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Paul has a good point here.
Most states keep archives of title records. For those who don't know, I
work at DMV in Oregon. If a person wanted to know the ownership history of
a vehicle titled in Oregon, they could order what we call a "title
history". It would show which dealers had the car during it's history in
Oregon. Due to privacy laws, names and addresses of individual people
would be excluded. Perhaps your state's DMV has something
similar?
I purchased a title history on my
'57 Fury. It came to Oregon from Sparks, NV in 1967. I contacted
Nevada DMV to see how much further back they could go, but unfortunately Nevada
is one of the states that doesn't archive this stuff. Anyway, the
interesting thing is that I was able to find out that my Fury changed titles
about 9 times between 1967 and 1972, and all the owners were 18-25 year old
males . . . so I'm sure the car saw it's share of races! The car was
abandoned in 1972, then mysteriously sold to the father of who I got it from in
1974. I have a copy of the Bill of Sale from the City of Eugene, OR to the
buyer - they sold the car for $10 !!! Then my Fury sat and rusted until I
came along in 1989.
Another note for Oregon
forwardlookers: A fire at the state archives in the mid sixties destroyed
all records prior to 1965 or so. You know what THAT means . . .
sorry.
Mark
mjh
'57 Fury, '57 Savoy OD, '68 300
convert
I was looking for
the dealer info.
Regards
Dave.
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>
What exactly is it that you are trying to find out? If there is
nothing
available from the point it was built, maybe you can find out
something by
starting at the end, and working back.
>
> Most
states have pretty good records. Do you still have contact with the
person
who sold it to you? He may be able to tell you where he got it. From
there
you might be able to go at least a couple of owners deep into its
past.
When a car changes from one state to another, the new state doesn't
usually
record where the car came from before that. You are usually stuck
unless
you can correspond with past owners to find out what states the lived
in
while they had the car.
>
> Good luck, I am also interested in my
car's history. Often there is very
little to go on.
>
>
Paul
>
> In a message dated 8/27/2004 4:37:42 PM Eastern Daylight
Time, "Dave &
Tracy" <dave-tracy.sherratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
>
> >Today I got in touch with the museum @ Dearborn,
with asking some basic
information. The reply was that all the microfilm
information had been
destroyed some time back. Going by what they say other
than the build sheet
our car has no history, if that is the case where do I
need to start to
look.?
> >Regards
> >Dave.
>
>60 Le Baron sedan.
> >
>
>
>
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