<font face='Comic Sans MS'>PEEP! Gerald was right. I reckon your original post was one I hadn't read. As we used to say in Vietnam 'Sorry about that'.
Seriously, I did have success in mid 1999 locating a '71 Corvette I had bought new in Riverside CA. The drill was (at that time) to send to the DMV Sacramento, the VIN and a $5.00 fee with a request for the name of the current California owner of record. Some weeks later I received a computer printout with the current owner's name, sans their address. Did a white pages computer search which located a match in southern CA. Gave them a call and sure enough they had the car.
The DMV address on the printout is; PO Box 944247, Sacrament CA, 94244 2470.
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