Carfax info about salvaged or junked vehicle is a little hinky.  For
instance... if the vehicle is bought in California as junked, but has not
been registered as such by the owner, that vehicle could be registered on a
clean title in Nevada and Carfax would not have a record of the vehicle
being junked.  Of course, if the vehicle is ever re-registered in California
it would be issued a salvage title which would then show up on Carfax.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Ben T
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 2:19 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Converting a salvage title in CA

In a message dated 3/10/03 8:35:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
JordanVw@AOL.COM
writes:

<< thats what i mean, there are title companies to help those who have
purchased
 vehicles w/o a title , legally.  there is a company in nevada who will get
 you a good title for $200 no inspection, no pics, all you need is the vin.
>>

They also have shell corporations in Nevada which people set-up to hide
illegal gains. Just search under "bearer bonds". They don't cross report to
the IRS.

Fortunately for us car folks, databases like Carfax can and do
cross-reference salvage titles with VIN's. Nice clean bogusly obtained
Nevada
title with a tag in Carfax saying it's salvage. What did you gain?

Maybe the ability to defraud those who have never heard of things like
Carfax.

BenT Fax