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Lucky! Way back in 1980, I tried to find 'sister cars' to verify an idea I'd had that the factory batch-painted the cars in groups. I had no success since pairs of cars in the same area are incredibly rare (our sister-car was in The Netherlands!) The decals that define OEM paint vanish almost instantly, and I wasn't aware at the time that looking under the floormats or behind the dash will show OEM paint color. But thats what started the interest in serial number logs, and it eventually grew to Bill Van Ess's original DeTomaso Registry in 1994.