alt Hacker NewsImpound/tow/lien -> title has always been the easy button for getting legit title to a vehicle that was never supposed to be sold (UPS vans, Uhaul trailers, etc), so long as it was never reported stolen.
Absolutely hilarious that he managed to work the "doesn't work it if pops up as stolen" angle in the opposite direction to make the car impossible to really do anything with (i.e. no junkyard can take it whole, no subsequent changes of title can happen) and live in various sorts of limbo for 20yr.
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Some states have rules that enable junkyards to bypass any sort of checks if a vehicle is above a certain age.
Meant to expedite purging jalopies, this, of course, is horribly ripe for abuse by predatory tow companies.
Could you do anything like that to trick the DMV into letting you register a BYD vehicle in California?
Something similar happened to one of the Dominos delivery vehicles (a DXP [0]). The purchaser got sued for trademark violations [1]. In this case, the car was totaled in an accident and the insurance company sold it.
[0] - https://ir.dominos.com/news-releases/news-release-details/do...
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN-yLTDkAS4