anyone ever had a car stolen and never found?

I had a nice '61 Chevy Biscayne wagon ripped off from in front of my house. I reported it to the local cop shop. They said, "If you find it let us know." Several weeks later I received a notice to appear in court in Hinkley, MN for driving without a license and leaving the scene of an accident. Turned out the A-hole told the state trooper he was me when he rolled my car into the median of I-35 and destroyed it. This happened near Tuck's home in Pine City. This all happened in 1968 so I've kinda ruled out Tuck....

I made that trooper's life miserable for awhile because he let that sum***** go.

 

Rocky?

I knda think the cops think it's a victimless crime because the insurance companies take care of it... and if you don't have (theft) insurance, you are just a dirtbag anyway.

 

25 years ago i had a really clean 67 Camaro street race car. I bought it from a guy who got it from his granny, who bought it new. Never left the garage. Late nite street racing made it inconvenient to put in the back yard, so it stayed in the street. Next day (3 hrs later) it's gone. Never found it. Carried the ***le in my wallet just in case for YEARS

 

When I was in highschool, someone tried to steal my 81 camaro by breaking the steering column, all they ended up doing was breaking the manual stick lock, and ****ing up the ignition rod (or whatever it is called), so when I went to leave I had to finish breaking it with a borrowed screw driver from a cop. Then on the way home I was messing with the key while I was driving to see if I could drive with the key off ( don't know what I was thinking) and the car shut off. so I rolled to the side of the road. I had given the screw driver back to the cop earlier, so I was trying to start my car with a house key. As I am doing that a cop walks up to my window (scaring the **** out of me) and asks in a mean voice what the hell am I doing I think to myself "This looks real good " So after 15 minutes of explaining the situation and how I am the owner of the car and I am not stealing it, I borrow a screwdriver from him, firing the car up, and I am on my way.

I wish those dip ****s would have just stole the damn thing.

 

It was never recoverd and yet you bought it back as a theft recovery?? Explain that time/space continuum wrinkle to me, okay?


OH I get it now. FIRST you bought it as a theft recovery, then it was stolen FROM you... Good thing I had all that Robitussin for breakfast.

 

My friend caught some guy stealing his car in front of his house a kicked the piss right out of him. He looped the seatbelt around the guys neck while the guy was on the ground next to the car then shut the door, and locked it. The little loop had the guy pinned to the car while he called the police who threatened to arrest him for tieing the guy up. He told them fine, I will just just drive over there and deliver him to you, but I am not going to untie him first!

Cops were there in 5 minutes.

 

Yep '78 Chevy pickup....TWICE!

First time it dissapeard and a cop found it in a field. Stereo and C.D.s were missing.

Secound time was when my dad was trying to sell it. Two guys go for a test drive (my dad p***enger) They push him out while driveing. Never seen the truck again.

 

i recover around a dozen stolen cars every week. in youngstown they can only charge the driver with recieving stolen property unless they have a witness or video of the thief taking the car. we have a couple of cops who love finding stolen cars since about 1/4 result in a chase and crash. we recover some nice cars missing their rims and stereos that the owners never come get. after 90 days they go to the junkyard or the crusher.

 

Not a car but my roommate's boat. REAL nice little Gl***tron. We were in the parking lot next to his Jeep, leaning on the boat drinking beer after midnight. Went up to the 3rd floor apt, and turned around because I left my pistol in the Jeep(Pre-Clinton days), and the boat was already gone. They must have been watching us. It was found, though. No motor, fibergl*** completely melted over the trailer.

 

This thread should be pinned.

Yes two of them: One all, except for main body, hand (no power tools used) built all steel 41 Willys g***er still missing after 40 plus years. I can identify that car from three very identifying marks no one will ever be able to cover. May God have mercy on the soul(s) of the the son of a *****(s) who has(have) it when I find it. Was to be mine when I was old enough. 7 Craftsmen built that car and it was what got my interest started. Three of those fine folks are gone now and one is getting ready to check out so this gets more personal for me by the day.

My 1970 SS Chevelle BB 4spd car. Silver black chicken stripes with black interior. This car can be readily idenified as well. Not as much meaning but still mine and worth a ton more today.

 

I've never personally lost a car or caught anybody trying to steal mine but a friend once caught somebody trying to steal his Taurus SHO.

He beat the s***bag senseless with a lacross raquet.

When the police police arrived 4 hours later, they charged him with ***ault with a weapon and took both of them off to the klink.

He had to spend big money and was stressed out for a while but his charges were eventually thrown out in court.

