Hi i have a delta88 -68 and i would like to have some history about it when it was used in california, now in sweden. The vin is 364878C107333. I have tried to search the web for history but every site says the vin dont exist. Thanks!

 

Welcome aboard. I don't know any "history" you will find on this car. Unless it was meant for export to Canada.

The VIN decodes as this


The Postwar Oldsmobile VIN Decoder 1946-1997

364878C107333

Year:1968
Division:Oldsmobile
Series:Delta Eighty-Eight
Body:2dr Holiday Hardtop
Plant:Southgate, California
Serial Number:107333

http://www.v8cars.hu/oldsvin/decode.php

 

What you're talking about here is ownership history. You would like to know how many owners it has had and when they owned it, perhaps who those people were, and that sort of thing. No database like this exists. Even if it did, privacy laws would likely prevent any of it from being released to someone other than a law-enforcement agency or something similar.

One piece of information you would think you could get would be where the car was originally sold new and through what dealer. Unfortunately, Oldsmobile did not keep these records until the 1977 model year, so Oldsmobile can't tell you this for any car from 1976 or earlier.

If you can find the build sheet for your car, it would have on it the code number of the dealer to which the car was delivered, and it's possible to find out which dealer this was.

Getting back to ownership history, the only way typically to obtain ownership history of an old car is to get it directly from prior owners, if they can be found and contacted. Your first source is to get what information you can from the person you bought the car from. They should know who they bought it from, where, and when. It might be possible to find that person and contact them, if the transaction wasn't so long ago that they might be dead now. Etc, etc., going further back in time each time. The more individual owners a car has had, the more difficult this is.

 

That's because sites like CarFax are only designed to accept the 17-character VINs that were first used in the 1981 model year. These sites cannot accept the older 13-character VINs. More to the point, the information you seek is highly unlikely to be available. Keep in mind that you are talking a car that long pre-dates the internet and the PC. These records were kept on PAPER () and were only held at the local or state DMV offices. There is no reason to spend the money to store these documents, much less computerize them. Usually the paper was destroyed after a certain number of years. You would have to be EXTREMELY lucky to find this information. Yes, there will be stories of people who found documents in the back of a DMV file cabinet, but these are very rare exceptions. My advice is to not sweat this history and simply enjoy the car.

 

Ok and thanks alot for the answer, marco.