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Texas Man Finds Stolen Car 42 Years Later (1967 Austin-Healey on eBay)
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-man-finds-stolen-car-42-years-later-203003393--abc-news-topstories.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CdVnv5PGgwAigLQtDMD ^
| 7/11/12
| ALON HARISH
Posted on 07/12/2012 2:57:31 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Good for him. Somebody took it in the shorts for this, but maybe the police can track the car back and find the thief.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:06:07 AM PDT
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: Ronin
Based on the article, the cops would rather just eat their donuts.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:09:01 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Libloather
I do believe that if you took an insurance claim for the theft, the car is not his, but rather the insurance companies. Isn’t that how it works?
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:21:28 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: SampleMan
Insurance was not compulsory then.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:29:36 AM PDT
by
mazda77
("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
To: mazda77
It still isn’t for theft coverage.
My question just has to do with the generality. I do believe that when insurance pays for something lost or stolen, they then have legal claim to it.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:34:48 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: SampleMan
You are correct and I’m sure that is one of the first hurdles getting it impounded that was not reported on in the story. Wise of you to make the point in any regard.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:39:39 AM PDT
by
mazda77
("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:46:30 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
To: Libloather
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posted on
07/12/2012 4:05:59 AM PDT
by
iowamark
To: Libloather
Don’t mess with Texas. Good on him. I was in the gas station a couple of months ago with my grandson, filling up the tires on my 2001 Corolla when a guy pulled in to get air with a 1967 Austin-Healy. I showed it to my GS and the owner and I got to talking. His was over 45 years old and had 50,000 original miles, mine was 11 years old and had 150,000 original miles.
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posted on
07/12/2012 4:06:28 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It would have been nice if the writer had told us how many miles were put on the car while it was missing.
It would also be fun to see how many people owned it. And who was the first guy to buy it after it was stolen and how the paper work was handled.
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posted on
07/12/2012 4:23:18 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: SampleMan
I do believe that if you took an insurance claim for the theft, the car is not his, but rather the insurance companies. Isnt that how it works? My '65 Mustang was stolen in '83 (I'd owned it since '79). Allstate paid me, IIRC, $2,500, a generous settlement at the time. If it were located, the insurance company is *supposed* to notify me and give me the chance to repurchase it from them. I'm sure that some cars end up recovered and auctioned without the previous owners' knowledge, though.
I recently found the old registration and VIN after years of thinking I'd discarded them. Yeah, I'm going to look into any subsequent registration of that VIN; you never can tell.
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posted on
07/12/2012 4:31:06 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: SampleMan
Early on in my career I worked international auto theft cases. At that time, most cars stolen in the U.S. were taken straight South across the border into Mexico and beyond. Insurance companies would pay off, but were never interested in recovery, or laying claim to the vehicle if recovered. It was cheaper to simply write it off. Consequently, many years later, while chatting with a local in a small Central American village one day, a sparkling new Sears truck rumbled past us down the dirt track through the village. Stunned, I turned to the local and said “Hey! I didn't known Sears was down here.” The local grinned from ear to ear and replied, “It's stolen. Every car in this country is a stolen car from your country.” Several days later while speaking with the local chief of police, I happened to remark about the new school buses ferrying the children about in the village. Without looking up from his paperwork he responded, "School buses? What school buses? I see no school buses."
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posted on
07/12/2012 4:45:30 AM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: Libloather
It appears that if A owns X and B steals it and sells it to C who sells it to D who sells it to E, at which point the police recover it, E is out of luck.
B might be in trouble with the law. Can E sue D?
in this case, at some point a fake title must have been created. Maybe there should be title insurance for classic cars.
To: Right Wing Assault
It would have been nice if the writer had told us ...
You wanted real journalism ... in the 21st Century? Lots O'Luck ...
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:06:07 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Libloather
Isn’t there a national or state-shared database of VIN numbers of stolen cars? And if someone tries to register a vehicle with that VIN number, the police and owner get notified? Well, maybe not 42 years ago....
Love the line: “I’m not trying to sound indelicate, but...”
To: Charles Martel
I'm sure that some cars end up recovered and auctioned without the previous owners' knowledge, though. The NYPD used to (may still) do one better. They sold my father's stolen Cadillac to a "dealers only" auction house in upstate NY BEFORE they notified him of its recovery. That notification came within days of Dad receiving a check from his ins. co. Since the impound was nearby, Dad went there immediately and was able to recover ALL the property that he had left in the car. The vehicle had sat in an NYPD impoundment for a month before that notification. Seems, according to NYPD, that they were unable to find the VIN on the car so they could trace it and notify the owner (my Dad). The windshield over the one on the dash was cracked making the VIN plate difficult to read. However, the dashboard VIN plate WAS intact.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:22:10 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Right Wing Assault
Real reporters are extinct.
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:22:40 AM PDT
by
FES0844
To: PowderMonkey
To: PowderMonkey
In Mexico, they refer to cars with dubious origin and paperwork as “chocolate cars”.
Any idea why they use that term?
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posted on
07/12/2012 5:48:14 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
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