A similar, but not exact same, thing happened a few years ago to my cousin. His car was stolen, and the theives took out the built engine, and then sold the shell to a kid in White County. The kid put a stock 350 in it, and then went to register it. It came up stolen, so they took it from him, and gave the car back to my cousin, who still was on the title, of course. Kid lost the money that he put into it.