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Sept 25, 2006 18:48:06 GMT
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taken from the road in the night in streatham had a steering lock on it maroon with grey roof completely standard with grey interior reg number BGN 706B 997 deluxe with aftermarket carb and pancake filter completely unwelded underneath rear headlining tatty any info TVRCHESS@AOL.COM
reward offered
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Sept 25, 2006 21:00:36 GMT
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Hi, I've have just learned what you are going through when my Avenger was stolen the week before last. I'm still trying to track it down. Here are my suggestions based on what I have done.
1. Phone the police and report the theft. So far they have proved pretty useless in my case, but they will notify the DVLA which will make it hard for the thieves to sell the car, or even scrap it.
2. Next, make a round of the residents on your street with a flyer giving the details about the car - colour, make, number plate, perhaps a picture, and when and where it was stolen from, together with your contact info. Someone may have heard it being loaded onto a truck, or perhaps someone came home just as the thieves were driving off in it. You need all the info you can get in order to form an idea of what the thieves intentions for the car are.
3. Check for nearby CCTV cameras on your street and the main roads in and out of your street. If they belong to private businesses you need to ask them quickly if you can review them because they tend to record over them pretty quickly - probably within a day or two. If it is a council/police CCTV camera let the police know and pressure them to review it, especially if you can narrow the time of the theft down to an hour or two.
4. If you think the car was hotwired and driven away you may want to alert the local cab companies and ask the cabbies to keep an eye out for it as the thieves may be joyriding it. This worked for someone else on this forum.
5. Phone scrap metal dealers, especially ones that weigh in cars. EMR is the major one in West London - Brentford - they are legit and will ask for the V5 or possibly even run the number plate through the DVLA. I believe there is another EMR facility somewhere in South London. Look in the phone book under scrap metal and phone the other dealers. A lot of them do not take cars but you should still ask them who does as they can probably point you toward more likely places. You can also look in your local paper and phone some of the scrap guys who advertise to haul away scrap cars and ask them where the thieves might take your car if they want to sell it for scrap. Also phone breakers. I am in the process of compiling a list of breakers for the London area, and also a list of scrap yards. If you want it, just email me at dbelobaba@yahoo.ca
6. Lastly you should call around to the banger tracks, and perhaps try to track down some local banger racers. The tracks I have contacted so far have been quite helpful. I am hoping to contact some local racers this week and ask them to keep an eye out for my car, as well as ask them where my car would most likely be raced, and if they know any dodgy racers who do this sort of thing. I am also going to do a mass mailout to as many race tracks as I can this week with a flyer providing details about my car and offering a reward. If you could do up a flyer about your car and email it to me in MS Word format in the next day or two I would be happy to mail it out with mine.
Drew
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1995 Range Rover 4.0 1995 BMW 320i Saloon 1989 BMW 325i Touring 1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 1991 Mercedes 190e 1970 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1966 Valiant 200 Custom 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
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madmart
Part of things
love is: valvebounce in top gear
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Sept 26, 2006 0:05:08 GMT
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the other EMR branch is in manor road erith sorry i don't have a contact number for them mm
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Sept 28, 2006 15:37:44 GMT
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One of the breakers alone Manor Road went up in flames last week, HUGE pall of smoke! My parents live in Bexleyheath and could hear the gas cylinders stored there going bang! I hope nothing cool was lost.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Oct 13, 2006 15:01:56 GMT
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HERES A PIC
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Samage
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Oct 13, 2006 22:34:21 GMT
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Such a shame, looks like a beautiful car. Hope it turns up.
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V8imp
Part of things
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Oct 14, 2006 17:11:31 GMT
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yes good looking car hope it turns up
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67 Sunbeam Stiletto 72 Clan Crusader 998
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gutted for you - looks a beautiful car
my blood continues to boil as this stolen section fills up with great cars now in the hands of scum
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room.
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Where do they all go to? Do you recon that if the council recover a burnt out and vandalised wreck they just crush it without identifying it to save time? Not that this ones been burnt out......
I just cant figure out how all these cars just "vanish"
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.
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Oct 19, 2006 20:48:39 GMT
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Last Edit: Oct 19, 2006 20:50:01 GMT by mrabody
1995 Range Rover 4.0 1995 BMW 320i Saloon 1989 BMW 325i Touring 1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 1991 Mercedes 190e 1970 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1966 Valiant 200 Custom 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
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Oct 19, 2006 22:04:10 GMT
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So if it was a stolen vehicle, they are not only destroying evidence but also handling stolen goods???
