That is a beautiful car the should have had a LoJack devise installed. Regardless, this car will be spotted from a 1/2 mile away by law enforcement if driven anywhere.
. Not to rain on your parade, but the police do not look for your car, the only way they come across a stolen vehicle, abandoned, involved in accident, speeding, some specific event involving car, I had a car stolen in the Milwaukee Wi area years ago, and the officer showed me his 4 page print out of car thefts in the last 48 hours, they do not have the time or resources, mine was found luckily, abandoned, out of gas, cop checked his stolen car sheet, while writing 4th parking tickets and I had to pay parking tickets, that was OK as they called, I got there within 2 hours, and did not have to pay towing and storage charges, was happy to get car back as I did not have comp insurance on it.
Gotta think some of these cars are stolen to order and go straight into a container. What are you going to do with it, part it out? the Avanti world is pretty small, word will spread pretty fast. Sure as hell cant drive it anywhere.
In middle-cl*** Manhattan Beach, CA, the bad guys always put paper plates on their cars, thinking this will get them a free ride around town, but, the police know this and they are guaranteed to be pulled over, just to check if everything is cool. Any police officer in any town should do the same thing. If I see a '63 Avanti with a paper plate at 3:00am in the morning on the road I have to say that does not seem right to me.
We got rid of our emission testing a few years back, prior to that, most of the real "bad-***" street cars around here were on paper plates or Repair or Dealer plates. I had a buddy that was a lease manager, we sure took a lot of Saturday night "test drives"....
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