[dwcsr]

Here in Texas if you don't have a title your best off going to a title company and bypassing the DMV until you have all the paper work done. The rules are applied not by statute as they should be but by who ever in the local office has the best memory of the last time they titled an old truck.

Title companies in Texas are usually run by ex DMV personnel and have a better handle on what the rules really are. Some times you get lucky and get passed right through with no issues other times you get the title flagged and its almost impossible to get it done unless you follow what the DMV office tells you to do right or wrong and you may end up with a composite title that needs to conform to a 2016 truck and emissions. Never ever ask the PD to look at it, they are most always wrong.

Not having an original engine number AND no vin tag is an issue here but all you need is any era correct block with a number running or not.