You can apply for a duplicate or a lost title yourself… they just give you a bonded title after they check the database, and you wait a year then you get a clean title to your car. Get pictures of the car, odometer, engine block # and vin. Took me less then 24 hours to get a bike out of impound that wasn’t in my name, just bought it and got pulled over for no plate took it at 5 pm got it back at 3pm.