Similar to your own social security number (SSN), your car’s vehicle identification number, or VIN, is a unique sequence of letters and numbers that belongs specifically to your car. This 17-digit ...

These articles are brought to you in association with Pocket-lint and our partners. Before the 1950s, individual car manufacturers used to have their own systems for the identification of vehicles.

(iSeeCars) – Every modern automobile carries a 17-character vehicle identification number, an alphanumeric string unique to that single car. Since 1981 federal rules have required that format, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A VIN is a unique string of 17 characters assigned to vehicles. welcomia/iStock via Getty Images Plus Every vehicle built after ...