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Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #1
Moggy59 Paul Eggleston WV, USA	Posted: July 04, 2012 10:45AM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 3,032

Cool story:

Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later

http://autos.aol.com/article/man-finds-his-stolen-austin-healy-forty-years-later/?ncid=txtlnkusauto00000020

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #2
pcadogan pat c ok, USA 1973 MG MGB "Eliza Jane"	Posted: July 04, 2012 10:47AM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 2,266

Cool story!!

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #3
Simon Austin Surrey, BC, Canada 1977 MG MGB V8 Conversion 1994 MG RV8	Posted: July 04, 2012 10:52AM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 8,344

That is cool.

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #4
Speedy1 John Gonzales-Lusk Los Lunas, NM, USA	Posted: July 04, 2012 11:15AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 3,360

Great story! Good for him. I wonder if the guy selling it on eBay was who stole it?

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #5
29desoto Wayne Sanders Outside Otis, OR - in the woods!, USA 1965 MG MGB V6 Conversion "Tubby" 1977 MG MGB "Ole Yeller" 1979 MG MGB "Kermit" 1984 Chevrolet Corvette "The Green Weenie" 1994 Chevrolet S10 "Lil Red"	Posted: July 04, 2012 11:25AM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 6,203

What's the odds gotta be? Good story with a good ending.

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #6
GreenBee Daniel Sukel Maplewood, NJ, USA 1968 MG MGB "The "B""	Posted: July 04, 2012 11:45AM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 1,106

So what happens to the dealer who bought it? Is he out of the car completely?

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #7
Simon Austin Surrey, BC, Canada 1977 MG MGB V8 Conversion 1994 MG RV8	Posted: July 04, 2012 11:57AM Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 8,344

I would think so.

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #8
TVRPAUL Paul Robilotti Englishtown, NJ, USA	Posted: July 04, 2012 02:47PM Registered: 6 years ago Posts: 1,349

In this story the car was not stolen but this happened to my cousin.

I the mid 60s my cousin was going to NY Maritime College, during the summer the cadets would have to go to Europe on the schools ship.
He had put up his Austin Healy 3000 for sale. While on his trip a person bought the car, my aunt handled the sale.
Well fast forward 40+ years latter, my cousin who now lives and has a business in Southampton LI. he was at a customers office and on the wall
he had a picture of an AH, as my cousin is looking at the picture he is seeing thing that make him realize that it was his car.
When he started talking about the car, he was told that when he bought the car he dealt with the sellers mother because her son was out on a ship
going to Europe as part of his schooling, the more they talked the more her realized this was the person who bought his car.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/2012 02:48PM by TVRPAUL.

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #9
slywelder Steve Yandoli new york, USA	Posted: July 05, 2012 12:03AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 3,578

If the car had theft on the insurance would it be fact that once the ins company paid out then the car was actually not belonging to the owner but now belonged to the insurance company and if found would belong to that particular ins company?????

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Re: Man Finds His Stolen Austin-Healy -- Forty Years Later #10
JackMG Jack Lindler Greenville,SC, USA	Posted: July 05, 2012 09:01AM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 14,907

If he had theft coverage. But a college student may very well have not had theft coverage on a 3-year old car which was probably worth about $1000-1500 by the time it was stolen. At the age he was, and with that type car, it was probably all he could manage to pay liability coverage...

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wyatt Wyatt W penguin point, drift ice, Antarctica 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1958 Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1960 MG MGA 1966 MG MGB	Posted: July 05, 2012 03:50PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 23,301

...hellavastory, heart warming.....I'd like to have some of the cars back I stole........ smoking smiley

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