Friendly reminder to periodically Google your VINs
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03/13/20 01:54 PM
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With every passing year and the increasing popularity/power of the Internet, new broadcast sheets, fender tags, invoices, window stickers, past ownership history, and original engine/transmissions are being posted looking for their rightful homes. Laws are in place forbidding people from finding the car by VIN (rightly so), so these items rely on YOU finding them instead of vise-versa.
Google your full vin, google it again with any zeros replaced by the letter O, and google just the last 8 digits especially if youre missing your original powertrain components.
Don’t forget to also use the search feature at hamtramck-historical.com independently of a google search.
You may be one of the lucky ones
Also, if you’re bored, post any story you may have of dumb luck reuniting something to your car. They’re always fun to read.
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Re: Friendly reminder to periodically Google your VINs
[Re: Pacnorthcuda]
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03/13/20 08:46 PM
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I wasn’t meaning to turn it into a vin posting debate. That’s another song. Good or bad, there’s a lot of them out there associated with unclaimed documentation.
Has anyone claimed a lost fender tag or broadcast sheet decades later? Original owner find their hot rod back? I’ve got a couple stories I might type out later
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Re: Friendly reminder to periodically Google your VINs
[Re: Rhinodart]
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03/13/20 10:05 PM
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There is a Farcebook group I belong to that is all about fender tags. I expressed thoughts about not posting full VIN's from fender tags and almost got run out on the rails! You didn't get run out on the rails--you simply found few sharing your POV. There was nothing but civility in the discussion.
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Re: Friendly reminder to periodically Google your VINs
[Re: Diego (not Ted)]
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03/14/20 10:15 AM
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There is a Farcebook group I belong to that is all about fender tags. I expressed thoughts about not posting full VIN's from fender tags and almost got run out on the rails! You didn't get run out on the rails--you simply found few sharing your POV. There was nothing but civility in the discussion. Well you don't get to see my PM's now do you?!?
The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it.
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