Virginia man finds stolen 1969 Camaro after 17 years

UPI ^ | Dec. 28, 2020 / 3:44 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

https://www.google.com/search?q=English+Austin+Cambridge+A-55+MK+II+1959&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvq6iI5fXtAhV3Ap0JHfhpDWYQ_AUoAXoECBMQAw&biw=1260&bih=853#imgrc=7r__kG-hqQnWhM

[Hot Tabasco]

Everyone else got screwed by the thief/thieves.

No, only the current owner. All the prior ones were able to sell it.......Except for the original owner who had it stolen but now has it back with upgrades.

[Hot Tabasco]

He even got a new engine.......

Cook said the car has received some upgrades since he last owned it -- including an engine being installed in the formerly-engineless vehicle.

[Red Badger]

Where I sit right now, there is a 74 VW Thing and totally rebuilt, from the ground up, bare chassis, and a 64 Corvair in process. My bosses brother, retired, rebuilds these old cars for a hobby. He has done several Things, Corvairs, Bugs and a 41 Chevy Panel and a 50's Jeepster...................... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willys-Overland_Jeepster This is him:

[BOBWADE]

Reminds me of something my father joked about. The last couple years in St Louis was bad for the Rams. Dad jokingly said that he had left a couple tickets to the Rams game on the dash in his car when he went into the store. When he came out he discovered someone and knocked out the window and left him two more tickets...

[Rebelbase]

Sounds familiar and might be the 65 Mustang GT in this video. It was located 25 years after being stolen and returned to the owner. The last owner had installed a new engine and other upgrades. The rightful owner paid the prior owner for the upgrades saying “I’d have put that much money into it over the past 25 years anyway”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XRE3yw-PdM&ab_channel=InsuranceCrime

[Red Badger]

The one I’m thinking of was a plain Mustang, not a GT-350.................

[ExGeeEye]

Three years later I learned to pedal on two wheels.

Nobody even thought about putting a helmet on me...

[ExGeeEye]

I still have the car. However, after spending decades in my parents’ basement... it needs a paint job.

[Red Badger]

And is probably worth a fortune!....................

[ExGeeEye]

Not that I care... the old things I retain, I retain for my pleasure, not for profit opportunities. That's for the next generation to decide.

But, here's a blue one, restored, on ebay for $399. Click the pic for the listing, if it interests you.

Apparently, my great-grandfather paid around $12 for it. Mine is like the blue one in not having the white "windshield frame.

[Red Badger]

Never had a toy one. I had a real one...................

[ExGeeEye]

I “had” a ‘69 Impala. Thought I was going to be able to keep it, have it for summers and after college. My dad actually owned it, and sold it while I was away.

[Red Badger]

I have had all the ‘Pony’ cars, Mustang, Camaro, Charger, Firebird.

The Firebird I miss, the Mustang I still have..............

[John S Mosby]

Thanks for finding— amongst the photos (and looking up in my papers-it was the earlier “rounded” body model, so a MK I), found the one I had— paint job was light gray.

Here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austin_A55_Cambridge_with_non-originakl_wheels_1489cc_first_registered_January_1959.JPG