 

I once bought a brand new car with cash. Drove it right off the dealers showroom floor with 25 miles on it. I took it to the shop and did a few things to it then parked it out front to do some other work. I walked out around 3 am and thought my buddies were playing a joke on me. So I joked around until I finally threatened to call the cops thinking one of 'em would cough it up. Well they didn't and the cops told me to come to the station to make a report. I told 'em I had no car (just curious what they would say) they told me to walk!
Well the car had full coverage and all that snazzy **** the dealer rolled in to the cost. The insurance company told me it was obviously a set up and I was a scammer. Still don't have the depreciated value for the car and even less understanding of why I would buy a $35k car and scam $25K (or whatever) out of the insurance company.
Any way I get a call from a friend who says he found what's left of my car in a city called Delray (the stolen car junkyard around here) when I called the police they told me I should go pick it up before I'm fined for littering!

I also used to have a truck I couldn't get rid of. My uncle gave it to me after it was stolen from him three times (he was a Det. cop) and then it was stolen from me 4 more times. I got that piece of **** back every single time!

 

yep.......2001 jeep wrangler.........stolen while i was offshore out of a fenced in and guard at the gate parking lot........never found ........stil miss it........my first and only new off the lot car........

 

None stolen from me (yet), but my life ain't over either.

I did notice the general theme that the cops don't givea****, or ain't gonna bother with it. I suggest that it's because looking for a stolen vehicle doesn't generate income for the city/PD. Having to arrest someone for being in possession of stolen property doesn't generate income.
If however, the car does get "accidentally" recovered, charging the owner of record for impound/towing/storage fees DOES generate income.
It ain't right, but it's what "law enforcement" has become.

I suggest one consider practicing the three S's.

(They shoot hoss thieves, don't they?)

Roger

 

I think the bigger problem, at least around me, is that there's shootings and ***aults to investigate and they get priority over property thefts. Our cops are overworked and there's not enough of them. Honestly, most of the cincy city cops I've dealt with have been more than fair, suburb cops are less reliable, prolly cuz they don't have enough to do...

 

never had a car stolen,but when I was around 10 in north phila I had my garage built (from trash picking parts) 20" bike,5speed rim and shifter,long sissy bar,blue metal flake banana seat,cheater slick and just added a gold chain.30 years and I'm still pissed.

 

In '76, my dad took me and my sister to a car show at the Silverdome. He had a '75 Trans-Am. Dark Blue, Crager SS's, Headphones, CB - all that awesome '70's stuff. I bugged the piss out of him for weeks to take me 'cause Fonzi was going to be there.

As I remember it, (I was only 5 at the time), we parked in a row with other Trans-Ams. Went inside, walked around, didn't see Fonzi because the line was too long. Went outside and the car was gone.

Rolled down in a sweet Trans-Am. Rolled back in the rear-facing seat of a woody station wagon. What a bummer!

My dad was half-convinced that my mom engineered it as payback for their divorce. I think Fonzi swiped the S.O.B.

 

Anybody that steals a car from a guy named 'Vinny' or 'Sal' ain't to bright.....................

 

I remember when i was pretty young, maybe 7 or 8. It was right after christmas in january sometime..

My mom was working at an Antique show, so my dad had to take me and my sister out for a day. We were pretty broke back then, so going out for pizza was a HUGE deal to all of us. We had just went to Toys-R-us and i bought a plastic Jeep with a trailer and two dirt bikes, and my sister had just got something else. We had to leave 'em in the Jeep when we went into the pizza place.

40 Minutes later we go to leave, we walk out, and it's already pulling out. My dad tried to chase them down, but it was no use.

Looking back on it, I can imagine how much that ****ed, not only for my dad, but for the finacial situation they were in. He finally found another jeep like it about 6 months later. And we kept that one until a drunk driver totaled it for us about 5 years later.

I am still angry about my Toy Jeep and trailer. My dad bought me a new set, but they were blue. I had the red ones. Never saw again... *sigh*

So if you ever see a 1984 Jeep Wagoner, It's the brown one with the wood grain and a 360 in it... I want it back.

 

Rocky's Model A oughta be in this thread

 

Car thieves should be hung by the neck in the town square. Juvies or not![/quote]
They used to hang horse theives...didn't they? Same thing...

 

Yes it has happened to me and I think about that car often. I owned a shop in Austin, Texas at I35 and Congress, the shop was broken into and most of the tools they could carry were taken along with my 1933 Chevy 5window coupe, never saw it again.

