Stolen cars, was: <VV> Re: secret serial number - others ?

[airvair]

Back in '81 my '79 Suburban was stolen, VIN #CCS269F178946, and was
driven to southern California. It was a 3/4 ton 454 in light tan with a
woodgrain "Estate" trim, luggage rack, and buckets. Even the title was
stolen from my house!

I had converted the exhaust to a true dual system by removing the
catalytic muffler and replacing the asymmetrical crossmember with an
earlier design symmetrical one, so if anyone had tried to put a cat back
on it, they'd have trouble. LOL

Hope the SOB that ended up with it had grief because of that
crossmember. 'Specially in SoCal. (G)

Unfortunately, services like Carfax won't recognize anything but the
now-standard 17 digit serial numbers.

-Mark

> 
> back in the late 1980s my brother was visited by the State Police after tracing a car to him that he bought in 1979... it was a 1955 Chevy Bel Air with almost every option available, including a/c... he got it from the son of the County Judge Executive, who'd bought it from someone else... my brother put leather interior and a $2000 paint job (1980 dollars) on it before selling it a few years later... the car had been stolen in 1958, in this state, and was sold here and there until the guy my brother sold it to in '83 decided to sell it out of state in '89... the numbers on the title did NOT match the numbers on the car... it was off by one digit.
>   No charges were filed.... but from what I understand he did flush a lot of marijuana down the toilet when they came knocking on his door...
>   :-)
>   He's since grown out of it...
>   Later,
>   Lonzo
>