Ever wonder what happened to that ‘82 Citation you drove in grad school? Now you can find out.

A new social networking site lets users stalk their old hoopties and get a vehicle-history report on their current ride, much the same way creeps stalk their exes and companies vet prospective employees on Facebook.

Check My Ride, from data collection firm Experian, lets you enter information about your past cars, including pictures and anecdotes. If you’ve got the vehicle identification number, the site will map out where your car was registered before and after you owned it.

The site also lets users connect with other owners, share their cars on Facebook and get a free AutoCheck history report for their current vehicle. We can only imagine what Experian does with the data that users enter, but it’s still a fun trip down memory lane.

I gave Check My Ride a try with three cars I owned in the past, one of which I still own. As someone who feels an attachment to the cars I have driven and owned, found it a useful site for cataloging memories.

The site revealed that the Volvo wagon I traded in for my current car was last seen in Pleasantville, New Jersey. I had to get a full vehicle-history report, however, to see that there’s been no activity on the car since 2007 when I got rid of it. Chances are it’s been repurposed into tomato soup cans.

The second car was a beloved but neglected Jaguar XJ6 I had for nine glorious months. I was 19 and used a summer’s worth of earnings to pay $4,000 for the car, which had 120K on the clock and body panels were crudely spraypainted to cover rust spots. I sold it to a repair shop for $3,900 after the car failed inspection for items too numerous to mention.

There were several VINs on the car depending on where you looked (did I mention I was 19?), but the VIN I registered it under shows that it last was driven in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The history listed me as a previous owner, along with numerous people in Michigan, New York and Massachusetts. Boy that car got around.

For the rest of the story, I plugged the VIN into Google and found my old Jag had been traded in for a Toyota Prius during Cash for Clunkers and summarily crushed. While I can’t imagine the car was of any use at that point, I sure hope they took out the wood trim. Rest in peace, SAJHX1745TC761575.

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