So I guess if a fire melts a car and dash vin plate is aluminum, it melts at 1221 or so degrees, and it’s a rare car, this new VIN plate is considered illegal?
That VIN plate is illegal in most, if not all states in the US regardless of how it’s used.
If you have an interior fire and your VIN melts, you contact your states DMV when the car is repaired. Since it’s your car, you should be able to verify that it’s your car and that the remaining numbers match. The state will then assign you a new VIN and rivet a new state assigned VIN plate onto a couple locations on your car. That’s the legitimate way to fix that problem.
There is also ECS, they have the copyright and license to remake the door stickers etc. that bear the VIN number. But I don’t believe they can make VIN tags for the dash, although I may be wrong in that. They require proof of ownership for just the stickers too.
There’s no reason to make this political, one has nothing to do with the other.
That plate IS illegal. And riveting it to a car is also illegal. As I said, there are perfectly legitimate ways to deal with a missing VIN, and none of them will involve using that plate.
