Aircooled VW South Africa

mg12werr wrote:I have to find the person who De-registered the car and get him to sign some papers

This seems to be their latest way of deferring work ! How are you supposed to find the person. Had the same situation - found the person but he wont sign anything ! A few years ago a an Sworn Affidavit would suffice - after all this is a car registered on a country wide registry so if something is a miss they can always find the car and its "new" owner.

Its really pissing me off but If I find this guy and I'm sure I will I will do every thing I can to get him to sign the papers

Man, just go to the Free State and register the darn thing. They'll do it

Springer wrote:

mg12werr wrote:I have to find the person who De-registered the car and get him to sign some papers

This seems to be their latest way of deferring work ! How are you supposed to find the person. Had the same situation - found the person but he wont sign anything ! A few years ago a an Sworn Affidavit would suffice - after all this is a car registered on a country wide registry so if something is a miss they can always find the car and its "new" owner.

What Springer said - this is just a bullsh*t excuse that they come up with to get rid of you. There is no way you will be able to find some guy who owned the car 10 years ago! Go to another department - the one you went to are just messing you around.

You see, this is why I said to phone lots of them. Ask EXACTLY what is required (like needing some dead/sick/lame/lazy/missing previous owner to sign papers for example!) and then go to the department that requires the least headache.

EDIT: this is also the reason I dont register cars I buy anymore - too much of a PITA to go through all this. That and all this new crap with charging people for using the highways - just makes more sense to not have the car in my name

Well then I better get on the phone

So how of you guys has ever got a car registered with out having a thing before (I have a piece of paper that has old licence plate numbers on and the Vin. number and even the surname of the person who owned it when it got scraped) where should I call first?

You wont believe it but I found the right guy and he still has the De-registration papers and is posting them to me

There is no way you will be able to find some guy who owned the car 10 years ago!

nicely done man! I have no idea how you found him!? was his number on one of your documents or something?

Na Facebook comes in handy some times

Im not to clued up with the new image thing but here it goes

This must be the only pic I could find that has no rust in. How do you like the sun-visor haha and if you look really close the mirror has been stuck on

Okay that worked, here is SOME of the rust (this is going to be lots of pictures)

























And thats all I have taken so far

thats not so bad

I not to good with sarcasm but I'm pretty sure you were joking

wow! you are a brave man to have bought that! IMO, you should just slam it to the ground and roll it as is until you can get a new early '60's body (and pan!) to transfer everything to! there is so much rust there - you have more rust than car