hwalzer

What's the best way to track the history on a vehicle? Can only go back two previous owners.

jaunty75

There is no single way. There is no real way at all that works consistently. No records are centrally maintained. Your best hope is with those previous owners. If you can contact the earlier one (assuming that person is still alive), maybe you can find out who HE bought it from, contact that person, find out who he bought it from, and keep going until you get to the original owner.

The problem is that these cars are now 40-ish years old, and it's entirely possible that the original owner or one of the subsequent owners is now dead. Then you're trying to find heirs.

Another problem is that, if the car has had numerous owners, the likelihood that you'll end up not being able to contact one of them increases quickly. As soon as that happens, you've pretty much hit brick wall as far as going back any further.

The fact that the car is numbers-matching doesn't mean anything as far as tracing its ownership history.