I knew a guy whose car was stolen and later recovered. The thief had installed new shock absorbers.
LOL. I had a woman friend in NY whose ugly, rusted out, bright yellow, really crappy Chevy Cavalier station wagon was a health hazard and visual blight was stolen, driven for a couple of weeks and later found a few blocks from where it was stolen with several thousand additional miles on it.
Any reasonable person would have driven this wreck directly to the scrap yard.
The car was sooooo cheap,.....How cheap was it?,....It was so cheap it didn't even have a passenger side mirror. It was so cheap it didn't even have a cigarette lighter.
I loved it when she would go to meet her stock broker son at fancy restaurants for dinner and valet park the thing.
Now THAT is an odd story :)