Well, If I were you, I'd go to a small town Justice of the Peace, sit down, talk to him or her, and have him send in the paperwork, with a new Bill of Sale, saying its a 23 or a 27 or whatever. Then you get a title in the mail.
Or go thru the Title Co. there in B'ham, Al. They will get the title straightened out for you.
Ya know, this building a car has got to where its way more complicated than it should be. I just get receipts from everywhere I purchase things, hell, motors gotta have a piece of paper saying it was built by so&so, or a 'statement of Origin)(MY HEAD)....back in the old days, you just built it, they looked at it, inspected it, then you got your papers.
Your local speed shop, and local car club should help you out.
If you help educate the igmo's there within the system, next person that tries to title a T should not have these difficulties....
Everyone wants a piece of the pie. They wanna stamp, tax, liscense, regulate how much money it takes for you to ride your car down the road, thats all it is, plain and simple.