How about this nonsense. Last Friday I'm flipping through FB MP and see a busted out 72 skylark, roller, stuffed with parts, locally "no title $4k" at a towing yard. I recognize the location and take a quick ride. Real POS, project that has been passed around for a while. Look it over and it has good fenders, nice rust free doors, good core support and inners, rocker trim, new glass hood tied to the roof and a trunk and interior filled with content. We settle on $2k and I go get the trailer and go. I dig through the contents and pull out a set of bucket seats from an earlier GM and list them on FB. Wednesday I meet up with a guy to buy the seats, make the deal. We start talking cars and he tells me he had a 72 skylark stolen 2 years ago from his shop. Yup, you guessed it, same car. I make a B line for the local police dept. and give all the info to the patrolman and he forwards it to a detective. Turns out the car was never reported stolen, but the seat guy has the title, and it's in his partners name who is an attorney. After a few days back and forth with the detective he uncovers it was originally taken from the seat guy, wound up at a shop, then stolen from that shop. Winds up at a 3rd shop where the owner gets shot 8 times and has no will. His brother becomes executor of the estate and sells it to the towing company that I buy it from. Detective determines myself and the towing company did nothing wrong and I could keep the car. Seat guy wants it back and is willing to reimburse me $1500 + the $500 for the seats he already bought. The stubborn mule in me wanted to fight to the death for it, but after sleeping on it decided to return the car to the owner.
The moral of the story is to report your stuff when it's stolen. Poor basterd bought the same car twice when he could have just got it back and left you to deal with getting your money back. Weird story.
If he had reported it stolen when it happened, Fred would be out $2000.00. My grandpa bought a stolen JD mower that was hot & he did not know it. They confiscated the mower & He did not get a dime of his purchase price back. Rick
Yup. I saw the Needham MA police tow a Lincoln out of it's owner's work parking space because it was found to have been stolen a couple of years earlier. The guy lost the car and the money he paid for it.
Unfortunate, but well done handling it Fred. Hopefully you put some positive energy out there that some good things are coming your way.
So there is the car and the story. Usually the car is real and the story is BS. This time you have a real story and no car. You could hit all the bars and "sell" the story for a beer. If you tell it real good, maybe two beers...
