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Need Help Finding That First Love? Lost Car Registry

We all do it, you know how it goes: "Oh man, I used to have an old Catalina, that was a great car man, I wish I had never sold it." Well, with the onset of baby boomer gentrification, the phenomenon is growing intense, so much so that a way to hunt down your old car has been created. The Lost Car Registry is just what it sounds like - a place to go to try and hunt down that old car you never quite got over selling.

Formatted as a sort of automotive lost and found, the site works by posting both 'lost' and 'found' listings. The people posting a found ad usually are interested in knowing more about the cars past or cussing out the previous owner for crappy wiring. The lost posts are looking to find that one in a million green Tempest with a notch in the steering wheel at 11 o'clock from that time Betsy slipped and her ring nicked it, or whatever. This is a pretty neat idea, and still free to all for the moment. Maybe the Lincoln will go up there as found so maybe we can reunite it with it's original carb. [Lost Car Registry]

10:00 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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A strolling player at 10:05 AM on 02/18/08
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I'll finally be able to find my white '96 Camry!

YES!
GrandmaSideways at 10:10 AM on 02/18/08
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Sweet, actually sort of cool.
5 years online, bet it'll be free for a long time.
Jon at 10:12 AM on 02/18/08
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I was just talking to my dad about this exact topic over the weekend. Seems when he was first married to my mom, they had a Saab 96 with a factory sunroof. He traded it in (probably on that '72 Dodge Dart with the slant six), and has been regretting it ever since.

I told him to get me the license plate and/or VIN, and I'd track it down. Looks like my search just got easier...
MustaineGT at 11:05 AM on 02/18/08
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Man, I sure do miss my Autumn Bronze 99 I30t 5-speed.
stevezilla at 11:33 AM on 02/18/08
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i once had a 1971 Impala with a 400ci short block that preferred to run on 7 cylinders & left puddles of oil everywhere it went, but I'm pretty sure it's been crushed into a cube by now. I'll find the VIN & look it up.
Mike the Dog at 12:37 PM on 02/18/08
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@stevezilla: It's amazing it ran at all with no heads or intake. Why don't you google "short block" and find out what it means, or better yet just look here- [www.powerpro2000.com]
The face you save may be your own.
Novaload at 01:15 PM on 02/18/08
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I think all of mine have had a date with the junkyard and/or crusher by now, alas.
chase42 at 01:24 PM on 02/18/08
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my friend's dad will probably use this to find that 1st-gen M3 that he always regretted selling right before their value went sky high.
Maymar at 02:04 PM on 02/18/08
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If I'm lucky, my first car is still sitting in the pick and pull wrecker I sold it to (albeit almost three years ago). The second was undoubtably cubed, being written off.
Number_Six at 02:35 PM on 02/18/08
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Yup, I need my grey '79 Mustang 2.3 back in a bad way. I think I left a foil-wrapped package under the vinyl passenger seat and a crate of 10W30 in the trunk. And just because I haven't seen bias-ply tires since.
junkman at 09:20 PM on 02/18/08
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I spent every penny I had in June, 1975 to buy my first car; a 1963 Porsche 356B coupe with a rebuilt engine, scab-patched floor pans and a fresh backyard paint job. I couldn't pick it up for a week because my parents wouldn't loan me any money for insurance and gas on such a frivolous purchase. I'd use this website to track it down if I didn't still have it.