Contacting Car's Original Owner

[BCreekDave]

Originally Posted by flyingn

I have never met a previous owner who was not thrilled to hear about their old car. Make that call! Im sure you will find the same thing

I too encourage the OP to make contact, but it isn't always a positive experience.

I am the 4th owner of my car and reached out to the second and original owners and while the original owner was great, I was threatened with serious bodily harm from the second owner. Come to find out from the third owner that the guy was fairly well known in the area of being aligned with the mob and his son had just the year before committed suicide after the police were closing in for the disappearance of his son's wife, who they still have never found. Not everybody shares the love of an old musclecar!

I went so far as to postal mail letters explaining my search and included a pre-addressed and stamped envelope that if they did not want to be contacted, to just put the envelope in the mail and I would then know that they do not want to be contacted further. I did not receive the letter back so after some time I called #2 and that's when I was threatened.