a $13k '63 split window

[PLATINUM6BBL]

Lost to a DUI!
http://www.asset-auctions.com/cgi-bi...07D059/showall

[markjohnson]

Well, I'm against drunk driving as much as the next guy but I'm even MORE AGAINST the right of government to seize your vehicle and sell it. That's crossing a line, right there. Could you imagine spending 5 years of your life restoring a car, driving it to a buddy's house on a Saturady afternoon and drinking a can of beer, maybe two, chirping the tires while leaving his subdivision, get pulled over and have your car confiscated? I'm having a hard time trying to rationalize this as right.

[Jim Ferron]

So Mark...I'm guessing you don't know anyone who was killed by a habitual drunk driver...

[markjohnson]

You know what, don't even go there. I don't know who you think you are but you don't know me. Back off. If somebody is a habitual drunk driver, than you take their license away. Driving is a privilege, not a right. You remove that privilege or at worst put them in jail where they can do no harm. It is wrong though, for the goverment to seize your vehicle. That's the beginning of the wrong kind of goverment. By the way, I don't drink AT ALL, so don't think I'm defending myself or anyone else for that matter, only the loss of freedoms and personal property.

[x Baldwin Motion]

In NY I believe you get your car taken if it is a "felony DWI" which may mean 2nd offense within a certain time frame.

note to self.. don't drink and drive. period.
edit;
Mark, here in NY they don't just seize YOUR vehicle, they take whoever's vehicle you are driving; leased, corporate, neighbors wifes' minivan, whatever you are driving.
The irony is, if you are sober and driving without a license that was revoked for DWI, they DONT take the car. I agree the laws need some tweeking to say the least. Most of the bad accidents near me are DWI.

[beater68427]

I do not condone the act on either side, On the west coast the car has to be free of any lien and in your name, I have a leasing co, and most of my property is owned by the leasing co, and I lease it from it. this is not to protect a act of drunk driving but many other reasons. but in a case like this it would be protected at least in this state.

[TXZS]

If I bought the car, do you think the State of Tennessee would furnish '63 wheelcovers? They could keep the '64s.

[JChlupsa]

I wonder why they put this statement in the ad.

[ QUOTE ]
<font color="blue">ATTENTION -THIS VEHICLE IS SOLD WITHOUT A TITLE.

-RESIDENTS OF STATES OTHER THAN TENNESSEE WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY LICENSING THIS VEHICLE FOR ROAD USE. </font>

[/ QUOTE ]

Wouldnt you be able to take the bill of sale issued by the state and get a title for the car??

[njsteve]

Yes. If the state it's coming from permts the sale of a car on a bill of sale (common for cars older than 20 years) then you can register it with the bill of sale in another state. I know in Jersey they will take the out of state bill of sale and then issue you a title, since Jersey is still a title state no matter the year of the vehicle.

[mmcporter]

Drunk drivers are scumbags who deserve to lose the "right" to transport themselves by automobile. A long time ago I did a ride-a-long project with the police in my college town as part of my sociology class. While I saw a lot of disturbing and eye-opening situations, by the far the worst thing I experienced was rolling up to a "one car" accident in a neighboring town. The alcoholic woman driving the car had veered off the road and hit a chain link fence square on. In the passenger seat was her 14 year old daughter. I say "was" because the top rail careened through the car and killed the little girl instantly. The mother was so drunk she didn't understand what had happened. It was a scene so disturbing (I won't get graphic) that veteran officers were reduced to weeping and/or tossing their lunch. Before that evening, I was determined to enter law enforcement. After this experience, I gave up the idea of getting into law enforcement because I knew those types of calls would be brutal to contend with. However, to this day if I see someone on the road driving in a way that appears impaired, I will follow the offender and call local authorities on my cell. It's very satisfying to me when the blues roll up and pull the prospective drunk over. I keep hoping I saved someone's wife, husband, son or daughter from getting killed. We simply don't do enough as a society to stop these people from repeating their crime over and over with little or no punishment.