[davepl]

Good luck! I still have my first car which was my Dad's first new car, 48 years later! But his 1968 GMC 910 pickup got sold off to a neighbor who flipped it (grrr), so it's long gone.

Do you have photos of it at all? That's a start.

A VIN is really going to be key. You'd be surprised what you can find. I don't have the Protecto-Plate for the above-mentioned car, but in digging through my mom's junk I found a copy of a bill from the dealership for warranty work that had an imprint of it, so now I "have" the protect-o-plate. Hopefully you can luck into something similar, finding the VIN on an old receipt or something.