Man tracks down classic car stolen in 1995

[toplscuda]

A friend of my dad had is first car stolen 1957 chevy. He had raced it for a number of years and then parked to body at his dads business. Someone stole it and it was gone from 1981 until 2006 when he recieved a call from Missouri state patrol. They asked him if he had owned the car and he told them how it had been stolen. They let him know they were in posession of it and he could come and pick it up. Seems a guy in south west missouri found it in a junkyard and was planning on restoring it. Before he sunk a lot of money in it he took it to stte patrol to have it checked so he could get a title for it. It was still in about the same shape it left in except it had a engine and trans in it when he got it back. A couple of years of hard work and he is driving it again. Just now it has a 427 in it

 

[Mopar to ya]

No way, that cause 80% or more of 911 calls are not really 911 calls

Go in some shopping plaza and fire off a gun in to the air and see if it takes the police 23 mins to response, more like 2 or 3 mins max. With cell phones the police are notify fast now, once a FEW 911 calls come in, watch out, the police will totally out power you

The point is, a bullet is faster than the police ... every time. Doesn't matter if response time is 30 seconds. My bullet will get there in a fraction of a second.

 

[trapster]

The bad thing for the prior owner is this......he don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of gettin his "upgrades" back. Anybody that knows anothing about the legal system can tell you that. His upgrades become part of the "real property" which is the car. He's SOL.

He has action against the original owner, if the upgrades are separable from the original vehicle. but it would not be an easy battle.

He has action against the person he bought it from for everything he paid and upgraded on the vehicle.

And that person has action against the person he bought it from.

They are all guilty to some extent because the VIN obviously did not match the car.

And of course the insurance company needs to be reembersed for what they paid out on the original theft. If there is anything.

And the original owner can go after the person he got the car from for any damage that the vehicle has now that it didn't have when it was stolen.
Like whatever it will cost to put the paint back to original Or removing and re-installing the original sound system.

It may be foolish for the guy to sue the owner of the vehicle.

 

[dodge freak]

The point is, a bullet is faster than the police ... every time. Doesn't matter if response time is 30 seconds. My bullet will get there in a fraction of a second.

True true.

I just dislike guns, its too easy to kill. I don't trust myself and what if somebody knock it out of your hands and turn it on U ?

I would not want to kill a person either--yeah it would be better then getting shot. Well if I owned a business maybe I would carry one but I see no need for it for me. The police are good enough for me--so far.

 

[dodge freak]

I don't care legal or not. If my car was stolen and 16 years later I got it back and the guy who got ripped off put lots of hard work and money in to the car I would feel obligated to somehow compensate him for it.

I would not give him every dime he put in to it--cause its not brand new anymore but if the car had a worn out engine when it was stolen and now it had a fresh $10,000 engine, that guy could have his engine back--as for as I care. Just would not sit right with me to take the car back in better shape then when I lost it...

As for the lowlife who stole my car--where is that 9mm handgun of mine, ha ha ha--why I don't like guns, lol

 

[xlexl]

True true.

I just dislike guns, its too easy to kill. I don't trust myself and what if somebody knock it out of your hands and turn it on U ?

I would not want to kill a person either--yeah it would be better then getting shot. Well if I owned a business maybe I would carry one but I see no need for it for me. The police are good enough for me--so far.

It's not too easy to kill trust me, even up to the second you pull the trigger, your subconscious makes you shoot high and right.

I don't even carry in this state anymore and I have my concealed. The problem is that in WA, you have to have exhausted every escape route conceivable before firing(yup in WA personal property doesn't constitute ability to use lethal force). Even if your in the right, you automatically put into jail, your life ruined while you go through 6+ months of trials, while prosecutor playing monday morning quarterback. Than even if you feel you were legally in the right its a crap shoot whether you can make the jury of WA liberal, tree huggin hippies see it that way. For what? Because your car got stolen?

Everyone on here that said that they'd shoot them never made one legal rebuttal why they would have been in the right. It's all the good always triumphs. Guess what in this legal system it DOESN'T, I'm going through an attempted assault charge and obstruction charge because it doesn't.

As soon as you pull that trigger you are at the mercy of the first responding officer, your attorney, your judge, and your jury. None but the attorney you have any say over and even than its your finances that have more of a say into it than you do. Want to count on a cool cop? How many decent cops have you met in the last couple years? He's the one that will make or break your case. Guess what he shows up afterwords and you don't know the local, state, and federal gun laws to a T, which side do you think hes going to be on in his report?

If you own a gun and you plan on using it for protection, EDUCATE, EDUCATE, EDUCATE. Everything isnt going to be all hunky dory.

 

[pishta]

Go ahead and try and steal mine. You wont be able to figure out the Hurst Shifter, nor the electric fuel pump switch under the dash, nor the fact that I keep 2 gallons in there (and the fuel guage is wrong) and the key to the gas cap is not on my key ring. Then there is that little wire on the ignition box that can be grounded so it doesnt work...I had an old car stolen and the thief got exactly 1/4 mile before the carb ran dry. Found it parked on the side of the road. I didnt even call the cops. Old Ford took exactly a strong screwdriver to turn the ignition....

 

[mullinax95]

dodge freak what planet you live on? Down here in the sticks it takes sometime for the police to respond. I listen to a police scanner while I sit here at the computer, going down the road in my truck and at work. Sometimes the law is not far off from the call but most of the time it takes at least 10 minutes or longer for them to arrive on scene. You realize what can happen between 5-10 minutes? I have heard some horrible things happen to people AFTER the officer has been dispatched and the time of his/her arrival.

I have a concealed weapon permit and tote concealed on a regular basis. I'm not out to kill someone but rather not be a victim. First of all the only time my gun will come out if it is fixing to be fired. There wont be any knocking out of my hand because I'm not going to waving it around. It's coming out for one reason and one reason only and that is to kill. If one takes a concealed weapons class he or she will learn a wealth of proper use and ethics. I might sound like a second amendment, bible belt freak but I don't like being stabbed, shot, beat in head with a bat just over a few dollars in my billfold.

It is a responsibility to carry a concealed weapon. Which state I can carry in, where and when I can carry, stay up with new gun laws,etc.... I know Im mature enough to carry and use a firearm in which it is intended. I bet if you took a concealed weapons class and educated yourself you would carry and "trust myself" with it.