Re: Information- 55th Series Caribbean Hardtop

Posted by HH56 On 2016/12/1 10:32:49

As far as tracing the registration thru DMV, unless you have old paperwork listing all the prior owners I think that is an almost impossible task today. Even with names, in California at least the database is strictly off limits now due to the actress that was stalked and killed a few years ago. At the time the assailant was able to trace her car license plate thru DMV so that access was totally cut off to the public. Because of that instance, many other states also changed their laws and will not provide any DMV information to anyone but authorized law enforcement. To add to the problem, DMV databases are scrubbed periodically. Currently in California, if a car has not been registered for 5 years the old information is removed and no longer accessible. If you re-register a car after a period of inactivity all that prior data cannot be tracked and referenced with the current registration so in effect it is a brand new old car with no history.