable GT
BBK Headers, cai
Posts: 1044 | From: San Bruno | Registered: Jul 2004
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JohnB
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A salvaged vehicle is COMPLETELY different than a junk vehicle. Once a vehicle is labeled "junk" in DMV's computer, there is no going back.
If the car has been out of DMV's computer 7+ yrs, you might get lucky and it's not going to show up. From experience, I saved a car from a junkyard (69 Dart Swinger 340/4spd) and it was a pain, and that was just with the title being branded salvaged, which is automatically done if a dismantler sells you the car.
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1993 Cobra
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Posts: 6523 | From: Orlando FL/Redding CA | Registered: Mar 2002
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