I'm Having a Problem Stealing a Car?

I had to evict a tenant 2 months ago but his damn derelict car is still here. It's been sitting in the same spot for 1.75 years. I want it, it has a nice 383 in it. It doesn't move unless you push it. I live in Missouri. I've already tried the DMV to get registration information on it and they won't tell me squat because of something called "DPPA" (Driver's Privacy Protection Act). Well, I circumnavigated that with a filing of a DOR-4678 form. I got my "Security Access Code" yesterday and now I'm filing out a form DOR-5017 to get online access to DMV records.

I'm about to become a very powerful force. Full access to driver's records, vehicle records, SSN numbers, etc. All for 3.8 cents per record check. Anyway, back to the story.

The car is, in all likelihood, not titled to the guy I evicted. I almost guarantee (99.999% positive) that it is still registered to the guy he bought it from (BTW, I've heard nothing from this evicted kid and he owes me about 4,000 bucks). There are about 5 ways I could handle this and I'm wondering which is best:

1). I could file and certified mail a DOR-5227 form after I find out who the titular owner is (abandoned vehicle, 30 days to respond). If the titular owner wants to come get it or takes an interest, I have no recourse, I can't stop him but to call the cops and charge criminal trespass (I don't even know who this guy is or if the certified mail will even be received, but a no delivery ticket is good enough in Missouri).

2). I could go for a lien sale (form DOR-4577 and DOR-108), notifying the titular owner and all lien holders that the vehicle is in storage and racking up charges by the hour, day, and week. There are problems with this one, the sale is actually conducted on the courthouse steps and while I'd get the money back, I want the car. I'd have to bid on the damn thing myself. The good thing is, if there were no bidders, it's mine for free. I'd be both the seller and the buyer.

3. A combination of both DOR-5227 and DOR-4577 (the one that says the titular owner owes me 1.75 years worth of storage costs).

4. Adverse possession. I could wait 5 more years and file a case in circuit court in 60 months for adverse possession (I don't like this one, but it's an option).

5. Strip it down and say hooligans did it. All I really want is the 383.

Is there anything I'm leaving out? The titular owner will probably not care about certified mail concerning an abandoned car he sold years ago and the punk kid that really does own it is too stupid to get it titled correctly. I have 0 legal responsibility to try to notify him. As they say at the Chinese laundry, "No tickey, no washey." I've been told that getting a car declared abandoned is a bad idea compared to conducting a (hopefully) uncontested lien sale.

What do you guys think?