Calm down Hero. It's Friday...ease back on the booger sugar a little bit...but you are 100 percent right on. You can't see the vin number from a car that might be in your neighbor's garage or on the side of the road. The big block Formula S certainly narrows it down quite a bit. To the tune of what? around 1,270. The stuff you can see from a distance that hopefully has not changed is important. Color, stripe kit, wheel style is a great place to start if you can't find it on a net search by VIN. If a guy was close enough to see the smiley face sticker in the glove box at one time...that would be the memory jogger for sure!