Law enforcement may come to inspect the car and run the VIN to be sure it is clean, that's not a bad thing. I've had that done with replica cars. They also look for matching VIN's on the engine, transmission, and chassis. You could request they fill out the appropriate paperwork for DMV to correct the title.

Engine and trans are long gone and replacements in their place. I've thought about the State Patrol, or any state inspection, and am considering removing the engine/trans that I installed before any inspection. I bought it as a gutted roller and don't want items I installed causing concern or confusion. I do have a copy of the valid MN title I got with the car, in the previous owners name, as proof it was titled like this by the state before me. I would have thought the state computer would have spit the vin back out as invalid when it was first registered here, but, obviously, that didn't happen.

Going to take some phone pics this weekend and go to the local SP division nearby, with a copy of my title, and see if I can talk with someone there who is familiar with titles and the inspection service about this issue. The DMV wants the same thing, but to surrender the title along with a form to SEE if the state will just issue a corrected title. The title is NOT leaving my possession until I feel reasonably confidant that I will get one back with the vin corrected.
Thanks for the replies, guys...

This may be an easier way…
https://wisconsindot.gov/pages/dmv/v...rety-bond.aspx

Thanks, I lived in MN when I bought this and don't want to get, yet another, state jurisdiction involved.

I was a bystander (fortunately!) in a situation where a guy bought a car in CO, registered it in IA, and 35 years later, after he sold it out of state, the new owner in WA discovered the VIN on the title was for a different car.

Cool heads prevailed, the buyer's State Trooper friend walked him through a search and inspection which lead to a clean title issued using the cars original VIN. All Good, it can be done!

This was a NOM running driving car with original tags intact. - Bill W

Bonding creates more financial costs and a bonded title that may never go away. Not much better than a revin.

The state may want this with a corrected title anyway, to protect itself from lawsuits.

I never did anything further with this last year, as I didn't want to have to get it off the lift, loaded and trailered to an inspection site in the winter.
I went to the main DMV for the state in St. Paul today with the pics of the TT, vin tag, all the previous paperwork with the rpo codes as the vin and a title correction form. The girl scanned the pics into the computer along with the correction form and 7 minutes later the vin came back as clean and it was changed in the state registration immediately. All I have to do now, is wait for the new title to arrive !!!!!!!
What a HUGE relief, it didn't get all convoluted and complicated...:cool2:

You need to send her flowers. Kind of a unicorn these days: a level headed, logical civil servant.

She is one in a Million at a DMV office for sure. Bill