Should be able to check title history in most if not all states. But with restrictions. See the Driver's Privacy Protection Act.

For our purposes, exception #5 should apply...

AutoCheck "events"....

1FABP26M9FF251153 NC 1996-2000
1FABP26M0FF251154 NC 1991-2007
1FABP26M2FF251155 no records
1FABP26M4FF251156 FL 1993 scrapped
1FABP26M6FF251157 NC 1996
1FABP26M8FF251158 no records
1FABP26MXFF251159 NC 1998-present
1FABP26M6FF251160 NC 1996, VA 1996
1FABP26M8FF251161 NC 1997-2000
1FABP26MXFF251162 no records
1FABP26M1FF251163 NC 1988-present
1FABP26M3FF251164 auction in southeast 1995, SC 1996
1FABP26M5FF251165 no records
1FABP26M7FF251166 no records
1FABP26M9FF251167 NC 1985-1997, SC 2006-2007, MD 2007, VA 2008, MD 2008, MA 2008, PA 2009, MD 2009-2011
1FABP26M0FF251168 VA 1996-2001, NC 2001-present
1FABP26M2FF251169 NC 1998-present
1FABP26M9FF251170 IA 1996-present
1FABP26M0FF251171 NC 2003 scrapped
1FABP26M2FF251172 no records
1FABP26M4FF251173 NC 1988-2004
1FABP26M6FF251174 no records
1FABP26M8FF251175 VA 1995-2011
1FABP26MXFF251176 no records
1FABP26M1FF251177 NC 1985-2004 accident 2004
1FABP26M3FF251178 NC 1996-2000
1FABP26M5FF251179 NC 1990-2010
1FABP26M1FF251180 TN 1989-1994
1FABP26M3FF251181 no records
1FABP26M5FF251182 IA 1994, auction in midwest 1994, IL 1995
1FABP26M7FF251183 auction in southeast 1995
1FABP26M9FF251184 no records
1FABP26M0FF251185 FL 1998-2007
1FABP26M2FF251186 no records
1FABP26M4FF251187 NC 1996, VA 1996-1998, NC 2003-2005
1FABP26M6FF251188 NC 1994-1996
1FABP26M8FF251189 no records

There's a bunch of NC cars throughout that entire batch of VINs. The Nebraska SSPs are most likely in the batch with 208460 then.

According to Autocheck FF208432-FF208479 were shipepd to MO....

