Buying a car with no Dash VIN?!

Here in Michigan, you walk in the Secretary of State and give them the title and the correct change and you come out with a temporary title and receive the new title in the mail in about a week! No questions, no inspection...nothing!! Of course, you could get pulled over and be in real trouble trying to prove the car is yours with no VIN on the dash, but that's for another episode!! Geof