Does that racket really go on in Missouri / Arkansas?
It has been an Arkansas scam ever since before we moved here in 1956. We always wondered why we could not find a decent used car in this state. It would be another 25 years before I found out why.
A local cop told dad not to buy a used car in Arkansas but would not say why.
Our company bought a brand new car with less than 35 miles on it. One day, months later, I noticed the paint on the right rear and the trunk were slightly different.
A quick check showed lots of Bondo all over the back of the car. It had been in a rear end accident, yet sold as a brand new car.
I bought a nice truck in 1990, till I discovered all the oil resivoirs looked like they had milk in them. A closer examination showed the truck had been under water for a while. Within two years I had replaced all rotating equipment for bearing failures, then the truck locked up due to oil strangulation from trash in the oil sump pickup tube. I had replaced the old oil with new oil.
I’ve seen “totaled” cars back on the road several months later. A couple were owned by me before they were wrecked.
I even got out and checked one and saw it actually was the car I had once owned. A total wreck now back on the road.
The scam is still going on as I was on jury duty not long ago. A man bought a brand new truck in Missouri, ran it down into Arkansas and resold it at an auto auction.
The purchaser got a new Arkansas title and put it on a car lot and sold it to an unsuspecting buyer.
The buyer comes home and finds his truck stolen.
It was the Missouri Credit Union who held the Missouri title had repossessed the truck.
The poor buyer was now left owing a bill to an Arkansas credit union for a truck he no longer had possession.