Good luck with getting your repo tag,please keep posting your results. I had my vin tag off my car for over 10 years.. I bought a redone dash pad and had to send the old one in for a core but didn't have the correct rivets to put on new pad. So it went in storage with a lot of other parts. I was recently getting the parts together and I searched for 3 days on where I put the tag. I was starting to worry that I lost it. Luckily I found it but I was thinking if I hadn't, where could I get a repo. Having title, sheet and fender tag, I had plenty of reference showing the correct vin.

By the way, it is a 71 car and has the asterisks on the tag.