Help! Car registration troubles! Need to get out of a ticket!!?

My friend bought a truck for me back in 2006 as a gift. We went together and got it registered and titled in her name so she could sign it over to me as a gift when the new title came in. Unfortunately before that could happen, we had a falling out and the title never got signed over to me and is still registered in her name. Well...I drove the truck on tags that had been expired since November of 2007 until November of 2008 and actually got pulled over and cited for the tags a year after they had expired. Here is my current dilemma. In order to get out of the ticket, I need to sell the car, salvage it (because its not running at the moment), or get the tags renewed. Without a title, I can't do any of that. Any advice or similar situations?

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Park it on your driveway and call a private wrecker company. They will haul it off and impound the vehicle- They will also take care of all registered owner notifications etc. Since you don't have a title, they will tow it away for being "abandoned" on private property. That is your only option...
You might as well pay the ticket.. There is no way you can sell someone else's vehicle...

SmartA$$

Technically speaking, you don't own the truck. So you can't buy tags or do anything else in a legal sense with it. All you are doing is borrowing it on a long term basis.

As far as getting out of the ticket: give up. You did drive without tags, so what makes you think its okay to not pay the fine for driving without tags?

Vipassana

You're not getting out of the ticket.

The point is, the tags were expired, and you were driving it.

Selling the vehicle, or getting renewed, does NOT change the fact that you were committing a violation when pulled over.

It's like saying you were drunk when pulled over, but you're sober now, so can you get out of the ticket?

wolfie

do you have possession of the title, if yes just call a junk yard write junk on the title give or sell them the car. if you don't call the friend explain you need the title have him/her write junk on it. you could also call your DMV and ask how to handle

BRUCE C

To register it all you need is the old registration and proof of insurance.

Bill M

If the truck was never signed out of your ex-girlfriend's name, it's still hers. If she wanted to she could report it stolen on top of all your other problems. Since she hasn't done that in over two years, she shouldn't mind signing the title over to you.

Melly

i HAVE AN ISSUE MY BOYFRIEND BOUGHT A TRUCK WHEN HE WAS WITH HIS LAST GIRLFRIEND AND THEY BOTH SIGNED IT WELL SOMEHOW HIS NAME WAS TAKEN OFF AND HER NAME ENDED UP IN THE FIRST AND SECOND SIGNATURE. WE ARE TRYING TO GET IT SIGNED OVER INTO MY NAME UNTILL HE CAN COME HOME AND TAKE IT BACK IN HIS NAME. PLUS I NEED TO GET IT REGISTERED IN CASE I NEED TO MOVE IT ANYONE KNOW HOW I CAN DO THIS????

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