How do I get a title?

[teachkenpo]

Hi, I purchased a non-running 1968 912 without a title that I was planning on using for parts. Decided to pull and rebuild the carbs, adjust the valves, change the plugs, wires and fuel pump. Turned the key and it roars. The car is pretty solid, so I am thinking about restoring it. I have heard that you can get a title somehow. Can anyone tell me how? This little car deserves to be driven.
Thanks,
John

[C. Clark]

Go to your local DMV with vin# engine# body# and tell them the truth.
Chas.
356
912

[Peter T.]

Depends on which country you're from. Typically, all titles borne by persons today should be traceable back to some document of a specific date granting said title or confirming the right to bear a pre-existing one.

Documents such as rescripts, service lists, nominations to public office, and even correspondence signed by monarchs, cannot be used as proof of concession or confirmation of a title; these simply presuppose that the person in question already possessed the legal right to bear said title.

Adoption, although it can confer the name of the adoptive parent, does not confer noble status or a title unless accompanied a special decree from the monarch to this effect.

Titles that have become extinct in the male line cannot be assumed by descendants in the female line without express consent of the monarch unless such provisions were made in the original decree granting the title.

It may have been the sovereign's intent to grant a title, however, if, for whatever reason, the necessary documents were never issued and/or duly registered within the proscribed time period with the proper government authorities, the title in question cannot be legally or regularly borne by the prospective beneficiary or his descendants.

The right to bear a title can be lost, even by families of dynastic origin, for any number of reasons, and can only be legally reassumed by special permission from the monarch.

Titles, in general, were granted to specific individuals and their descendants, under varying conditions, and not to a family as a whole.

[C. Clark]

Ahhhh right.....
Chas.
356
912