History search for a 1970 Challenger in Vancouver, British Columbia

[plummagnum]

I purchased my 1970 Challenger convertible last year from a party in Vancouver,BC. Is there a way to trace the history (i.e. title search) of a car that spent most of its life in Vancouver?  The previous owner had no information.  If the car was shipped and sold new to Canada, would there be a record of it?  How would I go about finding that information?  Does anyone have any information for searching?  I believe my car was built in Hamtramck, MI.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

-John

[Alaskan_TA]

What is the VIN? I can check my files and see if I have anything on it for you.

T/Ake care,
Barry

[camjam]

In Canada you have to get a lawyer to do the type of search you want. Our privacy laws are quite strict. What I find is that the provinces switched to computers from a manual system in the early 80's they won't go back past that point. So you are pretty much hooped to go back to the 70"s.

I was able to get mine back to 1984.

If you send me vin number in a private email I will see what I can get off of our government onsurance site for history.

[71chally383R/T]

i know of a plum crazy 71 challenger convertible here in North Vancouver,B.C.(383 4-spd shaker car) sitting long time, but no knowledge of a 70 car ,try go 2 the dmv and search up the past owners of a plum crazy 70 chally vert in vancity , i doubt there will be any, your car probably came from the states,funny that brings a story of a yellow 69 cuda S vert w/ recall kelsey hayes wheels that came out of north vancouver,my family has lived here 4ever and no one knew of this car till it was featured in high perf mopar

[camjam]

Plum I did some checking. Here is what I have gotten.

In British Columbia (BC) the insurance website is www.icbc.com. They have metioned another service that does a Canada wide search. I emailed them to see what I could get on a car's history and this is what they had to say.

Mal;

If the vehicle has been registered (or had its registration renewed) in the
last five years, we will be able to provide the same current information as
we could for any late model car.

Historical records will be sparse, as no one was digitizing and selling this
information until the mid 90's.  Many jurisdictions did not make this
information available until the late 90's.  We will not get US history or
import information on this vehicle.

In conclusion, we will not be able to prepare a "pedigree" for the vehicle,
but we can let you know if there is a lien registered against it right now.

Regards,

Wally Bedford, MCSE
Carproof
130 Dufferin Ave, Suite 204
London, Ontario
N6A 5R2

I was thnking I might use them to try a search on my car but it doesn't look too promising. From what he has indicated if the car hasn't been registered in the last 5 years they won't be able to help. By the way both sites have a charge for their service.

From what I have gathered you do not get much help doing the owner search. It would be better to try and get what info you can through a lawyer. The charge as I recall will be about the same.

Mal