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Danno

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  1. I like that a lot!
  2. Very nice!
  3. Nice!
  4. Danno

    64 GTO

    Very nice!
  5. Very nice build. Bitchin' backstory.
  6. Nice.
  7. Superb builds.
  8. Beautifully done.
  9. More beautiful builds. Love the Mercedes DTM.
  10. Beautiful builds.
  11. Great job on making many little hinges into one. I wouldn't have believed it, Chris!
  12. Very nice.
  13. I feel for you guys. I DO NOT miss it! It took me three years of living here in Phoenix before my bone marrow thawed out. Good luck.
  14. Replying to Chris (don't know your full name) "hpiguy": Sorry you've had such bad experience with CarFax. And, yes, we can agree to disagree, but you made some pretty absolute pronouncements. You may find three examples or even "a plethora" of examples that support your posture, but they don't "prove" your point. There's also a wealth of day-in and day-out history of performance that doesn't make the investigative reporters' desks, thus you'll never 'google' the vast majority of the CarFax experiences. I work with CarFax reports frequently and find their typical product to be far more accurate than not. However, you also touched upon an important point, whether you meant to or not. Garbage in, garbage out is true of ANY database. If info is not reported, it can't be retrieved. Is CarFax failsafe? No. No database is, not even Google. You also made the blanket statement that anyone can get a title history through the state without issue. And without paying CarFax. However, let's be real, here. In the first place, most states take weeks to return title history results, not instantly like CarFax (and its competitors). Secondly, each state will return only THEIR OWN history, nothing of a vehicle's history that occurred beyond their jurisdiction. Thus, any vehicle that has moved around from one state to another ~ or more ~ will require a separate title history in each state. More on that in a moment. And, every state charges for title searches. Charges vary from state to state, but they usually cost more ~ per state ~ than a single CarFax report which will return the entire history. What this means in the real world is a complete overview of a vehicle's history might require running consecutive searches in multiple states, especially when dealing with collectible vehicles. In practice (absent CarFax), one must first request a title history from the vehicle's current state. It may take 2 to 6 weeks, or more, depending on the state. Once received, if review shows the vehicle came to state A from another state, the history will identify the prior state (we'll call it state B ). Then one must request a title history from state B. Again the wait. Again once received it may turn out the vehicle came to state B from state C. One did not know about state C until state B disclosed it as the prior title state, which state A didn't even know (or care) about. This chain can continue through several states, each requiring its own search, its own fees, and taking as much time as it deems to take. This is how it always worked prior to CarFax. Now you can just run a CarFax search which will disclose all the title numbers and the respective title-issuing states in an instant. If you need the detailed history from manufacture-to-current owner (as we do when investigating vehicle theft, title-washing, smuggling, cloning, interstate trafficking, loan fraud, asset laundering, etc.), then one can at least order the histories from all the involved states at once, instead of having to wait for the domino effect to play out over weeks or months.
  15. Wow. Eight Seven years later this floats to the top again. And still a nice looking build.
  16. Good job. And I love the color! I had a 1:1 '74 Charger in approximately that color . . . it was beautiful . . . and you didn't "meet yourself" several times a day like the Chargers with more mainstream ~ or common ~ colors.
  17. Nice.
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