VIN for sale

[70 Challenger Lover]

But once it finds it's way into the hands of someone willing to resurrect this dead car, few people will ever learn the truth of this particular car.

[ec_co]

Where do you find a list of these VINs that should be 'retired' and not renter service?

Seems to me that you could resurrect a dead car like this, assuming it is not in some DMV database as salvage, and put it back on the road with 99.9% of the world being oblivious to what you did. Most cars trade hands without ever being researched or discussed in forum settings like this one. So how does a potential future buyer of this car become aware of it?

the scarier part to me: someone steals a real nice '71 and just re-VINs it and now has a 'legit' car. no resurrection needed, any forum members car will do

[70 Challenger Lover]

Good point. I hadn't thought about that.

[Street_Challenged73]

It's been reported to eBay as an auction that encourages illegal activities to take place after the sale. [emoji6]


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[Ricomondo]

Anyone buying ANY car should at the least Google the VIN. Then as @JH27N0B  did by posting the full VIN, this post will pop up in an internet search.
That is the minimum due diligence. But sadly, a lot of people won't take the time to research.

[70 Challenger Lover]

Anyone buying ANY car should at the least Google the VIN. Then as @JH27N0B  did by posting the full VIN, this post will pop up in an internet search.
That is the minimum due diligence. But sadly, a lot of people won't take the time to research.

What I do is go to my AAA and ask them to run the vin. They won't provide names or other confidential information but they will look up a car you want to buy and let you know if it's shown as stolen, or registration suspended for parking tickets, etc. Usually the answer on project cars is 'not on file' which means it has dropped out of everyone's data bases because it's been many years since the last registration. That's the best answer because then you just get a vin verification and apply for a new title, even if the old one is lost.

[torredcuda]

You can`t put 100% faith in any of these "registries" as they are not all proven to be sold as rebodies or such. As far as stealing a car and swapping that is the actual reason there are partial vin numbers stamped into the body panels. If you are looking to buy a car make sure the body stampings match the vin tag. Yes the body stampings can be cut out and welded in or recreated but it is a lot more work to do that and make it look like it wasn`t.

[6pack]

I had a 1970 SS chevelle stolen in about 1987.  It does not come up as stolen on any of the registries.  Even the national one for stolen vehicles.  Some data bases won't even except the VIN because it has fewer digits in it.  So I do not put much faith it them.

[ek3]

ncic is where the active listing is stored.[usualy 30 days] then it is purged into the ncib. {statistical data base } many times the ncib. file only shows the date of entry as stolen with no other info. i know a philly auto theft task force agent who showed me this. i was told many times there was no record of  a theft untill i met this agent !