After a full year of owning the car, I finally got the title transferred into my name and had the car properly tagged and registered.

When I first received the title, it stated the wrong VIN. Apparently, the car had been mis-titled since at least 1978, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. After the previous owner graciously investigated, hired a lawyer and pushed the case through the Kansas court system, a Kansas judge granted a "quiet title" on the car. This means that the car gets a clean title and all previous history gets erased. Nice.

So, that took 6 months or so, and then I had the car down for 6 months or so doing the transmission, shifter linkage, various gaskets, a battery and the EDIS. I found it hard to pay for the registration before the car was actually on Texas roads. So now, after more than a year, I finally have the car in my name. Yippee!

We're still working out the insurance/nose damage issue, but I'm confident that that will be solved soon. I have a weekend roadtrip to Austin (375 miles or so) planned in a few weeks, so I will hopefully have everything fixed by then.