Anyone with a Carfax account do me a small favor?

"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
11/13/2014 at 10:23 • Filed to: None

My '82 Alfa GTV6 is being considered for use in a Richard Linklater film, but they'd like the history. I think they want to make sure the car has actual Texan roots. Anyway, if someone has an account and could run a VIN report for me I'd appreciate it! Hopefully it'll show the original purchase date and location.

DISCUSSION (7)

ACESandEIGHTS > Chairman Kaga
11/13/2014 at 10:32

I think they want to make sure the car has actual Texan roots.

Leave it to Richard Linklater or Wes Anderson to utter the most hipster thing ever heard, "someone run a check on that car to make sure it's authentically Texan."

That will be a cool claim to fame. You'll never be able to retire that car afterward.

Chairman Kaga > ACESandEIGHTS
11/13/2014 at 10:46

Or sell it with the credentials that it appeared in the sequel to Dazed & Confused.

Oh, and probably less hipster, more autistic. Linklater is as about as unpretentious as they come, at least in Hollywood circles. Dude goes to PTA meetings.

ACESandEIGHTS > Chairman Kaga
11/13/2014 at 10:58

This kinda makes me kinda sad. Why are only sequels and remakes getting made these days? So many good pictures have had their legacy tarnished by cha-ching-pay-me followups. You would think auteurs would be immune to this.

Chairman Kaga > ACESandEIGHTS
11/13/2014 at 11:00

I'm hopeful. I don't know if it's so much a sequel as it is a film set in the same world. I trust Linklater. I mean, the entire "Before..." series is fantastic. He's qualified to make a solid sequel.

ACESandEIGHTS > Chairman Kaga
11/13/2014 at 11:13

True, true. I sorta wondered about him in the "rotoscopic" phase, but yeah he's legit.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Chairman Kaga
11/13/2014 at 11:22

Haha this is the most kickass thing I've heard recently. Can't help you on the CarFax front, unfortunately, but good luck!

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Chairman Kaga
11/13/2014 at 11:42

Cool, another Texan! Checking in from Houston here.