Garrett Powered Posted May 23, 2010 Report Share Posted May 23, 2010 I don't see any gray interior ones yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted May 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2010 I don't see any gray interior ones yet. My list is only early production 1990's so far. The earliest gray interior car I have marked down in somewhere in the 240,XXX or 250,XXX if I remember correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted October 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 (edited) After a few months hiatus, I've finally started slowly working on the TGP vin project again. I just updated the website w/ 43 more cars: I expect to add about the same amount within a few days... Edited December 19, 2016 by mfewtrail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White93z34 Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 whenever you are ready I can round up at least 5 vin numbers for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted November 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2010 whenever you are ready I can round up at least 5 vin numbers for you. Send them my way whenever you get a chance to Chris. I just added 66 more TGP's to the list. There was another "zero" record car in the latest batch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted November 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Updated a few more times since my last post...the first 426 1990's are now listed online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty Posted November 18, 2010 Report Share Posted November 18, 2010 Keep up the great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManicMechanic Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 http://www.yes1bid.com/index.php?fuseaction=pcar.view&carid=3101509 Black/Tan; 1G5WP14V8LF216589; leather; sunroof; cassette; 75,000 miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 http://www.yes1bid.com/index.php?fuseaction=pcar.view&carid=3101509 Black/Tan; 1G5WP14V8LF216589; leather; sunroof; cassette; 75,000 miles. Had it already, but no mileage listing or pictures. Thanks Jay. I want the driver's seat from that car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManicMechanic Posted September 3, 2011 Report Share Posted September 3, 2011 https://www.iaai.com/Vehicles/VehicleDetails.aspx?auctionID=0&itemID=11503975&RowNumber=5 1G5WP14V0KF334148 - red, tan leather, no sunroof, 06/14/89, 77485 miles, california salvage auction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted June 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Bringing this back from the dead. After a recent private message, I've got a bit of a renewed interest in getting some more cars added to the list. I will not be putting a lot of time into this so progress will be at a snails pace. I may update the online list once every month or two. At these updates, there's only likely to be a few cars added. If any of the more tech-savvy people here have ideas on automating the process covered on the first page or two, I would definitely appreciate some input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgrandprix Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 my sisters tgp is # 166 on your list i think last numbers are 213677 so you could update your sight if you want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted June 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Small update to the list. 26 new cars added. Will make another update soon with about the same amount I added this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgrandprix Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 sweet, there were a couple tgps on ebay, idk if they are still there. you might be able to get a vin from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgrandprix Posted June 29, 2012 Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 heres some vins i found starting at the end of your list, zero record car below means as it says · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V2LF224946 · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V8LF224949 0 record car · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V8LF224952 0 record car · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V2LF224963 · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V8LF224966 0 record car · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V2LF224977 · 1990 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX MCCLAREN · VIN:1G5WP14V2LF224980 0 record car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 None of those are real cars. Read through my instructions carefully or else you're going to waste a lot of time. If you need any better explanation, it may be easier for me to explain in the forum chatroom some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgrandprix Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 well i read through it like twice o.0 i guess i missed something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManicMechanic Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 1G5WP14V5LF274773 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManicMechanic Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 1G5WP14V1LF304464 - no other info... http://www.smithautos.com/VehicleDetails/used-1990-Pontiac-Grand_Prix-Mcclaren-Laurens-SC/1894788133 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted January 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 1G5WP14V1LF304464 - no other info... http://www.smithautos.com/VehicleDetails/used-1990-Pontiac-Grand_Prix-Mcclaren-Laurens-SC/1894788133 I found this one this morning before reading the board. Highest legit VIN number I've seen for TGP so far I think. I've had a few PM's about the VIN list lately: The online list is not a full list. I have more on my offline list. So far I've just been adding the ones to the list that I'm finding in sequence when doing my carfax search method. If anyone that has read my explanation of how I'm finding them via carfax and thinks they know of a way to automate the process, please let me know. I haven't worked on the list much because it's downright tedious/boring/time consuming to type all of these numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManicMechanic Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 I guess I could have run it through compnine... red; tan leather; cassette; Sunroof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred931 Posted January 13, 2013 Report Share Posted January 13, 2013 Do you think you could upload the incomplete aggregate list alongside the ordered list? I was about to give you my VIN again before I realized only 500 cars are on that list, so there's more of a problem than just not having my TGP on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Bump. Thanks to Skitchin, "automation" has been achieved. I'll update this with a large update really soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfewtrail Posted February 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 The TGP VIN project is still ongoing. I have 2,742 1990 coupes now. I know 2,749 exist, but I'm not quite sure yet where those 7 that I'm missing are. I don't believe I've skipped any in my data sets with the last method that I ran through them. That being said, I'm speculating that carfax might not have responded at just the right moments causing it to skip vins at that time. I know I witnessed the program momentarily hang every now and then. I'm honestly not sure if it didn't report it's findings during the hang or around the time of it. I'm going to make one more pass through the entire list using excel to duplicate or find the real vins for me and check them off one-by-one later this week. I don't have high hopes of finding seven more as-is. If that's the case when I'm done, I plan to re-run the program and grab all of them again. A simple comparison between the number of vins it produces the second time around for any given number range should tell me whether it potentially missed cars or not. I did end up with 5 odd vins at the end of the production range and I'm not sure exactly what to think about them. Carfax nor compnine recognize them as real vins but they got duplicated on my list as if they were real. Even if those five were somehow real, that still doesn't add up to the 2,749 compnine says exist. Turbo V Sick is working on the 1989 list. He's up to 731 of those. Both him and I are taking a short break from it as it's rather time consuming sorting all this out(especially how we were going about it to start with). I will update this post again soon. If anyone wants a copy of the list in the meantime, let me know, I do not mind sharing it. Be aware that my master list is only in a simple text document at the moment and that some of the individual information about the cars could be incorrect until I get around to completing the list. Eventually I will need to run all the 1990's through compnine to verify the options/info for them. By the way, disregard any number I told you for your car until I'm done with the list as they're very likely incorrect at this point. Huge thanks to Skitchin for providing the program. It's saved me countless hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skitchin Posted February 20, 2014 Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 So glad I could help out on this awesome project! Just out of curiosity, did you run any of the serial number range through the latest version of the program I sent you? It had some pretty basic but untested code to try and recover from connection timeouts, though if the page half-loads for some reason it is still possible for the connection to hang up and potentially skip a VIN check. I also may have found a way around the HTTPS/SSL issue. I need some time to mess with it but there's software that will act as a proxy and allow me to view the pages over a non-secure channel. I already have another version of the VIN tool which will scrape the results pages for number of records and such. Hopefully I can get that figured out before you guys dive back in, who knows what kind of time it could shave off the search for those elusive 7 VINS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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