Just FYI if it needs a title and you buy/sell with out one it’s a crime. It happens everyday true enough but it’s a crime. If it has a lien and the lien holder finds it, you don’t have a leg to stand on they take it and you lose.

Nowadays we run an abandoned title, it almost always comes back to one of the title pawns, they sometimes pay the bill and come get it, sometimes just send us a title

Tell whoever owns it you’ll pay the $25 for the replacement and have them fill it out returned to you, get a POA to assign it to you when it arrives. If they don’t wanna do that move on.