Keep Everything In GM Documentation Pkg.

[CdnL79 Registry]

Some of you may have been following this thread on fake cowl tags, VINs, etc.
http://216.86.147.147/~stevesno/forums/showthread.php?t=43143
This unscrupulous business continues to evolve and should be of grave concern to all of us in this hobby. One of these days, fake GM Canada documentation might even begin to show up. To ensure the total validity of your documentation, I suggest that ALL the info that GM Canada sends out in the documentation package be kept, even the envelope it came in. For instance, the covering letter signed by George Zapora is just as valuable as the document sheet itself. Don't throw it out. If you haven't saved all this material, get your car documented again. Somewhere in the future it could be worth far more than the $40 cost.
Bob

[69NovaSS]

Some of you may have been following this thread on fake cowl tags, VINs, etc.
http://216.86.147.147/~stevesno/forums/showthread.php?t=43143
This unscrupulous business continues to evolve and should be of grave concern to all of us in this hobby. One of these days, fake GM Canada documentation might even begin to show up. To ensure the total validity of your documentation, I suggest that ALL the info that GM Canada sends out in the documentation package be kept, even the envelope it came in. For instance, the covering letter signed by George Zapora is just as valuable as the document sheet itself. Don't throw it out. If you haven't saved all this material, get your car documented again. Somewhere in the future it could be worth far more than the $40 cost.
Bob

I think this is a great idea. I would even go as far as to suggest that anyone thinking of buying a big money car that they order their own package for the car in question. For few bucks more they will fax you the info and you will have it ASAP. When your looking at 30-40-50-60K+++ cars what is 50-60 bucks more to know if the car is what the owner says it is. The documents are too easy to fake so just to make sure your not buying a pig in a poke I would get your own copy of the GM information packets DIRECTLY FROM GM THEMSELF for any car your thinking of buying. It could save you from buying a well done clone when you thought you were buying the real thing...IMO...its a small price to pay for peace of mind.:)

[68SSGrandpa]

I agree to re-document, for sure the Canadian cars, as there is confirmation access to real doc's, not like some lost files in the USA.
I have owned printing companies for years, and know the print media real well. For less than a few hundred dollars an almost undectectable set of fake documents for a car could be duplicated, right down to the envelope, old deteriated build sheet, etc. Figure if they can forge money, passports, and bonds/certificates, how hard is it to print stationary.
When the value of a clone can fetch 50 large more as a documented car, these guys will figure a way to print plain old stationary.
My clone was previously owned by Wilma Wiggelsworth, and I have her aluminium pertec-a-plate, for her then pride and joy, a 6 cyl std, base Nova. That to me is worth more than finding the sheet behind the back seat.