Yes, I did it all the "correct" way according to the DMV website as well as per phone conversation with the Title Bureau office in Albany. When I did it for my '77 TA it took a long time but went smoothly. But the TA was currently registered in the usual way with the two-year plates. I lost a years registration on that deal. Then I titled and registered a 1983 Yamaha that I had no paperwork on. What I did was to buy a bare frame from a guy in Ohio just to get a clean VIN. Then I transferred the motor and all the parts on to that frame and submitted it to DMV with the frame bill of sale and an MV-51B for proof of ownership. That I did right in person at the Jamaica DMV office- easy peasy. This ordeal makes no sense at all to me. If they had acted in a timely manner nothing would have expired and I would have been back on the road months ago.