Posted on 11/13/2022 6:34:08 PM PST by algore
There is a national database - but only for actual VINs, i.e., post 1980 cars. There’s no standard for chassis numbers before then, no universal format for them and lots of duplication that would make trying to track pre-standardization numbers a nightmare.
1980-on cars have the standardized seventeen character VIN we know today and all of those are in ‘universal’ databases that are easily searched.
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