Think I'd start knocking on doors. I got a '63 Porsche Karmann Knotch Coup
for $300 years ago the same way and a free VW bug another time (folks had
actually started to help themselves to parts on the bug).

"Braukuche" > wrote in message
...
>I live in So Cal and noticed recently a early Porsche (mid '50s model I
> estimate) on the street which has now three parking tickets on it for
> expired
> registration. I left a note on the car earlier this week that I would be
> interested in buying the car, assuming that the owner must have lost
> interest
> in it since the car is on the verge of being towed. The tickets and the
> note
> are still on the car and none of the neighbors I have talked to know the
> owner,
> though one guy mentioned he had seen the guy around before. I hate to see
> this
> car towed away and then end up being auctioned off. Is there some sort of
> loophole in the DMV code allowing someone to claim an abandoned car by
> posting
> reg fees or something or is the car destined to go to the impound yard and
> then
> to city-auction?
> --Dan E