Lost/Stolen STOLEN!! White 3dr Cosworth, D588OWA, Mablethorpe, Lincs 20/05/18

[Felly Magic]

If thieves see a potential profit in it, any car can be a target, and now Americans are snapping up UK cars over 25 too that weren't sold there, a few have been copped though, like late model Minis with rung IDs, and under US law, these are crushed, no thought to notifying the UK plod & insurance companies

[sierraman]

Surprising even mk1 mondeos aren't stolen to order for banger racing meets. Scarce cars now.

[lesapandre]

Yes they have been particularly hot on Landrovers which are ermmm...backdated. Crushed by Dept Homeland Security and Customs.

[Felly Magic]

Wasn't there a motor stolen from a car show the other year? If I remember correctly I think it was at Santa Pod. Years back I had my car stolen, it was recovered minus all my joinery/brickie tools, and had bald tyres, busted door lock & ignition lock, and a very empty fuel tank. I think I got off lucky that it wasn't torched. It bloodywell pissed me off though, as the plod didn't seem to give a toss, didn't even finger print it. Society sucks!

[Zelandeth]

My Lada was nicked prior to my owning it when it was back up in Edinburgh. It turned up a couple of weeks later in a back street apparently.

 

That *did* get fingerprinted. ... I'm still finding the bloody stuff from that today.

 

I don't believe anything came of it though.

 

Friend had their (company) car nicked a couple of years back, yet despite crystal clear CCTV footage of the offender and support car - both of which were "known to the police" they didn't even send anyone around to so much as take a statement, much less follow it up.

 

Sadly these days if they want it, they'll get it. I do my best barricading the Lada in the drive behind a modern... thankfully prices of these haven't got high enough to warrant them lifting it out the drive as far as I'm aware yet...

 

 

The fact that modern cars are relatively speaking, so hard to steal I think has probably made older motors more of a target than ever.

[omegod]

I remember Will Holman, editor of practical classics? having his black 3 door cossie nicked 10 yrs ago and it was never seen again, he had some feedback it had been spotted in a Devon garage being hurriedly stripped but got no further 

[Pillock]

Ive said it before the worst thing is most people don't disable the location on their phone camera so any tom dick or Harry can find the cars exact location from the picture without any giveaway details

On Facebook, and on this forum (others may vary) the location data is stripped out.

Facebook will ask if you want to use it, but if not you can't view the location that your phone camera saved.

 

In fact the standard behaviour for the past 18 months on Android is that location info is removed when sharing photos, it's only saved on your personal copy.

[mercrocker]

Pretty sure there was a classic Ford half-inched from the public car park during one of the Beaulieu jumbles, too.   There ought to be a secondary charge for anyone caught stealing a classic along the lines of aggravated vehicle-taking - these cars are not just commodities to people.    Caught is an unlikely outcome, I do concede.   Dragging something off somebody's home property also ought to invoke harsher penalties.  

[Aston Martin]

Gumtree is really bad.

 

I'd like to steal the easiest car in the world, I'd like a Fiesta ST.

 

 

 

 

Click get directions.

 

 

 

Thanks for your address.

 

 

 

I'll just confirm on street view against the Gumtree pic.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the free Fezza... that can be stolen without a key.

[fordperv]

And these fuckers are so blatant. They really don't give a fuck.

 

I hope it was insured or that's 20-30 grand down the shitter.

 

Ford stuff is just a liability.

The first thing I checked was m.o.t data and insurance, unfortunately showing as uninsured, a damn shame, I don't know what you guys do but I keep my projects insured as a just in case

[Eddie Honda]

Ive said it before the worst thing is most people don't disable the location on their phone camera so any tom dick or Harry can find the cars exact location from the picture without any giveaway details

That's how the US Army lost 4 very expensive AH-64 Apache helicopters way back in 2007. https://www.army.mil/article/75165/geotagging_poses_security_risks

[Pillock]

The first thing I checked was m.o.t data and insurance, unfortunately showing as uninsured, a damn shame, I don't know what you guys do but I keep my projects insured as a just in case

Be careful checking insurance. It's only for drivers of, or people involved in an accident with the car you're checking.

 

I wouldn't want my computer address associated with a search for insurance on a car that's just been nicked....

[filthyjohn]

Theft is deplorable, obviously, and I don't want to get into victim-blaming... BUT; I wouldn't leave an undisguised thirty grand in the garden and think it was adequately secured by a key that looks like this:

 

[Felly Magic]

If I was flogging a car on Bumtree, I sure as hell wouldn't take the photos anywhere near home, some random carpark perhaps, with no real identifying landmarks

[Matt]

Gumtree is really bad.

 

I'd like to steal the easiest car in the world, I'd like a Fiesta ST.

 

 

 

 

Click get directions.

 

 

 

Thanks for your address.

 

 

 

I'll just confirm on street view against the Gumtree pic.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the free Fezza... that can be stolen without a key.

 

Google's products can be a scarily powerful tool if you know what you are doing for sure.

[PiperCub]

Sad to say but this has been the case with fast Fords for many years, it was happening more than 25 years ago to RS Escorts before they got remotely near the stupid prices they are now. You really do have to nail them to the spot and preferably keep them out of sight. 

 

I suspect the Cossie will be stripped by now, things like the motor and esp. the interior will be easy to move on. 

 

In the 1990's when they were current, the finance director of the company I worked for had a Cossie (it was the one bit of good taste the obnoxous, arrogant twat ever had IMO), it was stolen IIRC three times, recovered twice, both times partially stripped for parts. The third time it never resurfaced. To be fair, each time it went missing, he was genuinely gutted as he did really like the car and kept hold of it when it could have got something newer/more expensive. 

[Angrydicky]

I remember Will Holman, editor of practical classics? having his black 3 door cossie nicked 10 yrs ago and it was never seen again, he had some feedback it had been spotted in a Devon garage being hurriedly stripped but got no further 

That was actually about 2002/3! Yes that was the story, he was bemoaning the lack of resources Devon and Cornwall police have for solving vehicle crime, that meant by the time coppers popped around to this well known dodgy place, there was no sign of it. But they thought it had been there.

[Felly Magic]

Many cars are stolen to order, and sadly many toe-rags are silent lurkers on many a car forum. The thefts are usually the tip of the iceberg. When I was a teenager, I was valeting cars for someone I knew who was a 'home trader', one day the cul-de-sac was filled with plod, me & him were bundled into a van, and everything in his yard was confiscated, including 2 Cosworths, I didn't know that the cars I was prepping were all half inched or cut n shuts, I got a caution for it, he got a nice paid fro holiday at HM's pleasure. No wonder I was getting back then between £30-£40 a car, and he always had several grand on him

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Google's products can be a scarily powerful tool if you know what you are doing for sure.

 

A couple of years ago, my Dad's car was broken into and my other half's handbag was nicked.  The Police said they knew who it was and gave us *just enough* information to actually work out what their home address was (despite it being halfway across the country) and what their names were using Google and Google maps.  Now, granted, the Copper didn't give us any more than he should have, my other half is just particularly tenacious.  Bunch of thieves from Salisbury who rotate in and out of prison and have a pool of legal vehicles.  The theft was in Devon (but they like to day trip to the beauty spots down there).

 

Fuck yeah, Google is scary shit.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Many cars are stolen to order, and sadly many toe-rags are silent lurkers on many a car forum. ...

I wonder if they lurk on AS.

[HillmanImp]

Gumtree is really bad.

I'd like to steal the easiest car in the world, I'd like a Fiesta ST.

Click get directions.

Thanks for your address.

I'll just confirm on street view against the Gumtree pic.

Thanks for the free Fezza... that can be stolen without a key.

Okay, you've given me the location but I need more information on how to steal it without a key. Help appreciated.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I wonder if they lurk on AS.

Definately.

 

I had an issue recently. Either my car has been cloned or someone mistook the number plate but it was definitely not me that hit a parked car 160 miles from home. I had put a picture of it on here but it hadn't been anywhere else on the internet.

 

As for Google being scary, I was recently relayed the story about Eccentric Richard and another shiters cat....

[cpjitservices]

Definately.

 

I had an issue recently. Either my car has been cloned or someone mistook the number plate but it was definitely not me that hit a parked car 160 miles from home. I had put a picture of it on here but it hadn't been anywhere else on the internet.

 

As for Google being scary, I was recently relayed the story about Eccentric Richard and another shiters cat....

Do tell?!?!?! Whats the story?

[Aston Martin]

Okay, you've given me the location but I need more information on how to steal it without a key. Help appreciated.

 

https://youtu.be/dvmSOEKfkug

 

https://youtu.be/4bAh8LrsoAs

 

 

I couldn't be bothered to search alibaba for a kit.

[Lankytim]

Do tell?!?!?! Whats the story?

 

 

I think it was time a few years ago where a very irritating member called "Eccentric Richard" pissed the forum off to such an extent that someone found where he lived and managed to get an image of his cat on street view.