Thanks Martin. It seems (or maybe it will be) that more states are coming around to making it possible to tag a truck that does not have the title. Like Dusty said, "handle it legally" and you won't have a problem down the road.
We had two titles here that vehicle-less. One was a friend's Sebring, same year as mine, that was crushed by a tree during Hurrican Sandy. We pulled parts off it that we wanted and then sold it for scrap. (Dang I could have used his rag top, but it was in worse condition than mine ... sigh.)
The other is a tile from a truck we had here that the gang took apart and pulled parts from during a Homecoming clinic.
The titles went into the trash last cleaning round.
Peg