Title Laws in New Hampshire

The NH DMV has a good website, should be easy to find under nh dmv .gov or close to that.

 

My son ran into this NH law about 5 or 6 years ago, at that time, any vehicle 10 yrs or older could be sold in NH w/o a title. He'd sold a car on time & was holding the MA title until he was paid & the 'buyer' sold the car in NH!!!

About the same time I bought a 12 year old motorcycle & all I received from NH was a statement of prior NH registration, which the MA registry accepted as a title. However, the Yamaha dealer told me that NH had gone to requiring titles on all new vehicles & was phasing out the no title thing in such a way that cars old enough to have not gotten titles could still be sold. Think it was a 1 for 1 increase in the exempt age each year.

I don't know when the title cut-in year was, but '87 has got to be pretty close to the boundary.

Try the nh.gov web site for current info tho.

 

fwiw, my understanding (and don't go trading stock on this) is that he CAN get a title - it just might not be REQUIRED. the process to get a title in NH on a vehicle without one is apparently non-trivial. i remember a buddy of mine having to do it in order to donate his old jalopy to charity. i think in the end he found another charity (after a long search) who'd take it as-is - he wasn't willing to spend the time jumping through hoops for a charitable donation.

doody.

 

Both my Porsche 928 & then Ferrari 328 were older than the 10 years & even though I had the PA & MO title I could not get one in NH. It's really no big deal. When I sold my 928 to a guy in PA I just had to fill our some extra papers so he could get it titled there.

Brad in NH

 

Interesting thread. When I went to register my '66 330 in RI the responded that I didn't need a title either because the car was over 25 years old. They looked at the previous owners title and gave it back to me saying it was of no consequence. I am keeping ALL the paperwork with this car so resale , if it comes, should be no problem.

 

If I'm not mistaken, NH will issue a title if you request it based on the registration document. If you buy the car in NH, you should be able to take the old registration to CT dmv and they'll either tell you get a title or push it through with bos and registration. Either way, I don't remember it being a particularly painful process - couple of forms to dmv should do it - old registration and bill of sale I think gets the job done.

 

I am a CT dealer this is all you need .