State of Hobby

[Jeff H]

Look at it this way, if you go to a car show, how many owners cover the VIN of their car at the show? Usually, they also have a form with their name and town written on it. So it's pretty much public knowledge at that point. I can see the argument of people doing a search to find where you live and wait for you to go out and try to steal your car. I'm going to need a decent security setup for my garage when my JL8 is finally finished but I haven't really thought about it yet. I don't know that lists of VIN's needs to be published, but if there is a definite resource to send a request to then that should suffice. I agree with Pete's argument against posting VIN's for car's that are not found for his reason and for the reason that someone may have spent a lot of time and money developing a lead on a car to suddenly have that knowledge given out to everyone for nothing. If Joel Rosen would give out his information to someone like Ed to allow Ed to be the person to check for a possible BM car along with COPO's and Yenkos. $1500 to find out your car isn't a BM car is a lot of money that could be going into restoring a car. One last thing, with the new Privacy act that was passed last year, making private information available could be illegal as well. I work for a mortgage servicing company and we must protect information at all costs now. That could be why GM of Canada can't release info like they used to.