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Old 10-06-2005, 11:07 PM   #53 (permalink)
marcw
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Originally Posted by MikeGalos
And, of course, valid VINs are hardly a secret since anyone knowing the publicly available coding for the checkdigit can create a valid VIN for any of the 9999 possible Elise VINs per year seeing how the Year, Serial Number and Checkdigit are the only values that aren't constant.
To give you an even better idea of how VINs are hardly a secret, you can find any VIN in California from the license plate and vice-versa for any car that has had a smog check No Elises are on this database...at least not yet, but its only a matter of time:

http://smogcheck.ca.gov/vehtests/pubtstqry.aspx
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