Your papuz, pleez! Not having an ID sticker on your engine is sufficient evidence to sieze it? I realize it seems suspicious, but since when is it my responsibility to make sure there are serial numbers on everything I own? Let them make the case. Strong than “police say it was stolen”. If it didn’t have an ID, how could they possibly know that?
Ricers don’t get to steal stuff or buy stolen property any more than the rest of us do. No ID number on an engine means it’s stolen.
Having these rice rockets running amuck and endangering the public is enough evidence to seize them. Its like taking the gun out of the rabid criminals hand, which should have been done before the Virginia Tech massicer.
Nice try...
I have had rebuilt engines and transmissions put in otherwise perfectly good cars. I have no idea of the provenence of the parts, other than that they were supplied through more or less legitimate companies specializing in parts for Italian cars, which I suppose is suspicion enough right there.