Buying an unregistered car

[lj915]

I live in Atlanta and want to buy a car from this guy who has not have plates for the car and it's not registered and he doesn't have insurance on it. He says it's a second car and he barely drives it. It's a 2004 Infiniti and has 25K on it.

He says his name is on the title. I ran a carfax report and it says it was put up for sale 2/05 and registered 8/05. This guy bought it in 2/05 but I guess he didn't register it in 05 until august and didn't renew the registration in 06.

I'm not sure if I should buy it or not. Why would someone not register the car? And I want to take it to a mechanic and he said I could but I'm afraid to drive it there because it's not insured.

I would appreciate any advice.

[lj915]

By the way, the VIN for the car is JNKCV54E44M821262. I also forgot to mention that there is nothing on the carfax report since 8/05.

-LJ