having no title usually is shady, get the vin and call the police and ask them to run it, or get online with bmv and do a vin/title search and find out the last owner that it was titled to, it will aleast give you a run down on who use to own it. I went through the same shit a few years back on a 240sx I bought, guy told me he bought the car from a lady, and never put the title in his name,I was just going to use the car as a parts car, so he figured that I would never need the title or look into getting it. I kinda knew the guy so I trusted him on the things he told me, a few months go buy and I get the car running because the things wrong with it were very minor, and wanted to get the title and get insurance on it, I call around trying to get a lost title with no luck, I went on the ohio bmv thing online and found a place where you could list the vin number of cars and it tells you the past owners , dates, and milage ect. I come to find out the cars last owner was in 1998 and it had 40k less miles then when I picked it up. Anyways now im really thinking somthing is up, I decide to call the police and have them run the vin and that way tey can clear the things up, come to find out the car was stolen our of marion ohio, they take the car back after I put the money into it getting it running ect. Im not sure if they ever caught the guy but I was pissed , either way I learned my lesson on buying anything with out a title.