47-55.1 California Vin Verification

['64C20]

Anyone know someone in the Sacramento area who is hip on these trucks? Need to do a vin verification, CHP is hit and miss and ny loal DMV doesnt do 1987 and older vehicles.

Its a builder 1950 3600 that came out a field, origonal owner lost the title im a fire and the truck is out of the system. Has a partial 6 cyl engine, but the origonal serial number plate.

Any help is appreciated!

[vintovka]

Good luck. One of the reasons its easier to leave the state and live elsewhere

[JDarby]

Californucation baby, thats what I'm talk'n bout!

Hello Tejas, best state in the 48 contiguous states!

Closed Borders! Open carrie law's!!

Easy Peazey when it comes to Street Rods and Such!!

Come Join Us!!!

[Rickysnickers]

If you are a AAA member, they used to do them.

[mick53]

I bought my 53 from the back lot of a dealer in Orange county in 1980. I just took the paperwork to the DMV and got plates. About 5 years later I was living in Desert Hot Springs and got pulled over. The police officer noticed my Vin didn't match my registration. I had to take it to the CHP garage after work for 3 days While they looked for numbers. They finally just gave me a California Vin plate.

[mr48chev]

The truck may be out of the system but I'd bet even money that the original title is sitting in a file in Sacramento way back in the archive warehouse. The owner of record would have to go and file a lost title report and there is a fee but unless the old paper title in the archives were destroyed an hour or so of a file clerk's time can find it.

If you have the truck now, I'd be searching every nook, cranny and hidey hole for an old registration or insurance slip. Either would have the vin on record on it.

Some states used the engine block serial number (Oregon for one) and some used the door post tag number. This link shows engine serial number prefix for 41/57 Chevy six cylinders. https://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com/models/engine.htm

This is the link for the GM heritage center vehicle information kits. just click on 1959 truck and open the pfd and scroll down to serial number decode. https://www.gm.com/heritage/archive/...formation-kits

The prefix for the door post number should have a number for the plant, H for 1950 R for 3600 and a letter for the month plus the production number. The engine serial number is further down the page.

Have you ducks in a nice tidy row before you go to get the vin verified. Make sure that the door post number is indeed for a 1950 Chevrolet 3600. check the block serial number and see if it is for a 1950 3600. Both of those numbers being correct for a 1950 3600 put you one peg ahead of the game. Where guys run into trouble is when the numbers on the truck don't jive with the year model on the bill of sale or paperwork. Make sure that the numbers jive and they are getting super picky on door post tags that appear to have been removed and put back on in California. A guy on the Hamb got rejected for that a few weeks ago.

The engine serial number and door post number never are the same. Not the letters or the production number. There is no stamped number on the frame.

['64C20]

@Mr48Chevy

Have not ran the engine tag but the door tag matches up to the '50. I am looking into some companies that can take care of the entire process just to negate the headache of the DMV. They have started to phase out alot of the thing they accomplish onsite in vavor of the online method.

Some mentioned AAA, they only do Vin verifications for '87 and newer vehicles.

[e015475]

Originally Posted by JDarby

Californucation baby, thats what I'm talk'n bout!

Hello Tejas, best state in the 48 contiguous states!

Closed Borders! Open carrie law's!!

Easy Peazey when it comes to Street Rods and Such!!

Come Join Us!!!

Wait, what? A Texan inviting Californians? Do your fellow Texans know about this?

I'm no help to the OP, but the Barrett-Jackson auction folks managed to get the law changed here in Arizona to allow removal of an identifcation plate if its in furtherance of a restoration for certain years of cars/trucks. It used to be a felony here to remove a ID plate during the painting/restoration of a car.

Arizona has made it almost impossible for an off-site vehicle inspection and the only place with full-time inspection staff is in Tucson or Phoenix, both 160 miles away from me. I need an inspection and I'm not confident driving the truck that far, so looks like i'll have to have it trailered, What a PITA

I've had some reasonable luck getting old title duplicates for cars I've bought and not bothered to transfer the title (sometimes requiring a bonded title to get it in my name)

Best advice is to not buy cars/trucks with title issues - but here we are

[mr48chev]

After the BS artists had their say one of the guys (Jalopy Joker) on the Hamb gave two viable suggestions in the Sacramento area

Try these: in Citrus Heights, Classic Reg Service 1-916-560-9506 // Auburn Auto Registration Service 530-820-3348


https://www.facebook.com/classicregservice/

https://auburnautoregistration.com/

I'd say that a bit of research and maybe distance to travel to get it done may be the deciding factor Both are legit and both deal with these things.

[Fitz57]

Call Phil at Pro Truck Licensing, lives in Placerville. (530) 416 1124
He use to work for the DMV and has access to their Data Base. Not sure if he can do a vin check, but could tell you if it’s still in the system and what forms you would need and might be able to assist from his business so you wouldn’t need to go to DMV.

Super nice guy and has helped me out a couple of times.

[Rickysnickers]

Originally Posted by '64C20

Some mentioned AAA, they only do Vin verifications for '87 and newer vehicles.

Yep, that was me. Thank you for letting us know that they don't do older vehicles.

If I were still in CA, I could do it for you.

['64C20]

Originally Posted by mr48chev

After the BS artists had their say one of the guys (Jalopy Joker) on the Hamb gave two viable suggestions in the Sacramento area

Try these: in Citrus Heights, Classic Reg Service 1-916-560-9506 // Auburn Auto Registration Service 530-820-3348


https://www.facebook.com/classicregservice/

https://auburnautoregistration.com/

I'd say that a bit of research and maybe distance to travel to get it done may be the deciding factor Both are legit and both deal with these things.

Thanks for the post! I am actually a member over there to and saw the thread!

I have found a couple of other spots to do it also, so have alot of places to look into!

Thanks for the help everyone!