"I'll give you eight hundred," Silas said. "I take the risk, I do the heavy lifting, and I deal with the headache."
To most people, a truck without a title is a paperweight. You can’t register it, you can’t insure it, and you certainly can’t drive it on a public road without risking a trip to the impound lot. But Silas didn’t see a paperweight. He saw a puzzle. who buys trucks with no title
Silas leaned against the fender. "And then there’s me. I’ve got the patience to deal with the bonded title process. It takes months, a lot of fees, and a background check to prove it’s not stolen. Most people value their time too much to do it. I don’t." "I'll give you eight hundred," Silas said
Leo took the cash, looking relieved to be rid of the metal ghost haunting his driveway. But Silas didn’t see a paperweight
The gravel crunched under the tires of Silas’s beat-up flatbed as he pulled into the driveway of a house that looked like it was being reclaimed by the woods. In the bed of his truck sat a heavy-duty winch and a stack of blank "Bill of Sale" forms.
He walked Leo through the three reasons someone like him buys "ghost trucks": 1. The Organ Donors
Silas nodded, his eyes scanning the VIN plate through the dusty windshield. "People think the title is the soul of the truck, Leo. But the soul is in the iron. I’m the guy who buys the soul."