1FABP26M7FF208432 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Central Region 1991 (Fleet/Lease), TN 1994
1FABP26M9FF208433 MO 1985 (manufactured), MA 1993 1996 1998
1FABP26M0FF208434 MO 1985 (manufactured), NY 1994 1997 (salvage 1997)
1FABP26M2FF208435 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M4FF208436 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Pacific NW Region 1994, CA 1998, auction Pacific NW Region 1994, CA 1999-2002
1FABP26M6FF208437 MO 1985 (manufactured), NY 1997 1998 2000
1FABP26M8FF208438 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Pacific SW Region 1996, CA 1997-2000
1FABP26MXFF208439 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Eastern Region 1992
1FABP26M6FF208440 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M8FF208441 MO 1985 (manufactured), MA 1993 1997
1FABP26MXFF208442 MO 1985 (manufactured), IN 1996 WI 2005-2007
1FABP26M1FF208443 MO 1985 (manufactured), OH 1996 1998
1FABP26M3FF208444 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M5FF208445 MO 1985 (manufactured), MA 1995-1998
1FABP26M7FF208446 MO 1985 (manufactured), WI 1991 1996-1999
1FABP26M9FF208447 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M0FF208448 MO 1985 (manufactured), VA 1995-1996
1FABP26M2FF208449 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M9FF208450 MO 1985 (manufactured), accident 1991, TX 1992 (rebuilt), 1996 (reconditioned), 1997, 2003 (scrapped)
1FABP26M0FF208451 MO 1985 (manufactured), CA 1996 2000
1FABP26M2FF208452 MO 1985 (manufactured), NJ 1995-2000
1FABP26M4FF208453 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M6FF208454 MO 1985 (manufactured), NM 1997-2002
1FABP26M8FF208455 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26MXFF208456 MO 1985 (manufactured), CA 1998-2004
1FABP26M1FF208457 MO 1985 (manufactured), OR 1993-2011, WA 2011
1FABP26M3FF208458 MO 1985 (manufactured), MO 1995, IL 1998-2007 (junk vehicle 2007)
1FABP26M5FF208459 MO 1985 (manufactured), VA 1995-1998, NC 1999
1FABP26M1FF208460 MO 1985 (manufactured), GA 1996 (bonded title), 1998-1999 (collision 1999)
1FABP26M3FF208461 MO 1985 (manufactured), WI 1991
1FABP26M5FF208462 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M7FF208463 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Central Region 1992
1FABP26M9FF208464 MO 1985 (manufactured), CA 2004
1FABP26M0FF208465 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Southeastern Region 1991, FL 1992 1996 1998-2000, 2002
1FABP26M2FF208466 MO 1985 (manufactured), NY 1993
1FABP26M4FF208467 MO 1985 (manufactured), NC 1992, auction Southeastern Region 1996, NC 1996-1997, SC 1998-2000
1FABP26M6FF208468 MO 1985 (manufactured), AZ 1993
1FABP26M8FF208469 MO 1985 (manufactured), CA 1997-2001 2007-2009
1FABP26M4FF208470 MO 1985 (manufactured), OR 1995-1996 2000-2004
1FABP26M6FF208471 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Eastern Region 1991, FL 1995 2010-present
1FABP26M8FF208472 MO 1985 (manufactured), auction Pacific SW Region 1995 x2, CA 1998 2002
1FABP26MXFF208473 MO 1985 (manufactured), PR 1985 1998 2010
1FABP26M1FF208474 MO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M3FF208475 MO 1985 (manufactured), VA 1995-1996 2000-2006
1FABP26M5FF208476 MO 1985 (manufactured), CA 2001-2002
1FABP26M7FF208477 MO 1985 (manufactured), FL 1996 (collision)
1FABP26M9FF208478 MO 1985 (manufactured), NJ 1996-1998, NY 1998-2000
1FABP26M0FF208479 MO 1985 (manufactured), FL 1987 (collision), 1994, auction Southeastern Region 1995, FL 1995, auction Southeastern Region 1995, FL 1996 (collision) 1997-1998, GA 1998 (collision), FL 1998 (collision) 1999-2001

That's interesting! So the entire batch of V8 coupes (48 cars) went to the same state originally. I wonder if the dealer who won the bid for the 1985 Nebraska SSPs was located in Missouri? Regardless, it might be interesting to pull a Marti Report on one of them to see how it was optioned, but that will have to wait until reports with a higher priority are obtained (and there are a BUNCH of those!).

Nebraska JF248033 came through Dealer 53C026. A lot of the "53" dealer codes are Missouri dealers. So you may be on to something there.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then! :p :D

So now I'm on an AC kick. :D Did some other small '85 batches. The batch with NVHP #130 in it is interesting...

1FABP26M6FF206185 MA (unknown date)(manufactured)
1FABP26M8FF206186 TX 1985 (manufactured), TX 1985 1994 1997-1998
1FABP26MXFF206187 TX 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M1FF206188 -- 1985 (manufactured), NV 1996, 1999-2002
1FABP26M3FF206189 -- 1985 (manufactured), NV 1994 1996
1FABP26MXFF206190 -- 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M1FF206191 CO 1985 (manufactured), CO 1994-1995, 1998-2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2010
1FABP26M3FF206192 CO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M5FF206193 CO 1985 (manufactured), CO 1991
1FABP26M7FF206194 CO 1985 (manufactured), CO 1994-1995
1FABP26M9FF206195 CO 1985 (manufactured), CO 1994-1996 2004
1FABP26M0FF206196 CO 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M2FF206197 CO 1985 (manufactured), accident 1991, CO 1995, AZ 2009

Nice job! That's quite a coincidence since the NHP only ordered 3 SSPs that year. So 206190 must be the car that was totalled the day it was put into service.

