cool story bout gettin back a stolen car

Tweeker= person who likes going fast in there car and when not in car

 

This post reminds me why I always get a car in my name before I spend a dime on the restoration. I'd be beyond furious if I restored a car and had it given back to the original owner lol... shame would be on me for not putting it in my name first though.

An old co-worker of mine had his '79 Toyota pickup stolen about 7 years ago. This thing was a POS but it was a shortbed 4x4. He paid 800 bucks for it. It got stolen and he didn't see it for a year. Well it had been sold to this Mexican guy who was a gardener. He got pulled over and didn't have ID so they started researching the truck and called my friend to identify it. When he showed up at the police station, it had a 4 inch lift, newer BFG M/T tires, stereo, new paint in factory colors, newly recovered bench seat blah blah blah... a nice work truck resto. He still drives that truck to this day.

He says if he ever wears it out again, he's going to leave it running with the doors open on the wrong side of the tracks to try his luck again...

 

i read about a 50's t-bird that was stolen in california some 30 years ago owned by a cop and it was returned to him because somebody had purchased it on e-bay out of ohio and they were trying to register it back in california. he said he was shocked to have it returned in restored condition. the pic's showed when he owned it and now, this guy really got lucky.

 

...now when he drives it around he gets shot at

 

I had a pretty nice 78 Trans Am in 1980. My girl at the time was driving it to school and it got blasted right in the passenger door by a huge truck so hard it made a Banna out of it and pushed it across the street where it hit the curb and shattered two of the snowflake mags so that just the lug nuts were still on it. GF was OK, car totalled of course. Truck's insurance pays me off..............

Three years later I get a call from the Alabama state police saying that they found my car there and did I want to come pick it up! I thought for a minute and then told them the truth that there was probably a stolen car parked under my old VIN tag.

 

A customer of mine from Shepherd TX in the early 90s told me about a 40 Deluxe Ford Coupe he had stolen from his workplace in the east side of Houston in the early 70s. He came out to the parking lot and it was gone. Some time later I get a call to go look at a 40 Coupe only blocks from the railroad yard where my customer's car was stolen. It was in a garage behind a four-plex apartment building. I jotted down the VIN number. The car was pretty apart and missing alot of stuff but still buildable. The guy came in several weeks later and I asked him if he knew, or still had, the VIN number of his stolen coupe. He called me the next day with the number and a week later with the help of the County Sheriff got his car back after almost 2 decades. Of course, it wasn't the running driving sweet car he had then but it was HIS.

The thief, of course, was long gone and the property owner was unhappy to give up "his" classic car but right is right.

 

Just like the original "Gone in 60 Seconds"! I just got that DVD. It's amazing how easy they make that process look....

 

Please pics?!???????

 

I hope your buddy has sense enough to sell it right away, I wouldn't take a chance driving that thing.

 

This had NEVER occurred to me! Good point CJ, thanks for the reminder!!!

 

In about '96, I was living in some apartments in Arizona. I was building a 69 camaro, and there was a guy in the next building over who had a pretty nice 67 camaro. His car had not moved in years, and was covered in dust, and all of the tires were flat, but underneath all of the neglect was a stocker in pretty good shape. One day it was gone. About a month later be brings it in to where I was working for new tires, and I start to talk to him. It turns out that it had been stolen, and the thief had got the car running, given it a tune-up, put new brakes and belts and hoses on it, etc and pretty much had just given it some TLC and then when the thief went to register it, got busted.

Also in about '91 I had a friend who had a 69 chevy stepside truck. It was in OK shape and ran rough. Well he sold it. And then it was sold again. A couple of years later, he gets a call and it seems that somebody and got it running, and the truck had broke down and it was left along the road. The cops had it towed and when they ran the plates, none of the new owners had ever re-titled the truck.

Brian

 

karma. it'll bite u every time.

 

I drove from Omaha to Northern Oregon to claim my 30 ford pickup when my dad died. After 1750 miles of towing an empty car trailer, we opened the door of the shed to find.....nothin!
It had been stolen after being in our family since 1930. I filed a report and jumped through all the hoops but it's been 5 years now...no word yet. I hope I recover it all built with a new flathead etc etc...

 

It's like the real-life version of Over-Haulin'!

 

somebody steal my car

 

No shit!

~Jason

 

If anyone wants to do that to my '48 Dodge I'll gladly send you my address!

 

Well, same thing happened to me,I was dating a girl who was buck toothed ,no boobs,a little big in the bottom and dirt poor. A friend stole her from me and married her ,liposuction, implants,years at the dentist, and he has a heart attack and passes. She returns home really hot lookin,really rich ,and wants only me !!!!
Nah I'm sh#$in you, I just made that up ,but wouldn't that be cool!!!

 

Heard this one about a guy buys an old hot rod without a title ad proceeds to tear it down in his garage in full view of the road. A passing motorist notices the car being worked on and weekly checks this guys progress. When the car was finshed the motorist finds a local cop and takes him to the garage with the car title in hand. Needlest to say the guy bought a stolen car and rebuilt it which involved thousands of dollars. The cop impounded the car until a court said the former owner could retreive it. The other guy said to the judge he wants the money back he spent on the car , judge said no it wasn't yours to start with you loose.

 

I tried to do that, with my buick they said they wouldn't let me register it unless it had a motor in the chassis.. don't have a title or anything on it atm

 

i do recall a story not long ago about a 55-57 t-bird that had been stolen in cal. some 25 years earlier being returned restored to it owner. the car had been in ohio and was sold on e-bay to person in cal. they went to register it and came up stolen. the real owner was retired police officer and the real interview was really kinda cool because the woman selling the car was out the money she paid for the car. but he was thrilled to get car back and would gladly take it back.

 

So your answer to the judge is "Yes your Honor" and the when the a&'hole comes to pick it up you have the car pre soaked in gasoline and then toss a match and burn it to the ground.

 

Go to work and stop fuckin around on the computer.

 

Seems to me the passing motorist is guilty of stealing time and money from the instant he spots his old car till he let's the unsuspecting hot rodder finish it. Law is law, but fair is fair.

 

so you get auto theft and arson all in one sentance ...good idea....not!

 

so you get auto theft and arson all in one sentance ...good idea....not! "


If your gonna get theft might as well go all the way.

 

Its funny that you say that a friend of minehas a few titles of some cars from the 30s and 40s and checks them with the DMV once a year hes found one 35 3 window from South America but didnt hit the North America shores if it had it would be his he also told me the are two more cars in Mexico if they ever come across the border they will be his and the sucker that pays the big money for them and transports them will get a big thank you but nothing more.

 

In the mid-70's my Pops had a '57 Chev 4dr wagon drag car. 427, 4spd, tunnel ram, etc. He also had a fellow working for him who was compulsive about marking stuff with an engraver.
At this same time, they were building the I-470 loop. Kids would go out on the unfinished highway and do what kids do.
Dad's shop was broken into, and the wagon was driven out onto 470, and stripped. He got the carcass back, but figured the rest was gone forever.
The next spring out at KCIR, Dad's buddy Duane is checking out this dragster with a big block and tunnel ram. He plays it cool, and the guy doesn't think anything is out of the ordinary when Duane opens the throttle on one of the carbs. He was actually looking down into the intake, and found the marks he had engraved there.
It turns out the tunnel ram was the only thing we ever recovered, and we could never prove who did the actual theft. But we had a pretty good idea, and Karma may have been influenced in one way or another.