[njsteve]

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VINs were sequentially assigned, monitored at the car plants by the FBI.

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You're kidding right? The FBI has never been involved with "monitoring" VINs at assembly plants.

You may be confusing them with the NICB. The National Insurance Crime Bureau would be the recipient of VIN lists at the end of the model year for statistical purposes but neither the NICB nor any law enforcement agency was ever involved at any level of an assembly plant with VIN monitoring.