Are Vin tags ( I already own the car) able to be reproduced?

Find a highway patrol guy at a coffee shop and ask him a "hypothetical" question. "My buddy owned this car, registered it and everything, but let it lapse. Then he swapped the dash because it got in a wreck and he lost the original dash plaquard with the VIN, then my, er, HIS wife destroyed all the registration papers. what can this guy do to get his car back on the road? I'm tired of looking at it...uh..in his garage that is..."