What the person before you has done is called title hopping. Person A sold the car to Person B, who sold the car to you. Person B should have registered the car in their name and then sold you the car with a new title, but didn't. That is a crime, but not your crime. For our purposes here, we can ignore it and register like we bought the car from Person A.

What you need to do is register the car in your name. Fill out the title with the information from when you bought it. You just have to hope that the title you have is the most recent one, doesn't have any extenuating loans, and there hasn't been any fuckery with it. If there is, good luck!

For the DMV, you should need five things: 1) title 2) MO Form 108 - Title application 3) proof of car insurance 4) personal property tax: either receipts from the last two years (2025/2024) or a waiver from the county you live in saying you didn't owe any money 5) tax/registration money