You could try this

http://www.ploon.nl/contact.php

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Kate Sumbler (ktpupp)
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:34 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
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
>