New here, looking for advice on how to procede.

[Budget63]

Hey guys,

I have been lurking on here for a couple of months, and finally picked up a '63 C10 from a friend. It was a donor truck for a customer's project at his shop. They didn't have a use for it anymore and it was more or less a fairly complete truck in need of reassembly. So yes, my truck is a collection of parts that were deemed "not good enough to use for a build". I made a hasty decision and bought the truck with no paper work(I know, I know, bad idea). My friend told me that the truck had been in his possession for a year or two and that his cousin had owned it before him. Both of them had purchased it without a title, and that by this point it should be out of the dmv system, and that it would be as easy as going down to the dmv, and applying for a title.

Not the case, haha. I went to the dmv, gave them the plate number and the name of the guy I bought it from, and they told me "That is not the name of the person we have on file as the last registered owner". Of course due to privacy laws they couldn't tell me who it was. The roof on my cab is rusted through above the windshield, so I want to replace that anyway.

I don't want to part it out and give up on the project! I have been looking around at cabs for sale on Craigslist, and have found a few, but they are 64's and 65's (so i would also need new doors). I know the frames are different on 60-62's(narrower, correct?) than 63-66's, but will an earlier cab bolt right up?

This is all new to me and feels a little shady, but from what people have been telling me it isn't that out of the ordinary to get a different cab and register the truck with the vin tag on the door pillar (assuming you buy it from the legal owner). Anyone with any experience doing anything like this?