I am considering purchasing a 63 from a private party in South Carolina. The car was brought from Canada about three years ago. It has a Canadian Vin tag rather than a US tag on the car next to the trim tag. Car is now registered with plates and a Vin number assigned by South Carolina. I live in Ohio. I don't have any experience with bring cars from Canada. Anything I should be concerned about?
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There was no difference between a Canadian VIN tag and US VIN tag at time of manufacture. Can you post a picture? -
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I second that there is no such thing as a Canadian vin tag. TomComment
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Unfortunately I don't have a picture but I saw the tag. It has a Canadian symbol on it - car came from Montreal - would that make a difference. I also saw the owners title from South Carolina - appears to be appropriate. But the Vin number is an odd number - 7700401287011257. Was told by owner that it was assigned by South Carolina when the car was brought here. Any futher thoughts.Comment
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I guess the question is: What happened to the original VIN plate?Comment
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State issued VIN tags are usually an indicaton of a recovered theft or other similar problem. I'd take a pass.Bill Clupper #618Comment
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That's the case with '65 # 04835
My first car (in Montreal); sold new by a large local dealer; stolen, insusrance paid out; recovered 2 monthss later; bid and won it back from insurance. Now it had no VIN tag (the one the robbers installed was removed for evidence). Province of Quebec assigned a non-Corvette identiy # for the new VIN; I protested and they allowed me to revert to original designation, albeit stamped on the Quebec tag. Heck, the authorized issuing locksmith was too busy to install, so he let me do the job at the curb outside his shop. As I recall, the tag was almost the same dimensions as factory.
So all subsequent paperwork (ownership, insurance tags, etc) appeared correctly for a car with unblemished history, but under the glove box a nowdays Corvette enthusiast would know immediately.
Defn. "Canadian" -- an unarmed American with health insurance.Comment
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what is the difference if you are happy with
the car and it is legal ? does everyone that buy a used corvette have illusions of scottsdale in their mind?Comment
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Is this the white/black factory a/c conv in Columbia SC? If so, e-mail me and I will send a pic of the vin tag he sent me on Nov 17.Comment
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No - its a red/red 63 split windowComment
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Re: what is the difference if you are happy with
Thanks to all you've been very helpfulComment
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I'd be more concerned about things like this
The rust is more important to worry about than a legal VIN that is issued by a government agency.
If a state-issued or a province-issued VIN plate is there, then you can figure the legal issues are null. How many stolen cars have been found years later from unaware owners? I bet they all had Chevy VINs on them.
Unless they have closed some of the loopholes, it was real easy 20 years ago to get paper on a car you didn't own, steal it, and then it was yours in some states. A government VIN implies that has all been corrrected.
I'd run the usual check on the VIN with the police to see if it is stolen but beyond that, I wouldn't worry.
Bird cage rust
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If it were me I would definately pass on the car. Even if you are going to keep it for life ,or plan on it someone after you is going to sell it.It is going to be a pain to deal with.There are so many fraudulent car's out there now that are hard to spot a good one. Why put yourself or someone else in the spot of trying to sell this one.This may not be one, but what if?You already know going into it there is a problem.The big auction houses are just fueling this problem.Someone is going to crack down hard one of these day's. JMHO. TomComment
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Re: what is the difference if you are happy with
Yeh Rick
I've seen those corvette's sent to the Province of Quebec in which you are talking about and they do have a trim tag like all the others, but if I remember they state "PROVINCE OF QUEBEC" on them also. All other corvette's sent to CANADA, the VIN & TRIM TAGS are the same. The only difference is on the later cars they would have a round 1" dia. sticker on the driver's door in the area around where the VIN DECAL is, with a number like "985 TRANSPORT CANADA". Also the radiator decal on the fan swoud is the same except at the bottom of the decal it reads "GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA LTD.
WILLIAM ST. E - OSHAWA, ONTARIO - SELLER
Hope this helps. Ken.Comment
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Re: I'd be more concerned about things like this
I don't understand the logic that this is more of a problem than one with a factory VIN plate.
A factory VIN plate, you don't know if it is stolen or not. You assume it is correct because you got it and it had paperwork with it.
When you get a state-issued or province-issued VIN, you know they have cleared it all before it was release. There are no issues, or they would have impounded it and you or anyone else would not be getting that car. A friend's dad did that for the Cleveland police department.
Hot cars were immediately seized. Impounded. That was the end. They were now evidence and retained as such until the guilty party was found and convicted. Even then, they were often kept like any other evidence in case of issues with the case.
Now it is an issue with many individuals, because they can't run the birthday calculator and they can't figure what the car was and it sticks out like a sore thumb, but the reality is that it is a clean car title wise. But even NCRS allows them for judging, so it doesn't make a car worthless.Comment
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