How to find the original dealer, or any history for my car Options

[turk22]

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

[turk22]

Well, after looking at some recent COA's online, and seeing what the contain, and reading about some of the mistakes, I'm wavering on getting one. I'll probably get one at some point, since I have so little documentation for the car as it is, it will be worth something if I ever sell it on.

Its really disappointing that so little information can be gleaned from the VIN in the public space, but giving that there were no electronic records in the early 70's I guess its understandable.

I can only imagine how much more valuable the car would be with the original maintenance book and/or window sticker.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif)