Mk10 Jaguar STOLEN

[Six-cylinder]

Not really shite (well, depends on what you like, I suppose) but my wife’s beloved 1966 Mk10 Jaguar 4.2 Automatic has been stolen this week, from the Buckingham area. She has owned it for 19 years and had been restoring it slowly over time. It is dark blue with flat paint and an interior that is a mixture of black leather seats, grey vinyl door cards and no carpets. The dashboard woodwork is peeling and the sunvisors have sagged and don’t move. It is a rather scruffy car, with repair panels to the rear lower front wings, new sills in black primer and patch-welded floors.

 

The fuel lines were disconnected and there was no battery on the car, also it had two flat tyres, but someone managed to take it away anyway. My wife is devastated.

 

The car has a stainless steel exhaust and copper brake pipes, but no brake fluid reservoirs and the handbrake doesn’t work. The wheels are devoid of hubcaps and there is no brightwork around the front and rear screens.

 

The numberplates were left behind and the car was the target; the thieves cut through two padlocked farm gates to get to it and moved a non-running Triumph Herald out of the way to load the car onto their conveyance. Nothing else was touched.

 

Someone keen to make a few £££ out of the banger racing community seems an obvious choice, but any other ideas?

 

All information received with thanks. 

 

[barrett]

What utter bastards.

I'm sorry to say it but there is a very good chance this will be going round the oval in the next couple of weeks, I can't see any other reason for the theft.

 

When are the race organizers going to make proof of ownership mandatory? It's the only way stuff like this is going to stop.

 

I hope you somehow manage to get this back, good luck!

[Albert Ross]

That's just shit news. Get to Prestwood early doors tomorrow.......

[Alexg]

This sort of shit shouldn't happen. I hope it turns up safe and sound.

[trigger]

Sorry to hear this, As Alex said, Shit like this shouldn't happen, But it does, Just ask Nigel Bickle who had his Datsun nabbed by banger racers.

[Minimad5]

Hope you find it soon, good luck.

Make sure to post a picture in to your local weighbridge.

 

Once again - Good luck

[Six-cylinder]

Thanks. It was never really my cup of tea as it was so scruffy (don't get me wrong, I like Jaguars and have owned a 1970 420G, 1975 XJ6C and 1972 S1 Daimler Sovereign and still have a 1966 E-type, but I prefer them in a bit better condition) but my wife really loves this car. She bought it to celebrate getting her first job, so it has lots of personal meaning for her as well as being a model she likes.

 

I guess we can contact the local banger racing circuits and scrapyards and ask then to keep a look out for it. Amazed that anyone managed to take it away without being noticed. You don't see cars like that on flatbeds/trailers very often...

[Alexg]

I find it amazing these people have the nerve to just turn up and do this. Scum

[trigger]

I've posted a link over on the ovalbangerchat forum if that's ok, You never know, someone might have seen it.

 

http://www.ovalbangerchat.co.uk/topic/8 ... gham-area/

[Lord Sterling]

the thieves cut through two padlocked farm gates to get to it and moved a non-running Triumph Herald out of the way to load the car onto their conveyance. Nothing else was touched.

 

Damn, I'm really sorry to hear that. Seems nothing is safe from these thieving bastards. I'm sure your wife is devastated and I can understand where she is coming from, my cars to me have personal meaning too.

 

I really do dhope that there is some glimmer of hope of finding it. If you do manage to get it back, try and cover it up and keep it away from prying eyes.

[Six-cylinder]

Thanks for Ovalbanger post - good idea. Appreciate everyone's commiserations and suggestions - I will show my wife - might make her feel a bit better!

[pogweasel]

What a bunch of BASTARDS.

May the perpertrators' genitailia be irrepairably mutilated in a freak accident involving sharp pointy things.

[Lankytim]

This absolutely must have been taken to race, either by a racer or by a pikey who wants to sell it on to a racer.

[scaryoldcortina]

I'd be checking the weigh in yards too. I'm not knocking the "banger racing" theory, but light iron is £200 a tonne at the moment, and if I was theiving scum, I'd move a herald aside to weigh in a jag X for sure. got to weigh at least double....

 

Good luck tracking it down.

[eddyramrod]

What a bunch of BASTARDS.

May the perpertrators' genitailia be irrepairably mutilated in a freak accident involving sharp pointy things.

 

Couldn't agree more!

[Shep Shepherd]

I really do hope that the car is recovered and that the scum that took it are brought to justice.

[Cavcraft]

What a pisser. Pog's right, I hope they meet a nasty, violent end. I'm afraid the weigh in yard or racing is the most likely outcome and (sadly) you can't trust all metal yards to be completely honest. Best bet may be (if you have the time) to wait round near any local yards and see if you spot it on the back of a truck being taken in.

 

Good luck though because cars have been known to turn up again so fingers crossed.

[wrecker]

what area was it stolen from?

[Lankytim]

Didn't Mr Bickle recently flood TEH INTERNETZ with details of a car he had stolen? It made the car too well known to sell or race so was dumped and he got it back.

[garycox]

from the Buckingham area.