I love doing this stuff! :D

1986 RCMPs...

1FABP26M3GF208249 BC (manufactured), BC 1991 (scrapped - last seen at recycling facility), BC 1997 (Canadian renewal, salvage)
1FABP26MXGF208250 BC (manufactured)
1FABP26M1GF208251 BC (manufactured), BC 1997 (Canadian renewal, salvage)
1FABP26M3GF208252 BC (manufactured)
1FABP26M5GF208253 BC (manufactured), BC 2004 (Canadian renewal, scrapped/destroyed), BC 2007 (Canadian renewal, scrapped/destroyed)
1FABP26M7GF208254 BC (manufactured), BC 2007 (Canadian renewal, scrapped/destroyed)

Wow! Four out of six of those Canadian cars are now salvage/scrapped. I guess they were used pretty hard.

A member here, I forget the name, has the other two. He started a resto on one of them a little while ago.

Batch of two '84s, one of which has a door tag and buck tag in the VIN Project (unknown agency), both have CA smog histories. Here are their AC reports...

1FABP26M2EF213715 CA 1984 (manufactured), CA 2000-2005, AL 2008-present
1FABP26M4EF213716 CA 1984 (manufactured)

Here's the thread about the member's 1986 RCMP Mustang(s) -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...highlight=RCMP


:)

Batch of four '87s, one of which was a "Massachusetts Strike Force" car and in the VIN Project, is interesting. Seems ALL FOUR cars are still alive...

1FABP40E2HF202540 unknown state 1987 (manufactured), MA 1997-2011
1FABP40E4HF202541 unknown state 1987 (manufactured), MA 1997-2001
1FABP40E6HF202542 NJ 1987 (manufactured), unknown state 1992 (accident or damage reported [non-collision]), NJ 1995, NY 1999-present
1FABP40E8HF202543 [no manufactured or ship-to record], unknown state 1991 (accident or damage reported [non-collision]), NY 1991 (salvage), PR 1993-present

Batch of ten '88s, one of which has a "New Mexico" unit in the VIN Project, is interesting. First two appear to have gone to Texas, third one unknown, next four to New Mexico, and last three to Ontario Canada....

1FABP40EXJF220242 unknown state 1988 (manufactured), TX 1990-1997, Southwest region auction 1998, OK 1999-2004
1FABP40E1JF220243 unknown state 1988 (manufactured), TX 1991-2002
1FABP40E3JF220244 unknown state 1988 (manufactured), IL 1994 (junk/rebuilt)
1FABP40E5JF220245 NM 1998 (manufactured), CO 1994-1995, WA 1997-2009, OR 2011-present
1FABP40E7JF220246 NM 1998 (manufactured), NM 1996-1997
1FABP40E9JF220247 NM 1998 (manufactured), NM 1996-2000
1FABP40E0JF220248 NM 1998 (manufactured), NM 1995-2001
1FABP40E2JF220249 Ontario 1998 (manufactured), Ontario 1988, New Foundland 1998
1FABP40E9JF220250 Ontario 1998 (manufactured), New Foundland 1997, Ontario 2001, Alberta 2006-2011
1FABP40E0JF220251 Ontario 1998 (manufactured), Ontario 1995, MN 1998-1999, WI 1999-2000

The "unknown agency" car at the end of the 1988 Alabama DPS batch went to SC, and appears to still be alive today.

1FABP40E7JF261766 SC 1988 (manufactured), SC 1996-1999, Southeast auction 1999, SC 2000-present

Batch of three with the Oscala FL PD unit as the first one has the second one as possibly another Oscala unit, and the third in the batch appears to have gone to a local goverment in Louisiana.

