How to sell a car you want off road only?

   / How to sell a car you want off road only? #1  

JasperFrank

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I have a '93 Ford Festiva. 235,000 miles. I've taken the back seat out of it.
This thing has been amazing to me, for what it can haul and do. But its reaching a point that it isn't road worthy, so I want to sell it. And I want to sell it cheap, but I don't want some young person buying it to fix up. In my mind this car should have an afterlife, but it should be as a Race Platform or a Farm Vehicle.
Is there specific, legal, language I can use to prohibit its use as a road vehicle. And I know what "as is, where is," means. Can I say in the title transfer, what use the car can have? Mainly, you can't fix this up to be road worthy. I want it to be either a farm vehicle or a race car frame.
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only? #2  
Take your car and title to the recycler. If you sell it, it belongs to someone else. Why do you want to be so controlling over someone else's property? :rolleyes:
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only? #3  
I have a '93 Ford Festiva. 235,000 miles. I've taken the back seat out of it.
This thing has been amazing to me, for what it can haul and do. But its reaching a point that it isn't road worthy, so I want to sell it. And I want to sell it cheap, but I don't want some young person buying it to fix up. In my mind this car should have an afterlife, but it should be as a Race Platform or a Farm Vehicle.
Is there specific, legal, language I can use to prohibit its use as a road vehicle. And I know what "as is, where is," means. Can I say in the title transfer, what use the car can have? Mainly, you can't fix this up to be road worthy. I want it to be either a farm vehicle or a race car frame.
I think your heart is in the right place. However, you can't fix/save stupid. The buyer that is...

i guess you could write the ad to say, not roadworthy, if you are trying to CYA. save a copy of that.
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only? #4  
I have a '93 Ford Festiva. 235,000 miles. I've taken the back seat out of it.
This thing has been amazing to me, for what it can haul and do. But its reaching a point that it isn't road worthy, so I want to sell it. And I want to sell it cheap, but I don't want some young person buying it to fix up. In my mind this car should have an afterlife, but it should be as a Race Platform or a Farm Vehicle.
Is there specific, legal, language I can use to prohibit its use as a road vehicle. And I know what "as is, where is," means. Can I say in the title transfer, what use the car can have? Mainly, you can't fix this up to be road worthy. I want it to be either a farm vehicle or a race car frame.
Maybe obscure part or all of the VIN on the car and paperwork. This idea just a shot in the dark.
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only?
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#5  
Take your car and title to the recycler. If you sell it, it belongs to someone else. Why do you want to be so controlling over someone else's property? :rolleyes:
Do you want to buy it $1,200? :)
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only? #6  
Sold cars with a Bill of Sale for Parts Only… no warranty given or implied.
 
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Do you want to buy it $1,200? :)
I already have a lot full of junk cars. I'll trade you a '93 Mustang Convertible. A new top is more than it's worth.
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only?
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As said, but somehow not read correctly, I don't want someone thinking this is a a good deal to be a road worthy car. It isn't and will need 400 or so dollars to replace all the bushings in the front end. Not an issue if its a farm vehicle, or a base for a race car. But I don't want to sell to someone that thinks its just a cheap car, to use on the roads. That part of this car's life is over. But it still has life in it, maybe 75K more miles. I look at UTVs, an I am thinking, you could take the doors off
You could even cut the roof off and haul a hell of a lot. As race cars, these seem to be good platforms, because they were so light.
 
   / How to sell a car you want off road only? #9  
I’d sell it and not worry about it but if you truly don’t want it on the road sell it to a dismantler and rip up the title.
 

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