 

had a $60 '47 chevy...1966...parked in front of my house...no ***le and the
plate from my '63 ford was on it....it had bricks,...bricks not blocks stuck in the back shackles so it would sit up high in the back and look neat sitting in the street....when the cop came to make the report i did not know the plate number so i showed him the stack of unpaid parking tickets i had and he figured out the number from comparing the scribbles...
you can't make stuff like this up...3 or 4 years later there was a '47 chevy
in a driveway in the next suburb over....looked like it wasn't running so i checked and got it for $25...1966 remember...it had a nice paint job,new seat
covers,couple of chrome wheels and lowered in the front......now.............because when i towed it home and checked it out i realized i had bought my own car back

 

A buddy of mine bought a new H.D. Fat Boy, put about 200 miles on it before putting it away for the winter in a rental storage garage. Went to get it out in the spring and his key didn't work in the lock. Cut the lock off, opened the door, empty garage (**** his pants)! Luckily he had insurance which paid for a new one, but the bike was never recovered.

 

I've had two stolen. The first was a Monte Carlo Aerocoupe (nascar style). A lady called the cops when she tried to back out of her garage and the car was parked in her driveway. The cops called me to come get it (no finger print dusting or anything) and when I got there and ID'd myself, the cop looked at me and said "are you sure this car was stolen?" I could've killed the ******* right there for insinuating that I had somehow set this up. The second, a Chevy Van and I found it, just by accident, in an apartment complex with the steering column smashed. Then, had the 90 hp Evinrude stolen right off my boat. Can you believe that someone took a 360 lb outboard off my boat and made off with it? Must have been a big som *****. Cops never did anything to help in all three situations. Needless to say, after going thru all that, I have little respect for them anymore. They're just around to bust the kids smoking a joint or hand out tickets..if you think there are here to help....walk in my shoes...and by the way I don't have a criminal record, my opinion was formed by them and there behavior. Sorry ****.

 

Yep,
'68 corvette convertible, triple black, 327 auto. Bought it in rough condition in 1990 and did a minor resto to make it a great driver. I had it for two years and put a lot of miles on it. It was stolen out of the garage at my house while I was on vacation...

Same story as the rest, cops were very little help, the only reason they came to my house to get a report was due to the fact they broke into my house to get the car. The car was never recovered, it was fully insured, but you can't cruise money with the top down...

 

I bought a '70 Eldorado in the middle of the fuel crisis time during the early 70's.
It was silver with a black vinyl roof, a sunroof (very rare factory option in 1970) and it had black leather buckets.( only '70 I've ever seen with buckets.
I bought it from a good friend of mine who was selling it at the Concord Auto Auction in Acton M***.
I paid for the car and drove home about 6:00 PM.
By 7:00 PM it was gone from my front driveway.
Never recovered the car.
Cops were puzzled.
I live on a 4 house, dead end street that you could never find without me leading you there.
I still had the keys in my pocket and I was only in the house for maybe 20 minutes before I discovered it missing.
I carried a copy of the ***le in my wallet for years thinking someday I might get reunited with it.
The insurance company finally paid but sincerly thought that I had stolen my own car for the money.
They claimed no one was buying luxury cars at that time because of gas prices. ( It was over a buck a gallon in M***atwo****s)
If that car should turn up today it would me worth a tidy sum.
Also that next summer someone tried to swipe my 70 Ram Air GTO out of the parking lot at Logan airport and another idiot tried clipping my 68Covette roadster while I left it outside Sears at the Burlington Mall.
The only damage was ground out ignition switches on both those cars Real amature dopy thieves.
I was still able to drive both cars home those times.
Later I installed hidden electric solenoids in the fuel lines.

 

I got a call at 4:00 AM a few years ago, and its a cop asking if I owned a tandem axle 16 foot trailer, I'm half asleeep wondering why they want to borrow my trailer, I say, yea why? He tells me that its sitting in the middle of the I-110 bridge. It was at my office with the hitch locked, they just chained it to a bumper and it must have come loose. Had to pay 150 bucks to get my own trailer out of impound.

 

I could write a book on this one;I repaired an old van over about a year,eventually sprayed it,within 2 weeks it got stole never to be seen!I borrowed a friends trailer to get my unfinished rod to a hotrod show,there was security guards everywhere,come to check it,its been nicked!Salt in the wound i got ****** all trophy and someone else copped the "hard luck award".This cost me a kings ransom to settle up.A fellow hotrodder nicked my new wheels from the back of a van,I hadn,t even got them on the rod yet?I had to move when it got to a stage someone broke into every vehicle I parked,even hire vehicles that I might have only used for a couple of days.I don.t sleep so good....theres more................

 

well I have been fortunate..no stolen cars ..yet..but as i see it..back in the day a horse was a mans only form of transportation..and *******s who stole horses got hung in the town square...well today i conciter my motorcycles and cars my horses..if some one trys to steal them and i find them they may never find the body..and as far as im concerned taking something that aint yours is prosicutable by death...hang em high..or put .40cents in their head.