I’m trying to correct the registration on my truck. Since then I’ve learned it’s a 1951 (wing Windows with lever style door handles)
Why?
51 doors don't mean the truck is a 51. Doors were one of the most replaced items on these trucks. For example nowadays it's common to install 47-50 doors on 51-53 trucks because owners want one-piece glass and not wind wings.
Your truck currently has a bonded title so why open a can of worms with the DMV? They are NOT there to help you. They are there to put obstacles in the path of anything unusual or with which they are unfamiliar. You called the plate a "VIN plate." In 1951 the data plate numbers were not VINS - they were manufacturers serial numbers. Many states used engine numbers - long gone in many cases, hence no actual number to identify the truck. Therefore it's hard to hold a 70-year-old truck to modern day registration criteria. Bonded titles are interim titles to suffice for a period of time to ascertain if any problems or claimants appear - and here you are shooting yourself in the foot by bringing up a problem with your own truck. If this is to exercise an obsessive need to have everything perfect, it could cause you some real problems.
