Author Topic: Getting vehicle chain of ownership  (Read 2504 times)

gcarguy

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Getting vehicle chain of ownership
« on: January 20, 2015, 14:22:58 »
I am trying to trace ownership history on my 66 230sl. Would appreciate knowing who or where to contact.
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KevinC

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Re: Getting vehicle chain of ownership
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 23:45:09 »
I am not sure "WHO" would have a process to determine previous ownership.   Any docs supplied with the car and info from who you purchased it from is all I can think of. 

dpreston Virginia

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Re: Getting vehicle chain of ownership
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2015, 02:52:05 »
The best way is one owner at a time. You know who you purchased the car from. Contact the owner and try to find out who they purchased the car from and call that owner. DMV used to give out info but, they stopped doing that years ago. I purchased a 67 Corvette in 1990 and the Va. DMV gave me copies of all Va. Titles. It was easy to run down the owners and talk with them and document the ownership trail. Too bad those days are gone.
I have good ownership records for all of my cars and I really didn't try too hard. Each car had enough paperwork to easily do the search to find most owners. It was fun.
190SL 1960 Sold
280SL 1969
280SE 1969 cabriolet
Vette 67
Porsche 912 67