Bumped into a guy at the hardware store who was telling a story about finding a mid-50's Corvette while tracking a deer he had shot. Car was sitting in woods, fairly intact but with trees growing through it. Copied VIN number and found out the car had been reported stolen a few months after it was purchased. Apparently it was driven into the woods and abandoned intact. Don't know if landowner knew it was there. Just wondering how much red tape is wrapped around the car's ***le, or have the problems gone away since it's been so long?
If the car was stolen, it belongs to the original owner, or the insurance company if there was a pay off.
Sounds like another ******** story that is going to do the rounds on the Internet for the next couple of Months. Like the Portugal Barnfind that we keep having to Delete Links to ( turned out to be a complete Hoax ), and others that went before that one...
BS, especially without any pictures to prove it. Corvettes just don't sit out in the woods for 50 years without somebody noticing them unless he was maybe deer hunting 500 miles from the nearest road. In which case how did the car get there? Regardless, it would still be stolen property and the legal owner would still be fully en***led to get it back no matter what condition it is in, who has it or how they got it. You could get it, drop $100K in it restoring it and then have it taken away from you and given back to the rightful owner, car + your $100K worth of work. There have been a couple of stories here in CA recently where people have gotten cars back many years after they had them stolen. ...yep, first google search popped this up on top: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/23/national/main2970779.shtml ***uming he didn't know the property owner well enough to let him in on the incredible car find, it is also a real bad idea to hunt on property you don't know who owns it and likely without permission.
i found a 70's corvette in the woods once,it had been burned,i got the wheels and the engine.. true story. this was in 1973 or so..
I kid you not, my roommate told me that same exact same story! Well, except the part about it being a rare fuel injected 283 with a 4 speed? Guy dragged it out, sold it at Barret-Jackson for a million dollars?
must be a kentucky thing.... as there were (and probably still are) a couple of "borrowed" early vettes in the woods...there was another off of a old access road off of the railroad...striped beyond recognition.... i also know where there is even a early tri 5 bird parked.... just a little underground .... story time ...some of the perks of hanging out with the older but now wiser car borrowers.... brandon
ah why dosent your hardware store buddy contact the trolls or the origional owner i would be stoked to complete the link and reunite someone with their car it would make a better story than this B.S.
I found a 55 Chevy 2 door sedan in the middle of ******** nowhere with no road that I could see. Since it was all shot to hell it was obvious I wasn,t the first one to find it. I did manage to get some trim that didn,t have any bullet holes in it......
From what I have been told even though vettes are made of fibergl*** they have metal floors so if it has the soft top on it and the top is gone trees would grow up through it like any other convertible or the hood has been open the whole time and trees are growing through the engine compartment. Jeff
No Corvette, no matter what year, EVER had metal floors. Only the birdcage structure in the '63 and up is metal. I have seen vegetation go through some amazing things though. Fibergl*** would certainly be easier that metal to "grow" through.
when they added catalytic converters they went to a steel floor. there is a lot of metal in all corvettes (besides the frame). bonded in braces for the hinges etc. but you already know that, i see you have a 61
I think that there are plenty of steel splash and heat shields but nothing molded into the gl*** for the floors. Yeah I do own a few, what can I say, it is an addiction. If its not one kind of auto it would be another. The post started out with a discussion of a '50s vette so that definitely is all 'gl***. Not even a birdcage structure in the body.
i was listening to the CNN one day and this girl bought a 56 t bird last year off of ebay. she went to register the car or was going to go through it again im not sure but she found out that it was stolen back in the 70's and guess what, she lost the car and the owner got it back from the insurance company.
I know of a real Shelby Cobra at the bottom of a lake... but the story gets complicated after that. It'll be years before I can tell it. JH
Fibergl*** rots really well. Have you ever seen any old gl*** (like a boat) that been left continually in the weather? Cracks, crumbles, rubs away. But, I too call BS on this story without real pics (show today's newspaper like kidnappers do).
Damn maybe it's my 55. That piece of **** leaked so bad I drilled 3/4" holes in the floors to let the water out. Yes I had the windows also. Some s*** bag stole it & the cops picked him up three days later. They just gave him a ticket for joyriding & when we went to court The *******s treated me like I was the criminal. The cops would stop me weekly just to check me out as I was 24 at the time & driving a fairly new 55 vette. I sold it & bought a 56 T-bird & the *****s wouldn't even look my way. Ahhh wish I had that vette now.
True Story, I get a call one morning from the county sheriff ( not always a bad thing)who asks if I own a '61 MGA. I say I use to several years ago. Seems it had been abandond in a garage and had gone through several owners without any of them changing the registration. Since I wasn't sure why else they were looking for the owner I didn't volunteer to go get it. Have kicked myself several times for that.
hmmm then that must mean the 73 vette i had in my shop with completely rotted metel floorboard, and ****** tunnel was an experimental unit! and yet they still sell the steel replacemant floor pan for it! the whole floor pan is riveted and bonded around the perimeter from the factory.. i know we are not talking about a 73 vette but i thought i would clarify that
ChopPop had a 54 and had to do the same thing. The top and the set in windows leaked like a sieve. Without the drain holes you could get damn near ankle deep in water on a long rainy trip.
Way back when I was a kid, so many Corvettes got stolen and stripped for race cars and hot rods it wasn't funny. I built my roadster with the Corvette "donor car" theme. I was telling Blackie G. about it at the GNRS in 07 and he got tickled. When they shut the irrigation dams in the St Joaquin valley every year quite often stripped Vettes were found.
I'd like to know how he "checked the vin" and found out it was stolen....I believe that you have to do that through some law enforcement agency, might raise a little su****ion when it comes back stolen. Sounds like a B.S. story to me
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