Another Attempt: Oh How I Wish I Could Locate This Car!

[dmastr3665]

my suggestion would be to clone it.

[1972V21Cuda]

If you got $5,500 for a green Challenger back in 1987, that was a ton of money! Back then, I would have sold it too for that price.

[RzeroB]

@7E-bodies  I live in "Ill-Annoy" too ... so I know the futility of doing just about ANYTHING with the DMV here. Nonetheless, I'm rooting for you and hope that your quest eventually reaches the desired conclusion. 

[7E-Bodies]

@RzeroB thanks. Misery loves company. I'd even be willing to bribe someone there. Anything to just get that damn final 5 digits of the vin.

[7E-Bodies]

@1972V21Cuda exactly. I'd been through an unforgettable tragedy, was in debt, and $5500 cash looked pretty good. It didn't really start to hit me until around 1995. By then, all records got lost in a massive fire and I'd forgotten names.

[IRON MAN]

California has CHP Referee Stations throughout the state. One of their many jobs is researching vin #'s. I purchased a gorgeous '72 Step side truck from a family before they moved to Oregon. The following weekend I surveyed the truck and discovered it had no vin plate. Called the CHP. The CHP said, if I am caught driving the truck it will be impounded and they scheduled an appointment for me to bring it to them (two week wait). I brought it in. The CHP  found the secondary vin on the frame, ran it through their computer system. The CHP were able to find out every previous owner's name & state. He said the engine came out of a stolen 81 Corvette, it was recovered by the insurance company who sold it to GM Sport Salvage in San Jose, who sold it to a guy in San Francisco who installed it in the truck, then he sold it to the family in Belmont who sold the truck to you. The CHP riveted a plate with the original vin on it with a control number. BTW, the truck was sold new in kentucky.

So, just maybe, your state highway patrol office can help you. Is that a box of doughnuts I smell?

[7E-Bodies]

@IRON MAN I'll look into that. However, the ISP isn't known for being very friendly. I may pull up and chat with a patrol that's sitting somewhere. Not a bad idea.

[RzeroB]

As you know, the ISP's HQ is only an hour or so away from Peoria down in Springfield ... why not just go on down there and pay them a visit??