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I'm in the midst of trying to find the previous owners of my 1968 Corvette coupe, prior to 1989. Many states don't keep title information for more than 5 - 10 years (e.g, 7 years in Ohio, 8 years in Michigan). Other states have privacy laws that specifically prevent releasing the name/address of previous owners, and will only tell you facts such as if the car was ever salvaged, etc. What I'm proposing is that NCRS start logging the names and addresses of current Corvette owners by car VIN number. NCRS is a membership organization, not a government entity, so it should be able to collect and release this information to members. Five or ten years down the road, this information could prove invaluable to the buyer who purchased his car from a dealer, or where the history of the car has been lost because the previous owner died, moved, or misplaced the information. Such information might have been of great value to me if NCRS had been collecting it for the last 25 years.
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Who is the NCRS? You and I are. We don't have innumerable employees sitting around looking for projects to occupy their time. All we would need would be a committed volunteer and some really good liability insurance.
By the way, there are individuals within the NCRS, myself included, who have done that for many years on certain years or body styles. -
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It took me about a year to find the information on 8 of the 9 previous owners of my 1963 SWC and I'm 99% sure of the dealership that sold it. I still don't know one previous owner and probably never will.
Granted, I did the research "part time". I plan on passing the information on to the next owner. Now that I have it and have done everything but a frame-off on my car, I have enough history to be satisfied with the state of the car.
I can't imagine keeping track of a million plus cars in some large database even if I didn't do the research to find all of the previous owners. I have to believe it would consume a least a few people's time.
It's nice to dream but I think it will have to remain just that; a dream.Comment
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I just completed a 10 year (on and off)search on my 67 Coupe. 2 weeks ago I received the Original title to my car, it contained the name of the original owner, the credit union he financed it through the dealership he traded it into and the name of the second owner (which I had). I did a search on his name and came up with a phone number. I sat back and wrote up a list of questions that I'd ask if I was able to contact him. That night I made the phone call and he answered and was VERY pleased to know that the car still existed, we spoke for about an hour and twice since along with about 10 E-Mails. He has the owners card & patch. How cool is that?Comment
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I'm building my own database of cars and I can tell you that concentrating on only a few years is a very time-consuming task. Cars show up everywhere and often for a very short time, so you have to find it, react, retrieve the information, and record it. You can't put it off until Saturday or next week or whatever. And with all that occurs on the internet, there can be a huge number of cars at any given time.
If you are searching for the past, you may be lucky and have the past searching for you, althugh not you by name. As such, the different registries are good places to check frequently and to be sure you are on them.
And then there is the VetteSite.com Previous Owners list.
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Thanks for all the responses, and congratulations to those whose search came up with the information they sought. But I must disagree with the assertions that the task would be labor intensive, computer memory intensive, or subject the organization to liability concerns:
True, NCRS is you and I. For each of us, NCRS has on file our name, address, phone number, and credit card number. How did they get this ? You and I typed it in. Would it be that much more difficult to optionally allow us to enter our car's VIN number, if we wanted to participate in a registry by our car's year ?
Since the registry would be voluntary, where's the liability issue ? If you want to participate, do so. If you don't, then don't.
The registry information could be copied out to storage every six months or so. Sounds like about 2 seconds of computer time for even the slowest computer (such as mine).
After 5 to 10 years, the data could be searched by VIN number at the request of a current car-owner-NCRS-member as far back as the data existed. Get a match, and you've struck pay dirt. No luck, then join the crowd.
Obviously, this won't do me or anyone now reading this discussion any good, but 30 years from now, some current old-Corvette owner might have even more reason to be thankful for NCRS.Comment
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This was exactly the reason the C1, C2 and C3 Registries were build. In years the information on the cars will be enrichted tremendously enabling future owners to find previous owners and background information on their cars...
greetings,
Rob Musquetier
developer C1, C2 and C3 Registries.
The C3 RegistryRob.
NCRS Dutch Chapter Founder & Board Member
NCRS Software Developer
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