Finding someone who owned a car?\ Getting a replacement title
 

Well I want to buy a car from a friends brother but there is one problem. He doesn't remember who owned it before him so there isn't a title in his name to transfer it from. Is there anyway to find who owned it? If someone had "source" i wonder if anybody could help me. Here is what I know about the car.
I know the VIN number
The old license platers are one the car.
I know an old Minnesota title number but the dmv can't release info on who owns it.
If anybody could help I would greatly appreciate it and make it up to them some way some how.

Well I am now wondering if there are any states that I can easily just get a new title for and transfer it to wisconsin. If someone could get me a title I would pay them $$$. I just don't wanna go through a title place and pay $150+ Or is there a way to search for a vechicle title number? or even a license plate search on a set of plates that is about 5-10 years old? If anyone is a police officer I was wondering if they could run the plates for me.???

PM me the vin# and make of car along with the license plate # and state. I will try to run a KSR and see what comes up.

I think you can just goto DMV and say you lost the title, or it was a paperless transaction or something like that.....when i bought my bike the guy didn't have the title and that was no problem....