I TOTALLY agree. I am not a lawyer either, but you beat me to it. If the original owner screwed the dad over before, does the op seriously think the he will gladly give up the titles now. There is no way I would buy a car without a title and then spend several years and several thousand dollars fixing it up only to find out that I cannot obtain a title for it. I do not see that selling them to someone who will fix them up to drive as an option. I would part them out.
