Car fax seldom proves useful unless your van or car was a floor victim or
was totaled at some point.
My van never even showed up in the database because the county she lived in
didn't report or release info to other inquiring sources.
My 92 Crown Vic Ford shows up as never been registered before I registered
it .............
Not strange, it was a DEA persuit vehicle first in Philadelphia then it
moved to Texas where I bought it and registered it for the first time.

Stan Wilder
High Performance Ceramic Coatings
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate Sumbler (ktpupp)" <ktpupp@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: A little more to the story of how we got our Vanagon...

> 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
> >