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Oct 19, 2006 23:37:43 GMT
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Makes you wonder what a council worker with no interest in cars would call "fit only for destruction" Burnt out shell? All the panels dented and full of syringes? Bits of rust and primer on the body? Older than a 2000W reg? Does this also mean that if someone wants to dump a car somewhere without having to mess about with V5s etc. then they can just leave it somewhere and make it look "fit only for destruction" and they`ll hear nothing more about it?
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100 per cent correct vicsmith, the place is called Ashlake Road, SW16. Get in the queue... to make room for it all they occasionally just take a few of our cars away...
I've been trying to figure out how to reply to a post on here for a month. You have to register (DOH!)
Thank you all very much for carrying on the conversations about my Stolen Anglia which Matt posted for me and which I haven't until now worked out how to reply to.
Since then, my neighbour's classic Mini has also gone awol from same road (along with several others, non-classic). It was green with a chequered roof but he hasn't given me the reg. Bournevale Rd behind us is also good for dumping stuff/stealing stuff/murdering people...Also any sofas, fridges, other furniture or glass bottles can be dumped outside my garage on Bournevale, oh and if you've bored set it on fire before you leave. Lambeth Council are around every day to remove 3 - 6 cars dumped each night here.
mrabody I really wanted to reply to you weeks ago but as I said (DOH!) Thanks for all the advice. Got some more stuff to say but just pulled an all nighter to finish my migration law assessments so it'll have to wait till the brain works.
I'm hoping its all just a huge joke, hooligans stealing stuff from somewhere else and dumping in our street and then stealing from ours and dumping elsewhere. Eventually they might forget where they've rearranged stuff from and it might just come back??!
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Oct 20, 2006 13:20:44 GMT
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That sounds like a nasty little situation, alright. If I read this right you have to not only get other peoples dumped cars clogging the place up (which is really silly as any car will weigh in at the moment for £50 upwards) but the council drag peoples cherished motors into the same net and the whole lot disappears. I really hope this hasnt happened to this Anglia its way too photogenic.
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Sorry if this came out wrong. I meant people bring cars and dump them in our and surronding streets (presumably 1 mafia) with expired tax discs and the council comes and takes them away. Then people come and steal stuff from our streets (presumably another mafia or perhaps the same one). It definitely wasn't the council, I've explored all those avenues (twice). Sometimes I think it might all be a big joke, the local hoodies joyriding stuff from other streets and dumping in ours then taking our stuff and dumping somewhere else and eventually they might forget what's come from where and dump mine back again in my street. LOL. No I'm definitely losing the plot. The Anglia just got taxed for a whole year so if its on a street it won't get picked up till sept next year. I rather think its an organised racket going on and its gone.
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Actually, further to your last point about your Anglia being taxed, I believe the law has been changed and council doesn't have to wait until the tax runs out. Which is a good thing, unless your car has been burned to a crisp and is considered beyond repair since then they don't have to tell you thay have hauled it away.
Regarding what someone said earlier that this new law would make councils complicit in handling stolen goods, as I read it, it ownly exempts them from informing the owner. I don't know if they are required to inform the DVLA or the Police, but I expect most would if only to protect themselves from legal liability. In any event, such cars would be hauled to one of the large scrap metal dealers who would have to at least report that car as scrapped (they might not bother checking to see if there is Police interest in the vehicle if they received it from a council - then again they might).
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1995 Range Rover 4.0 1995 BMW 320i Saloon 1989 BMW 325i Touring 1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 1991 Mercedes 190e 1970 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1966 Valiant 200 Custom 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
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Oct 22, 2006 21:54:35 GMT
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It takes 10 minutes to find the vin numbers on a car. It would help the police clear up rate if stolen cars were identified before they were crushed, although I'm not sure if the police still call motor vehicle theft a crime anymore....
don't give up on the anglebox just yet, it may just turn up. I remember a story about a guys TR5 (or was it 6? or was it an MG??) that reappeared in a lock up garage 15 years or so after it was stolen.
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.
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Oct 22, 2006 23:28:07 GMT
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Further to the last post. Just last year a guy in the US was reunited with his late 1960s Corvette that had been stolen 30+ years ago. The car had been stolen in New York, and then turned up in Los Angeles when it was about to be shipped abroad.
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1995 Range Rover 4.0 1995 BMW 320i Saloon 1989 BMW 325i Touring 1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 1991 Mercedes 190e 1970 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1966 Valiant 200 Custom 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
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Oct 24, 2006 14:28:56 GMT
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and the Swedish guy who'd bought it lost something like $30,000 he'd paid for it in good faith!
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Oct 24, 2006 17:35:49 GMT
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I`m pretty sure it was a TR6, the guy restored it as well.
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