I HATE DMV'S

The owners wife should not have sold you the car. She was responsible for going to the dmv and getting the title changed from her husbands name to hers, and she should have done that first.

And you probably should have known not to accept a title that was being signed by someone whos name was not on the title.

My mother just went through this kind of thing, After my father passed away she wanted to sell his 36Chevy project. She went to the dmv to get the title changed to her name,, she had to provide a death certificate and all that. and it still took the dmv 3 months to send her a new title. We had a buyer lined up, and sold the car after we got the title fixed.

Good luck getting it straighted out.