dwalc0604
Active member
Does anyone know of any way to trace the history of a 1980 Corvette VIN? I was at a car show last month when a guy came up to me and asked when I had changed the front clip of my 1980 Corvette. Seems somewhere down the line someone had changed the front clip to that of one from 1979. I contacted the previous owner and he said he knew nothing about it. From the information he gave me I was able to get the owner's name prior to him from an appraisal that was done in 2002. I could not find any info on that owner but I did contact the appraisal company. They were less than helpful. When I explained what I was trying to do he answered "I didn't change it and I don't know who did". Quite a quick recall since I never gave him a description of the car or the VIN. I called the NYS DMV but they can only provide previous registration info 10 yrs back. I am curious as to why the clip was changed. Funny thing, I was at a car show last week and a guy said he owned a Corvette just like mine several years ago and had hit a deer with it. He said he sold the car to a collision shop. I asked the name of the shop and he said he believed that the car was still in the town where he lived a couple of hundred mile from where I live. He was not willing to check and let me know.