[nigel bickle]

When my 60's Datsun was knicked last Autumn I made a LOT of noise on every conceivable forum going.,

 

The heat applied on Oval Banger chat got me 7 responses within 24 hrs telling me who, how, where & when .An ultimatum was delivered -by them -to said indivdual who returned/dumped it within 48hrs.

 

It had been booked onto a Classic Banger race up in Mildenhall Suffolk (I'm on the south coast) 4 weeks hence. (There arent any otrher mid 60's datsuns in the UK...)

 

So-I'd say this.

 

If its for banger Racing join their forum, shout, add pictures, keep the story alive. It'll have been parked in an unused council lockup to see if the heats on/ off. Yiou must keep the heat on.

Contact all the banger circuits within 200 miles and advise of the vehicle, features etc. Mk10's are rare now- and easy to spot..if its subsequently raced at their circuit -they've some explaining to recompense.....

 

I doubt its to be weighed in, too much care taken -but it might be for spares...

Advise DVLA of the theft- esp highlighting the engine number since it may reappear( in an E type.)

 

Oh-and the Police. They'll do nowt except charge (or try to) for toiwng it in/storing it) if its dumped because of the ''heat''. But you have to tell them -in case it reappears in a few years.....

 

If i can help further- shout. My Mk10 was knicked 20 years ago -almost ceretainly for the running gear & cragar wheels.(ETR 960C where are you now...)

 

Otherwise- get busy. Time is of the essence.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

That's about 400 quid on the scales right now. Which yards are closest to you? I'd imagine Smiths of Bloxham are worth a trip. Hughes in Bicester won't take anything in without a V5 but it's worth a ring to see if it's been offered to them. Don't know of any yards around Milton Keynes or Buckingham.

 

Bangering is possible but it seems a bit unlikely somehow - unless they're stashing it on a farm for a later date, it's a bit too obvious a crime to turn up next week at a banger meeting. I could be wrong though. I doubt a Mark X will fit in a council lock up.

 

Sorry for your loss. Words just fail me.

[Pillock]

Metal yards are motivated by cash. Send a picture to as many as you can and offer a cash reward if they find it for you. I dare say it'll have to be more than the money they'd get from fragging it.

 

Also do a Bickle and get on Ovalchat. 99% of the guys on there are straight up and will dob someone in if they're bringing a bad name to banger racing - again waving a few notes around for information can't hurt.

[Six-cylinder]

There were several metal items such as an empty animal drinking trough close by which were not taken.

 

Chris

[Cavcraft]

It's on OvalChat and someone has taken exception to the suggestion that all racers are thieves. Not that that was suggested from what I can see.

[Guest]

Also do a Bickle and get on Ovalchat. 99% of the guys on there are straight up and will dob someone in if they're bringing a bad name to banger racing - again waving a few notes around for information can't hurt.

 

I agree wholeheartedly with this. Every banger racer I've met loves their sport and will do anything to avoid it being brought into disrepute. They're a close knit bunch and (like with Mr. Bickle's Datsun) someone will know if the Mk10 has been taken with racing in mind. Does it run? Not that that would be a problem for a determined racer, but it might slow its demise if serious work has to be done.

 

Doesn't really help your mrs if it is cut about to accept another engine, but it may at least prevent it appearing on the oval straight away.

[Guest]

I've posted a link over on the ovalbangerchat forum if that's ok, You never know, someone might have seen it.

 

http://www.ovalbangerchat.co.uk/topic/8 ... gham-area/

 

Hey trig, can you copy the posts into a thread here? It won't let you in without a login and I don't have one.

[Cavcraft]

'why is it when you read the other post about this on other link everyone on there blames bangers , i would say the price of scrap that is where its gone'

 

'Not everyone does blame them and a couple of lads on there race themselves You can't blame them to some extent though because one lad did have his car nicked by a racer.'

 

'Travelling scrap thieves. Has any diesel been stolen locally in the past few weeks.

 

A friend lost 400 quids worth recently, when his elderly sister was away from her old farmyard, where she still lives.

 

Diesel and scrap are stolen almost nightly around here now.'

 

' keep an eye out at this years pre 68 i suppose? '

 

'Agree with you there Malc,my landlords tanks are done periodically by at least 2 different sets of thieves,if it was someone just after scrap they would have taken the Herald too(and the gates if they were metal)that are mentioned'

 

' Hes not blaming the banger community. In fact he has gone out of his way to word it so as the racers may be as much a victim as the owner. Note how he uses the phrase 'make money out of the banger comunity' IE theoretically selling it on to a racer who buys it.'

[Wilko220]

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' keep an eye out at this years pre 68 i suppose? '

 

The whole concept of a "pre 68" banger race just sickens me. Race genuine, unwanted bangers by all means - but I don't understand what kind of scum get pleasure out of destroying the oldest, rarest vehicles they can possibly find.

[Bren]

It's a shame the sport has a reputation because of a small minority of thieving bastards - now that the MK 2 Granadas' are getting thin on the ground the unscrupulous racers have to look elsewhere.

 

My mate is a cortina nut and he used to have a few at his house. He said people from the banger fraternity were always driving past and having a nosey, although nothing was ever taken. He knows a few racers, so tracking down anything of his would not have been a problem.