To the original poster, this is something I did. I have a motorcycle frame that was given to me in SC years ago. I live in Tn, and wanted a title for it. I called not only the TN DMV, but also the SC DMV to see if the bike was ever reported stolen, both states said that they had no records that went back that far, and nothing came up on the computer, so I applied for a title for in Tn, and received one cause it is older than 1979. Used the original vin.