Hi everyone!

Apologies in advance if this isn’t the right place to ask this, but at this point I feel I’ve hit a dead end and any help or tips to continue my quest are appreciated.

I used to own an old Ford Bronco as a teenager. I sold it around 2010/11. I have kicked myself for getting rid of it since and have looked for it for well over 10 years with no luck. Yesterday I did my periodic VIN search just to see if there was any new information and my old truck came up! It looks like it went to auction twice, once in late summer 2024 at a Baltimore Maryland municipal auction and again in October 2024 from a few auction websites that ship American vehicles to Europe. I’m not sure which site sold the truck, but when I did get a reply from one of those sites that the truck was shipped to Poland. It would have been shipped at some point after October 10, 2024 but I am not sure when.

I’m not sure why anyone would want to pay to ship this vehicle all the way to Poland considering the condition it was in the auction photos, but I hope for the best.

Does anyone know if there is any way to track down a vehicle in Poland?

I know it’s unlikely I will ever be able to get my old truck back, but if I can track it down and maybe just get the identification plate from the door frame (which I will gladly pay for and pay to ship) I would be eternally grateful. It sounds silly, but this truck meant a lot to me and has a lot of memories. This is a long shot at best.

Photos are of the truck back when I had it as well as some of the auction posts from October 2024.

by zzz0mbiez

22 comments

  1. > Does anyone know if there is any way to track down a vehicle in Poland?

    Not as a civilian. Data protection regulations are rather strict.

  2. I doubt you will ever find it. Vehicles like those are not imported for quick sell. Rather someone needs spare parts of wants to restore it.

  4. Just because it went to Poland doesn’t mean it is in Poland. 

    It could have been sent to Ukraine. The Ukrainians buy or get donated a lot of 4×4 vehicles for the frontlines. 

  5. You can try asking on FB groups, “Ford Bronco Polska” “Ford Bronco PL”
    Chances are low but you never know

  6. You can check on [UFG](https://www.ufg.pl/) whether the vehicle is currently insured in Poland. In section “Sprawdź OC dla pojazdu” (check OC for vehicle) on the site, select “Numer VIN” (VIN number) and then enter it. If the vehicle is on the road, it must have insurance, so at least you will know if it is used in Poland

  7. It’s probably in Ukraine and probably in pieces by now.

  8. i dont know how to help but good luck man seems like you really liked that car

  9. 1FMEU15N4RLB19729? It’s not registered for OC (insurance) [due to UFG portal](https://www.ufg.pl/infoportal/faces/pages_home-page?_afrLoop=21020265394383984&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=vir617z8f_4) now (and I also checked last year’s record). Might be hard to find it.

    https://preview.redd.it/ciw7y83gzkhe1.png?width=1220&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b68195fcd20e68221c869227ca93670dea37bcf

    >A negative answer of No data can be given for a number of reasons. The following is a list of reasons for which a negative response was generated:

    >- lack of vehicle insurance

    >- delay in the transmission of data to the UFG by the insurance company

    >- failure of the responsible insurance company to forward the data to the UFG

    >- rejection by UFG of data provided by the insurance company (e.g. due to poor quality of data provided)

    >- errors in data provided by insurance undertakings

    —

    I checked also [https://historiaszkod.pl](https://historiaszkod.pl) if maybe they have any records like for example if it was totalled or crashed, but it doesn’t have any records of crashes/checks

  10. my uncle bought a used bronco that looks like the one you’re looking for, it was in summer though

  11. It’s a long shot, but maybe possible. There’s a YouTube channel TERENWIZJA, about offroad and 4×4, maybe if you’d contact them and ask for mentioning your search, the current owner would get your message. They’re nice and very open guys who love cars, and it’s an interesting story to tell.

  14. >maybe just get the identification plate from the door frame

    Stop, hold up. Do you mean an official factory plate that has the VIN number on it or the color/trans/axle/other info? Nobody in their right mind is going to sell that to you, because these are used for our yearly mandatory vehicle inspections and are very important if anybody ever wants to restore it or sell it in the future. Unless it ended up as a parts car, then good luck finding it.

  15. Check car auctions like otomoto.pl, there is one heavily restored bronco with the same production date, you could ask the seller if maybe your car was used for parts.

  16. The German owner cried when selling the car. If it was shipped after October 2024, it might still be in transit. Your best option is to chase facebook groups and hopefully somebody knows someone…

  19. Most likely it just got to Poland recently. Usually it takes 3-4 months to ship a car to Poland. Don’t listen to delusional opinions about your car ending up in Ukraine. No one will spend half of the cars value for shipping just to send it there, we have enough junk, and actually they don’t need it there anymore. Recently some importers have been prosecuted for releasing those cars into public market (tax frauds and such). 
    Anyways, if your car was in pretty good shape it was most likely bought because some particular person wanted exactly your car to be brought to Europe by some import company. 
    There is a lot of polish US cars market details that determine your cars fate, it all depends what you sold.

  21. I cannot edit my post to add this, but I just wanted to thank everyone here for replying.

    Most of you have been really helpful and I am so thankful. I know how silly it may seem to many people to be so attached to a 31 year old truck, but this truck is a reminder of a time in my life that has long since passed. Memory is a strange and wonderful thing sometimes.

    Apologies, as I do not speak Polish, but I need to at least try, so….bardzo dziękujemy (sorry if that is wrong!). Thank you all!

  22. carvertical could be an option but that’s paid service

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