It may have looked like this if it was new the year it was stolen.
Posted on 01/12/2006 1:53:04 PM PST by Cagey
CARSON, Calif. -- A Corvette stolen in January 1969 from a Queens, N.Y. resident was found in a shipping container destined for Sweden by a special unit of the California Highway Patrol, it was announced Tuesday.
The CHP's Foreign Export and Recovery Task Force seized the convertible on Nov. 28, according to Officer Joe Zizi.
Several agencies became involved in extensive research for the original stolen vehicle report and other information on the Corvette, Zizi said.
The owner, Alan Poster, will be reunited with his Corvette next Tuesday at a U.S. Customs facility in Carson.
It may have looked like this if it was new the year it was stolen.
Call me cynical, but I smell a very old case of insurance fraud somewhere in this story...
The C-3 "Mantaray" was always my favorite design.
I guess if ICE won't check cargo containers, CHP has to.
There's sure a lot of missing info in this story. Don't "reporters" ask any questions these days, or are they just afraid they'll fill up the internet with too many words?
Was this in the "Leno collection" at anytime?
The owner said, "I'm really pleased with SlowJack."
You think they would have maintained records of a loss that was 37 years old.
CHiPs emulating the RCMP...
No.
My guess is that some low option mule vette was "restored" with all the coveted goodies, high HP big block, M-22 trans., leather seats, etc, and was re-badged with the new option appropriate serial numbers and VIN plates. The only problem is that the geniuses that put the "new" VIN tags on the car used the "hot" plates from this Alan Poster guy's stolen car. His car was most likely parted out years ago.
Anyway '66's rule.
Also... I find it hard to believe that a car stolen 37 years ago is still on the books as being stolen. That must be one heck of a big data base to keep track of all stolen vehicles since the '60's. Maybe one day my GSXR, that was boosted in '91, will turn up.
I worked for a guy who unknowingly bought a stolen 1964 'Vette. He tried to sell it 6 years later and the buyer, a cop noticed the hidden VIN was different than teh windshield VIN. This was weeks before statute of limitations ran out. My boss lost the car and all he'd invested.
I thought the '69 had factory legpipes- A brilliant Detroit idea that burned more than 1 calf.
"So, was my candy bar still in the glove compartment?"
hidden VIN was different than teh windshield VIN.
1964's didn't have windshield vin's. The vin is on the cross bar on the passenger side below the glove box.
Good looking car....but had a tendency to pull to the left when you hit the gas. I experienced that on several Mantarays. Still, a pretty car. A real headturner.
Once drove one from Orlando to Palm Beach in 85 minutes. Damn, that was fun! Blew by a FL Highway Patrolman at 110 mph and he never came after me. Must have looking the other way. Thank God.
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