NICB is the National Insurance Crime Bureau. They retains records for statistical purposes on every vehicle ever produced by the factory. The record includes only the VIN, the dealer destination by dealership code # and the date of shipment from the assembly plant. It is not an all encompassing data base, as there are gaps: if the production records were never furnished to them back in the day by a particular assembly plant, then they dont have the records now.
....And no I don't have access, sorry
They could make a bunch of $$$ if they simply charged people a few bucks each to get the data. Kind of like Pontiac Historical for all makes, but only for the dealer info. I do agree if you have a car from a particularly famous dealership it would be gold mine of info documenting the pedigree of the car. The other use is verifying a VIN on cars with an engine code in the VIN. For example, if someone magically finds another 71 hemicuda convertible and the VIN is hypothetically BS27R1B100001, but the NICB only has a record on a VIN of BS27N1B100001, they just documented a $4,000,000 case of fraud and VIN tampering, a federal offense.
10-22-2005, 04:02 AM
Re: NICB REPORT
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