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Posted: 3/1/10 6:23am Message 21 of 26
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palm city, FL - USA
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Vette(s): 1969 c3 w/350-400hp t top coupe red,munzie 4spd
i do agree. However, I have run the both numbers on NICB and nothing shows as stolen or junked or waterlogged. Of course this could have happened 40 years ago so either way I assume statute of limitations would have run anyway. I would like to find a way to do a real Title VIN check on them both but since they are before 1981 its not readily done. Any clues as to how to get a complete check will be appreciated.


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Posted: 3/8/10 6:04pm Message 22 of 26
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Can you tell me where to get a vin tag?

I can show title, frame, and damaged tag.

All match


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Posted: 3/8/10 7:46pm Message 23 of 26
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Greensburg, IN - USA
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Your 1st stop has to be a visit to your local law enforcement station. There they will provide you with paperwork showing the vehicle is not suspect or stolen.

From there they will send you to the BMV. I am not quite sure how your local BMV will approach your titlework. They may have you apply for an abandon title based on the absence of the original title in relationship to the original VIN numbers.

They might also assume that it is nothing more than a clerical error and send yours off to have the necessary corrections made.

Either way I don't see your title work as being too much of an issue. It would be interesting to know how this event came about but then....... some things are better off left alone,

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Posted: 3/9/10 7:11am Message 24 of 26
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HOWELL, NJ - USA
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I truly believe you got yourself a 1969 based on the trim tag,  gills in the body and all the other numbers that point to 1969 production. My guess is that there was either a birdcage corrosion issue or a bad accident and they got a replacement from a donor car and failed to switch the tags.
 
I also noticed some black spraypain overspray on the pillar and vin tag itself. Someone was definitely monkeying around in there. Pop off your kick panels and see if you notice any non-factory/repair type welding going on - that'd be a sure sign that the cage was replaced...
 
Good luck with this.
 
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Posted: 3/9/10 12:34pm Message 25 of 26
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Vette(s): 1969 c3 w/350-400hp t top coupe red,munzie 4spd
Indiana has records back 10 years only. However, their purge files show the original VIN owned by an individual and an insurance company up to 1983. It seems to be an Indiana car since beginning. The 1972 VIN shows up as far back as 1992. It would appear that the rear upper body of the car was repaired or replaced. The frame does not appear damaged but some work appears to have been done to the cage left post and door area. 

The US DOT has no interest. The Florida DMV will come and verify that the real VIN should be what it is. Then what? Indiana would issue a State Issued VIN but we are not residents of Indiana so no go. The NICB won't talk to mere civilians. Sounds like a whole lot of folks doing very little to me. 



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Posted: 3/9/10 9:09pm Message 26 of 26
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For whatever reason, what you have is a 1969 Corvette, with a title and  VIN plate from a 1972 Corvette. You stated that it showed to be "owned" by an insurance company at one time...that should tell you what has happened. The car was "totaled" as far as the ins. co. at some point, would be my bet.
I don't want to get into a big hu-bub about it, but my thoughts are, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...it's a duck. Something is just not right about the whole thing, imho. If you can get the car registered as a '72 with no problems, that's kewl. Where I see a major problem will be trying to sell it...just doesn't seem right to sell it as a '72, since it's obviously not a '72.
I wish there was an easy solution for the problem, but there really isn't....



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