bro that's where you use friends or others to help out.
**** I've had people look at cars for me in Townsville and Melbourne/Vic - love them vic boys. Loves the girls more
but yeah in NSW our former pinkslip /e-safety cheek means it's got to be roadworthy if it's too have rego period. inspected once a year. It's not hard to find shifty people but it means 90% of it will work.
Where was this guy in Sydney?
If you do find anything in NSW around Sydney Give me PM I can have look for ya.
The other thing In NSW
you do two things - Revs check for money owing mostly only on more newer cars but some people have car loans linked to $5K bombs still.
And Australian car history check. It's worth it incase your might not be dealing with the right owner or example someone looks at my car and see's it had when I bought it 189,000km's on it's dial now it has 30,000km's . Do note the RTA know. But if I false advertise well then. I get can done for false advertising