Stalk your old car like your old girlfriend with Check My Ride

[Bru]

Post up if you have any luck finding your old rides. When I get home I'm going to dig up the VIN from my first car (1990 Caprice squad car).

http://www.checkmyride.com/

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/24/stalk-your-old-car-like-your-old-girlfriend-with-check-my-ride/

I found it. After more than four years and 3,000 miles, my 1976 BMW 2002 is currently residing in Newberry, Florida, just east west of Gainesville. How did I track it down? A new website that allows you to plug in your long lost love's VIN (that's Vehicle Identification Number for those acronym averse) and spits out its last registered location.

Check My Ride from AutoCheck is a social network for cars, allowing you to build a profile, add vehicles, find your old hoopties and connect with their current owners. You can also import some of the data into Facebook and get a free history report on your current car.

Admittedly, AutoCheck is a big buggy at the moment (it took several tries to get the info on some of our past rides), but we're currently scouring our file cabinets for old maintenance folders and I'm trying to track down the VIN for my very first car, a (God help me) 1991 Plymouth Horizon. After that, I've gotta find the 1984 Supra, the 1970 510, the 1972 2002, the E36 318i...

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[Bob Kazamakis]

Unfortunately I know where all my old rides are. 2 are long gone; totaled and the other is being driven into the ground by a friend.

But this is pretty awesome.

 

[machausta]

Last sighting: Willowbrook, IL for my old Thunderbird Turbo Coupe...

(That was probably on a flatbed, minus the front clip embedded into a station wagon)

 

[Mr Baytchos]

So I'm not sure if I'm doing it right but all I can find are the cars last sightings

My 2004 Frontier was last seen in Decatur, MS
My 2006 VW GTI was last seen in Milwaukee, WI


I was hoping to actually see them or get more info but maybe those people would have to be on the site

 

[utryd2]

Last sighting: Willowbrook, IL for my old Thunderbird Turbo Coupe...

(That was probably on a flatbed, minus the front clip embedded into a station wagon)

What year turbo coupe? I had an 88, what a fun car!

This is cool, I'm gonna look up a few of my fav vehicles.

 

[machausta]

I had 3... two 87s and an 88, but it was the 88 that was killed at higgins and busse in 1998.

 

[PANDA]

My red TA is in Byron, IL, My green GTP is in Fenton, MI.

I will have to dig up the VIN from my other previous cars.

 

[Lead Pipe]

Last sighting was bellwood. I would love to get my old GTA back and do an LS swap.

 

[Bru]

Yeah that's what I would do with my Caprice if I could get it back too. LS1 and T56.

 

[Primalzer]

3 of them I've never seen again after I handed the title over, the thunderbird I saw for a couple years, and I haven't seen it in probably 5 years.

 

[Theautoguy]

I have at least a dozen VIN's I'll try this weekend.

 

[Euro]

I don't think I have any paper with the Lumina's VIN on it anymore. I used to know it off the top of my head, but that's failed too.

Damnit, I'll have to find some VIN to look up

 

[blkgp2000]

Both my '97 Ram and '00 GP are in Chicago

Seems like they both came from the middle of lake michigan according to their map

 

[Euro]

Found a folder of all my dad's old car receipts. Should be interesting!

 

[smug]

I wonder if it will show if the car has or is in a salvage yard or just the last owner of the car.

 

[SMRTSS1]

My Escalade was last seen being driven by a little Messican woman and is now sporting the latest in "go fast" double-sided tape goodies from Pep Boys. I don't care and I don't want to know. The only one I would've given a shit about was my 90 Mustang GT that I saw on the back of a flatbed with the front end pushed 3 feet to one side about 3 months after I traded it in.

 

[IDAFC21]

2 of my previous cars I highly doubt i'll find on there, nor would I care to, and my wrx i still see driving around here, so i know where thats at. sounds like a cool site tho

 

[Shocker]

My old S10 Blazer I saw driving around town for about 4 years... don't see it no more

 

[Bru]

Looks like my Caprice was last seen in Berwyn.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Looks like my Caprice was last seen in Berwyn.

 

[KnightFan26917]

Yikes...lol.


I'm going to have to dig up the VINs of at least one of my former cars ... and check this out. If Dad/Mom still have the VINs of one of their former vehicles, I might do the same with them....



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[bdyman]

wow lol , we dont have that kinda shit around in berwyn or cicero, what we have are suv`s pick up trucks, with "durango" and "zacatakes" stickers on them and lovely stick on chrome accents and big ole wheels on the biggest pos but those wheels are blingin`

i only know of one dude a few blocks away from me has a real nice mustang and my ss of course lol everything else is pimped out by pepboys