So i found the original Suzuki Servicard" that came with my Samurai when i bought it new in 1987 in Riverside California.  God i miss that car, it was my first car and was kinda forced to sell it....or rather forced to trade it in, in 1994 when i bought my new Tracker in Michigan.
anyway i took excellent care of the Sammy and being a California car it was in amazing shape, but when i went to get my new tracker i was forced by my parents...i was still pretty young then, to "give" my Sammy to the dealer as a trade.
it was worth $3000.  they gave me $300  

so anyway i had my tracker for about a month when i got a letter saying bring it in for an inspection for a possible re-called item.

as they inspected the tracker i strolled around their lot only to come to my old Samurai for sale on thier used lot
selling price?
$3000
BASTARDS!
i was so angry.  well needless to say i NEVER went back to that dealer again.  A year later i was on a date and while i sat at the light i thought i saw my old Samurai.  I said "holy crap"! and turned around immediately.

It WAS my Sammy! sitting in the lot of a beat up old transmission shop in Detroit.  I got out and ran over to it, it broke my heart, the interior was ripped to shreds, the back seat was gone, someone put a big red button in the dash for the horn, it had junky old seat from another car,  my bigger off road tires, and chrome wheels were gone replaced by 4 different stock Suzuki steelies,  the entire car was a total disaster.  and  seeing it like that both made me sad and totally angry.  I was totally ready to go back the next day and demand they sell it back to me.

i never saw it again and last year i was in traffic and a big semi went by and on it's trailer were flatened junked cars, one was a white Samurai...not sure it was MY white Samurai but it made me wonder.  I sure hope one of you guys found it and restored it, it was a good car.  but anyway i found the origianl VIN, is it possible for me to trace where it is now either dead in a junk pile or happily being off roaded by a happy zuki fan?

I'd really like to know the outcome of my first Sammy.

Carfax? Wont it tell you where the last place it was registered was?

Yeah, Carfax might. Some states' DMVs can pull that information, too.

After I sold my Camaro I checked it a few years later via carfax and saw that it was totalled.  So if your Sammy was junked it would probably say.

i belive in cali ud have to have the permision of the owner now...not sure on that one..just got DMV and ask

i belive in cali ud have to have the permision of the owner now...not sure on that one..just got DMV and ask

I'm not sure if they *still* give out that info in OR, but it used to be $5. I found out the hard way.

Due to the blind spot (before I learned)... and I cut over on a car hanging my quarter. About 10 days later, he banged on my door at home.

lol^ and that is the precise reason i think they stopped doing that in cali..people were being fallowed home with info from DMV

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