Posted on 03/28/2025 9:34:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said.
The cars were taken from the GM Bowling Green Assembly plant in southern Kentucky, the home of the Chevrolet Corvette since the early 1980s. The eight cars were valued at $1.2 million, police said.
Police said the thieves cut a fence at the plant to get the cars out. A man later arrested and charged with the theft of three cars said while being booked into jail that if he “would have made it back to Michigan, I would have been paid big,” according to a police report.
The first car was located Saturday when a woman at an apartment complex in Bowling Green called police to say she saw a man park a new Corvette with stickers on it at the complex and then walk away.
Police contacted the manager of the assembly plant, who checked the inventory and reported that eight Corvettes were missing, according to a Bowling Green Police report.
Police later located four more Corvettes at different locations
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
According to Pliny the younger, the famed Roman senator Biggus Dickus owned a Corvette chariot.
Been lookin’ all over for my little Red Corvette.
Have you seen it?
I hope they checked around them for boxes of classified documents too.
Dr. Jill’s fault.
at least they didn’t fall in a sink hole.
Their mistake was sneaking the whole car out at once instead of one piece at a time.
He has a wife, you know...
Had my 75 Vette out yesterday at the local brewery... all polished and looking good. Got the usual compliments and questions and people taking pictures. One kid, I’d say about 8 or 9, walks over, starts hugging it and kissing it. Bizarre to say the least. I let it go because I didn’t see the parents.
“ Huh, This is the Cotton Mouth
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there Red Ryder
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it’s cheaper that way.”
-Johnny Cash.
Had a Corvette once: it was pretty, but it had problems every day I had it. It was a real lemon!
Sounds like the perps watched second season of “The Wire”.
Had two Stingrays back in the 60's. My '64 convertible was stolen and found by the FBI in Toronto, Canada over a year later. Still had a pair of my socks behind the passenger seat inside the battery compartment.
I’ve had two sports cars that are like that. A FIAT X1/9 and a BMW Z4.....................
So that's what happens to socks. Still, I am surprised that it was an actual pair.
Respectfully, Mr. Bager, an X-19 and a BMW Z4 are NOT "sports cars like that." An X-19 has 85 horsepower and a BMW Z4 can have up to 382 horsepower. A ZR1 Vette has 1064 horsepower That's not to say that they are not sports cars or not fun cars but they are not in the same league and not sports cars like that. Do yourself a favor. Go test drive something with a thousand plus horsepower. It is exhilarating. But be warned, after driving it, you might have to have one since you obviously enjoy sports cars.
LOL! Truthfully, it WAS 2 singles and not a matching pair.
BTW, hard to imagine but a brand new Stingray back then was 'only' $5K.
As fine a Roman as I’ve ever known.
L
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.