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| turk22 |
 Jan 2 2013, 10:01 PM
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Treetop Flyer  Group: Members Posts: 735 Joined: 27-July 12 From: Cincinnati OH Member No.: 14,725 Region Association: Upper MidWest  |
All,
I've been doing a lot of searching in old threads (honest Andy!). But I'm not finding any details. I'm looking to find some history of my car. I believe it was a Palm Springs car for most of its life, and I emailed a couple current dealers in the area, asking if they had any records for the VIN number... but no luck I was hoping there was a way to trace back to which dealer originally sold the car, or possibly find some history or records for the car. (When I bought the car, there was no maintenance book, and the history story was not able to be verified). I have the original Cali Blue Plates, but not sure if they provide any value to getting some history for the car. Do any of you Cali guys have any tricks to find some history via the VIN or Blue Plate? Turk |
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| Tom_T |
Jan 2 2013, 10:12 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California 
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Steve,
The Cal DMV website has an info request form in pdf that you can download & send in with the CA plate numbers etc., & if it's still in their system &/or microfilm records, then they'll send you copies back as far as they have. Being that it's currently registered in OH now, then they should have it in their computer system at least, and if it's been out of CA less than 5-7 years, then there's a good chance that the microfilms weren't purged due to no active registration - but they may still consider out of state active too. You'll need to have or estimate the number of PO's & request a record for each & the check totals $20/record IIRC. From the oldest, you can track down the closest P+A dealer to the buyer/1st owner, by using the pix of the dealerships booklet on Jeff Bowlsby's website (in Tech Docs IIRC). If you know for sure it was first sold in Palm Springs, then you could go straight to Jeff's info. Don't expect those dealers to have any records of cars they sold 40+/- years ago, and most of the staff wasn't born then & couldn't care less about stuff us old car types find important. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) There are also DMV research services who will do the research for you, but it will cost $200-300 last I heard. |
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turk22 How to find the original dealer Jan 2 2013, 10:01 PM
draganc
All,
I've been doing a lot of searching in ... Jan 2 2013, 10:06 PM dlkawashima Do you have any paperwork that shows a dealership ... Jan 2 2013, 10:47 PM turk22 Thanks Guys, I've been thinking of getting a C... Jan 3 2013, 05:51 PM ConeDodger Mine came from Sierra Porsche Audi in Riverside. H... Jan 3 2013, 06:11 PM carr914
I think if you request a CoA from Porsche it ... Jan 3 2013, 07:33 PM bembry
[quote name='draganc' post='1795160' date='Jan 2 ... Jan 3 2013, 09:56 PM turk22 Well, after looking at some recent COA's onlin... Jan 4 2013, 12:09 PM StratPlayer I got lucky when I bought the car. Paper work ins... Jan 4 2013, 01:15 PM 914Eric As Dave said...Just look in the service book. ;)
... Jan 4 2013, 01:40 PM toolguy Porsche had that info once upon a time. . . when ... Jan 4 2013, 02:53 PM
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Well, after looking at some recent COA's onli... Jan 4 2013, 03:03 PM |
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