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Subject:Re: A little more to the story of how we got our Vanagon...
From:Kate Sumbler (ktpupp)
Date:Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:33:44 -0400

I just got a free carfax report from a friend...   Ran the VIN on my
van and it has the first record of the VIN in 2001.  I wonder if that
means it wasn't in the US prior to that date?

-=kt=-

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:35:12 -0700, JD Foster <jidd@jiddware.com> wrote:
> > Part of us wonders if the van was originally sold in Germany?!?!  Any
> > idea how we would find out this kind of info??  Would a CarFax search
> > on the VIN tell us more?  I've thought about shelling out the $15 or
> > so to run the VIN, but wasn't sure what that would tell us...
>
> My '86 westy was originally bought in Germany.  The CarFax simply doesn't
> have any  record of the van before '88 when the PO brought it into the
> states (w/ 40k miles on it).
>
> Cheers,
> JD
>

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