Help... Vin #'s dont match

You think? Or maybe they'd say "close enough"!

I mean, they've got a car with a matching partial VIN to a stolen car that also has a swapped VIN tag and an altered stamping? Slam dunk. Heck of a coincidence otherwise....

There is no swapped VIN tag. There is a car with a title and some numbers on various panels, some of which could have been changed due to repairs (not unknown on a forty year old car).