1FABP40E8KF213579 FL 04/1989 (manufactured), FL 05/1989 (rear impact), FL 11/1989 (front impact), FL 1998-present (police use branding on title)
1FABP40E4KF213580 FL 1989 (manufactured), Oscala FL 1989 (police use), FL 1991 (front impact), OH 1997, IN 1997, FL 1998-2001
1FABP40E6KF213581 unknown state 1989 (manufactured), LA 1989 (local gov't), AR 1996-present

Mick,

Oscala is probably a typo for Ocala.

Can you run the 85 Colorado cars up when you get a sec?
1FABP26MXFF235057 is the last of the run. I found the auction listing for 235053 in there as well.

Here ya go Mike:

1FABP26M7FF235050 unknown state 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M9FF235051 unknown state 1985 (manufactured), WI 1993-2007
1FABP26M0FF235052 unknown state 1985 (manufactured), CO 1994-1995, Mountain region auction 1997 (fleet/leased), CO 1995, NM 1996-1998
1FABP26M2FF235053 unknown state 1985 (manufactured), CO 1995
1FABP26M4FF235054 unknown state 1985 (manufactured), CO 1994-2002, NM 2005
1FABP26M6FF235055 unknown state 1985 (manufactured)
1FABP26M8FF235056 unknown state 1985 (manufactured), CO 1995-1997, MI 1998, NV 1998-2010 ("junk vehicle" title 2010)
1FABP26MXFF235057 unknown state 1985 (manufactured), CO 1995-2005

Mike, you've been holding out on me! ;) Can you attach or email me the information on those cars for the Project?

I will when I get to a real computer.

Secret Inside Information!
 

Not really, but y'all may find it somewhat interesting. At the bottom of the VIN listings for each year, I recently added a number in the lower left corner of each page. That number is the total SSPs documented for that particular year. The number will increase as future links are activated, which will make it easier to keep track of the total number of cars in our VIN Project. As of today, the numbers break down as follows:

1982. . .94
1983. . .31
1984. . .80
1985. . 237
1986. . 172
1987. . 379
1988. . 236
1989. . 352
1990. . 185
1991. . 158
1992. . 200
1993. . 423
------------
TOTAL 2,547 SSPs

:)

Marti Reports
 

I had a PM exchange with a member today about the Marti Reports. I commented that there are 30 VINs (CHP, FHP, AzDPS, and NYSP) on my immediate list to be pulled by the end of January as funds allow. There are another 15 or so VINs (many different agencies) that are on my "want" list. Then there are another 27 VINs for suspected Texas DPS cars (which I may not need to pull if some documentation comes in). At a cost of $15 per report, the total gets rather expensive. He recommended that I consider posting up a Paypal link in case any of you want to contribute financially.

I'm not well acquainted with how Paypal works in terms of establishing a pay button/link, but if anyone wants to contribute to our VIN Project, my Paypal account is mm750 [at] comcast [dot] net (use the actual symbols and remove the spaces). I will gladly acknowledge in this thread everyone who contributes (unless they want to keep their name out of it). There's no obligation here - we're all friends so any amount is welcome. It's a bit awkward for me to even post this up, but this is something we can do for the benefit of the hobby.

Looking more closely at this picture, it seems that the belt line is black... That wouldn't be for a '93 car, would it? It would be body color. I'm working on my car again. I should scrap a little spot on the belt line and see what color is underneath the Reef Blue.

Toshi, the CHP would have repainted the car either way, so they could have left the beltline black. Let us know what you find on your car's beltline.



I would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to MikeP (aka MOstang) for sending in some scratch via Paypal (see post #345) so I could run another series of Marti Reports. With Mike's help, we ordered four reports on the following 1984 CHP Mustangs:

203911
204040
and
205174
205285


These four reports confirm a known range of VINs for two batches of 1984 CHP Mustangs that all have the same DSO number. Using these four reports and the State of California smog website, we were able to confirm 75 more CHP Mustangs for 1984. Thanks Mike!

