55.2-59 Locating a truck

[mr48chev]

Just to make sure, I ran the vin on my 77 1 ton last night and because it is not a 17 digit vin it got kicked back as not 17 digits.

Most of the sites that you look up vins on only handle 17 digit vins. The same one found my HHR right off. I might spend the dollar and get the report but am pretty sure that it was in a rental fleet before my daughter bought it as it had rental fleet dump it mileage on it.


Every time one of these things come up and it is fairly often there is always some uninformed individual who says go ask a cop to run the vin. Any good cop will tell you straight to your face that that is illegal in all states.

The DMV is not allowed to give you a name or address. THAT IS ILLEGAL. I couldn't even get confirmation that the vin on an Arizona title I had was correct because who ever owned the car before I got it carried the title in their wallet folded up. I didn't have the car where I could run out and check the vin as I had bought it, took the title with me to get it transferred and get plates and the car was 80 miles away.

With these deals a number of people need to read the federal privacy act.

Truth is the memory of the old truck as you uncle had it may better as a memory and not destroyed by finding the truck and discovering that it is now nothing like your uncle's old truck and if it stayed in the area you may have actually seen it at a local show all done up 100 percent different than what you remember. 95% of the 47/59 trucks in this group are someone else's uncles old truck that some guy wishes that he could find but would be mad to find that the one I have is chopped with suicide doors, or that the one someone else now has an S-10 frame and LS and isn't the old green truck with the 216 that they rode in with Uncle joe on the way to the lumber yard back when they were ten. Be careful of what you wish for.