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In article <smiklos-190494234934@smiklos.dialup.access.net> smiklos@panix.com (Steve Miklos) writes:
>In article <haws.766793397@cambridge>, haws@cambridge.mitchell.com (Brent
>Haws) wrote:
>
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>
>Anyone else smell a rat?
>
>Specifically, you can't get a car registered with no VIN. Chop shops would
>love to have a list of valid VINs for specific makes and models. Caveat
>Scriptor.
>

Ummm...I just bought a Blue book to find out how much my car was worth.
It includes the first part of the VIN as the way to figure out which
model you've got. For example, I had a Dodge Shadow. There wasn't a model
type (like America, or whatever). The book had (a guess...I don't have it
in front of me) GCH002 for the America, GCH003 for the Highline. Ours was the
Highline.

I'm sure chop shops would love good VINs, but using
an active one probably would not be a good idea. As you said, you can't 
register the car without one, which to me says the DMV checks for 
duplicates.

>Disclaimer: This could be a perfectly legitimate request, by someone who
>doesn't know how, or won't take the trouble, to ferret out a systemic way
>to get this info. 

My Disclaimer: It's possible I don't know what I'm talking about. :)

(And I saw this in mn.general)
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