When Darrell Nash sold his used SUV last spring, he thought the deal was done.

After all, the 66-year-old retired truck driver who lives near Langley, B.C., is a self-described "car guy" who says he has plenty of experience buying and selling vehicles.

A couple of months later, Nash says he was blindsided by a $1,500 towing and storage bill for a vehicle he no longer owned, thanks to what he calls a "terrifying loophole in how vehicle transfers are handled."

"It's a problem," Nash told Go Public. "A very strange situation … I didn't know what to do."

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While Nash was in hospital recovering from open heart surgery in March, his grandson, with permission, sold the family's 2004 Acura MDX to a stranger.

Nash says he s

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