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Originally Posted by mr48chev
A good reason to thoroughly investigate the vin of a "was abandoned on the farm" trucks before spending a plugged nickle of your hard earned money on it after you buy it. Pre internet it was pretty easy for a vehicle to totally disappear if it got out of the state it was registitered and stolen in. A local law enforcement might run the plates on a vehicle abandoned in a field but if didn't have plates or the plates were off another similar vehicle that wasn't reported stolen that was about as far as they went investigating it.
I have that fear that one of these days one of the guys on here who is asking how to get a title for the "field find" truck he or she has spent thousands of dollars and hours on will show up as a stolen truck and the guy had his trash hauler beater stolen from his yard 25 or 30 years ago will be celebrating like the guy in the story after being tracked down.
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I think your right , now departments can cross check and find out whats up they catch a lot at the ports now that would have just slipped by that and the fact that more of these truck and cars are being sold and fixed up that the stolen ones are coming out of the woods so to speak. That next barn find may be an expensive one if your not carefull