I'm not really into cars. But if I could have one back that I used to have, it would be my '79 Monte Carlo. It had a small block 305 ci V-8 that the previous owner had supercharged. Oh baby did that thing get up and go. Sadly, I was young and foolish at the time and racked up so many tickets in it that it was eventually impounded by the State Police - just before I had to ship out for several months overseas. When I got back to the states nobody with the State Police seemed to be able to locate my car. I'm guessing my car had a new home with a very happy trooper.
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The thief was clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
The police, however, were worse.
My sister's orange RX-7 was stolen once. The thief just happened to live by the railroad tracks that she and I both used to commute to work, and we both spotted the car in his backyard.
When we went looking for it he had painted it red and had it in his front yard with a for sale sign on it. We asked to look it over, and the 'owner' was happy to oblige. The door and ignition keys had been changed, but the glove box and hatch had not. My sister's keys still worked there, and in the glove box was an orange paint stain where a bottle of touch up paint had spilled.
We called the cops and waited until they got there. Once we presented them with what evidence we had, they called in their auto-lab guys who came in and basically pulled the car apart looking for VIN numbers etc. They were unable to find anything conclusive. The number had been ground off the engine block, and the VIN under the windshield matched the papers that the guy had. So he got to keep my sister's car.
But not for long.
Mysteriously, very late that night the RX-7 burst into flames and was utterly consumed. Arson was suspected.