Re: Birth Certificates for old BMWs

[Carl Scholz <scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's the deal.  You can get the basic information from BMW Mobile 
Tradition for free.  If you want it on a nice parchment paper to 
frame, you can buy it for something like $90.  For a short time this 
past summer, they stopped offering the information for free, but they 
got a lot of push back and resumed the service.  To get the info, 
send an email with your request including your VIN to:

historisches.archiv@domain.elided

If you want the fancy version, you can get it from:

http://www.bmw-online.com  and pay by credit card or call
1-888-BMW-Online (269-6654)

In either case, note that all you get (at least for a 1972 2002tii) 
is the original color, the manufacture date, the shipment date and 
who it was shipped to (in most cases for the old ones, it's just BMW 
of North America).  I like knowing the manufacture date, but 
otherwise it's just for posterity.

Carl

At 12:41 AM -0500 11/9/01, bmw-digest wrote:
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 05:53:45 -0800 (PST)
>From: Jorge Garcia <fortee9er@domain.elided>
>Subject: Birth Certificates for old BMWs
>
>Hi,
>I read somewhere that you could order your BMW's
>"Birth Certificate" from BMW in Germany. I would like
>to do this for my 745i but I can't find or remember
>where I saw this. Has anyone on the list done this or
>do you know who to contact?
>Thanks for your help.
>Jorge
>745i
>Find a job, post your resume.
>http://careers.yahoo.com

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