Using 4 more Marti Reports and confirmed ranges of SSPs, we just added 31 CHP Mustangs from 1991, and 52 from 1992. That leaves 101 more 1992 pages to be created and added over the weekend, and then the CHPs will be done (in terms of using the California smog website to verify SSPs). Once those are added, we will have over 2,800 SSPs in our project.

:)

Pictures were provided recently of auction paperwork from 1993 and 1997 for various Texas DPS cars. The individual who posted the pictures agreed to allow our use of these photos for the VIN Project, and we were able to document 37 more Texas DPS Mustangs! :) Here is an example:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info166864.htm


Similar documentation was provided for a 38th SSP which was already included in our project:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info139187.htm


I do not recall the source of the pictures from this SSP, but it obviously is a known car that either belongs to a member or was listed for sale. I hope it belongs to a member, who will benefit from now having the auction paperwork for his SSP.

I have M3-262 (PF139187) as being listed on ebay in July 2012 in Amarillo, TX. Don't know if that was a member here selling it, or if a member here bought it.

Those auction lists have provided four more previously unknown batches of VINs for me to check at the TX DMV site. :)

Mick, thanks for the info on that 1993 SSP. Your record keeping efforts have come in handy on many occassions.

The other benefit of this auction paperwork is it verified that Texas DPS was the agency on two other SSPs which were confirmed with Marti Reports, but they lacked sufficient proof about where the cars served originally. Cool stuff!

the color is actually a 1992 color and it maybe possible that they painted the weather strip because the chp didnt use just one company for resprays

Thanks go out to ChrisL, who sent in pictures for another 1986 Texas DPS Mustang, which is the 2nd SSP found in this batch of 24 consecutive cars:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info231709.htm


:2thumbs:

Bill - Glad that I'm able to help...this is a great project!

More Texas DPS Auction Info!
 

A huge THANK YOU goes out to Tom M. aka "1989 Tx DPS SSP" for sending in his collection of auction paperwork on a large number of Texas DPS Mustangs (plus other makes too). There are over 300 Mustangs listed in the many pages of information. It will take some time to go through and create the new webpages for each SSP, however there are several SSPs already listed in our project that are also included in the auction paperwork from Tom. These SSPs were either: owned/found by members; ones where we ordered Marti Reports; or ones where we pulled Texas DMV info. Below is a list of those cars:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info204955.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info276410.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info276411.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149436.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149437.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149442.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149443.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149444.htm


VERY cool stuff. Thanks again, Tom! :)

In the three consecutive groups with TXDPS in '86 (GF229980-230018, GF231677-231686, and GF231700-231723) it looks like the first two batches (DSO 57-0114 and DSO 57-0112) might have all had manual transmissions and the last batch (DSO 57-0116) might have all had automatic transmissions.

As part of Tom's auction information, we found a lone 1985 Mustang that is part of a 10-car consecutive unit number block of VINs:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info188603.htm


Note that this car's listed unit number is #F5-231, not #M5-231 (interesting!). All but one of these ten Mustangs show Texas DMV records, so we may be able to verify all ten cars as SSPs by pulling Marti Reports on the first and last ones of the batch. :)


That's pretty cool info! :D

In the 1988 auction list, in the middle of the second column is a 1988 Mustang (lot #38)....1FABP40E6JF267509. That is a single VIN, i.e. not in a batch of 2 or more consecutive P40E VINs. :D

Looks like unit numbers started with "F" through '85 and "M" from '86 through '93. I have EF184685 as unit #F4-413 but I don't know where I got that from.

Not sure about '83....haven't seen any unit numbers for any of them yet.

That '85 unit number also looks to be the EFI/AOD combo, per the "AT" indication in the auction lot number info. Being that the CUN is so high, it is the 180 HP version (headers and dual muffler & tailpipes).

Some of the "F" cars are Vics and trucks. I have seen a "C" used in the unit numbers for the Chevy Caprice and Camaro models. A "P" was used on a Plymouth van, and a "D" was used for Dodges.