What can I do to recover my car?

Question

On August 1 I sued an ex friend of mine, whom I bought a car from and payed over 4,000 dollars to fix, because the car was salvage.Two years later the car never got fixed, and I went to him to try to get the car towed off his lot he told me that I actually should have paid more,after two yeas he brought this up out of nowhere, so i took him to small claims, and found out that he countersued me for 7500 dollars for storage charges, and harrassment, anyhow the judge ruled in my favor, in which the judgement declared that he must pay me 1200, the judge never ruled on who can keep the car, so I went back to the court and filed a another motion, the same judge ruled and explicitly says that the defendant must deliver the car to the plantiff, which was on 8/15/2007.I tried to reach him he said that i would have to wait until 30 days after the judgement, to enforce the judgement, I called the court and that again affirmed that I would have to have to wait until 30 days pass, to get my car,

so the defendant appealed the judgement and we went to court on 9/28, and basically the money that I sued him for, I was not granted, however he ordered the defandant to turn the car over to me, I asked the judge what was the time frame he said within a week, and that I would have to make some type of arrangement to get the car with the defandant, due to the fact that he has over six cars blocking my car.So I call the defandant to make some type of arrangement to set up a date when I can come pick up the car, he says that hes not doing anything until get his letter of judgement and that he's not going to move his cars, and that I am going to have to tow all his cars in order to get mine, and that all he;s going to do is open up the gate and that's it...so I'm basically in the same predicatament I can't get my car, and I called the police and they are saying that they cannot make him move his car

Answer 1

That thirty days is to allow him to return the car after that you can sue him again for not returning the property and for violating the court order. that is called contempt of court.

IF THE JUDGE SAYS HE IS TO DELIVER THEN HE IS IN CONTEMPT. go talk with the judge about this and he can order the sheriff or local police to be there.

Answer 2

I believe he is in contempt of a court order, if you have a copy of the judgment I would take it down to the police station and show them in person, if they cant do anything then go back to court and hopefully the judge will make him give you the car that day. Judges do not like when someone does not do what they were ordered to do.

Answer 3

Wait 30 days and have an office do a civil stand by while you get the car.

Answer 4

Wait the 30 days then take the Law and go get your car