Originally Posted by ns1aar
Unless things have changed. If you have a bill of sale and a vin verification by the CHP or DMV you can get a title. Also it the car has been off the road for a long time it may have been purged from the DMV and a title can legally obtained. Lien sales can work also


Records are removed from the CA DMV after 7 years.

It's pretty stupid now days with the amount of cloud storage available.