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Post by sixcylinder on Jan 14, 2011 20:33:59 GMT
Mk10 Jaguar STOLEN My wife’s beloved 1966 Mk10 Jaguar 4.2 Automatic has been stolen 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, 07971 052025.  |
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Post by Guest on Jan 20, 2011 19:06:50 GMT
If you think its gone to the track then attend a few meetings and see if it turns up you don't know you might even enjoy the day out
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Post by sixcylinder on May 13, 2011 17:22:09 GMT
Good news - Bad news Back in January my wife had her Jaguar MK10 project car stolen, which she had for 19 years. After posting it on many forums and making local enquires we got a call to say that someone had unknowingly bought her car and arranged to meet us in a car park but never showed. After further enquires a friend got a call to say we could have it back for £250, half what he had paid. A few more days passed and today the friend was called again to say it was dumped in a lay-by. The Good news is she has got it back the bad news is a lot of damage has been done. Chris  |
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Post by elmotheewokking on May 13, 2011 18:11:07 GMT
Is it not possible to trace the number?
Iirc, even if they called off a phone with a hidden number, the operator can still find out who it is for the Police...
Sorry to see it in such a state.
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Post by trouble2010 on May 13, 2011 18:29:28 GMT
At least its back
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Post by skoda_norman on May 13, 2011 22:16:37 GMT
That's painful. At least you've got it back. Is your wife prepared to "start over" with it?
Removing the glass and cutting back the wings; is that not banger racing prep?
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Post by RetroMat on May 13, 2011 22:18:51 GMT
excellent news you've got it back, but wings cut up like that? looks like it was about to go round your local close-contact racing circuit...  Edit: what he said above ^ |
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Post by skinnylew on May 13, 2011 23:36:25 GMT
Glad to hear you got it back. I am so very surprised to see it looking as if it was prepared for some kind of contact 'motorsport'   |
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Post by crazymonkey on May 14, 2011 15:53:27 GMT
I instantly thought bangers as soon as I saw no windows and cut wing as well.
may be in a bit of a state but at least its still looking like a car. I bet that the "victim" who bought it for £500 had something to do with stealing it, by saying that they get £250 out of it. common scam Ive heard about. Might not be, might have been an innocent buyer but I would have been wary with no logbook.
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Post by cornish on May 14, 2011 18:37:41 GMT
Not all banger drivers are theifs , I would say 99% work hard to fund a sport they love.
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Post by Minikidx14 on May 14, 2011 19:07:38 GMT
Couldnt of been one of the top drivers, Wings not cut very well |
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Post by moditup on May 14, 2011 19:32:34 GMT
Looks like its been well stripped, be interesting to know what happened to all the parts ?
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Post by crazymonkey on May 14, 2011 22:51:32 GMT
Not all banger drivers are theifs , I would say 99% work hard to fund a sport they love. God I know thats true because I'm friends with a lot of banger drivers and none of them have ever used stolen cars. But like you say cornish 99%, theres always that 1%. Might have been a true story about innocent buyer but the fact that after they said they wanted £250 for it it was dumped sounds a bit suspicious. Might not be by all means, just sounds a bit iffy. |
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Post by dungbug on May 18, 2011 21:32:17 GMT
Destined for the track without a doubt, I'm not wading into the argument about bangers being/not being thieves though.
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Post by miniellis on May 24, 2011 16:23:34 GMT
Glad its back but it seems a bit odd how a friend knew about it ?
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Post by Bozwell on May 24, 2011 16:56:29 GMT
is it repairable? are the bits off the car still around?  personally I'd get it cubed and post pictures as a two finger jesture to the git that knicked it. there are some nice MOT'd ones out there that'll be cheaper to buy than restore this one but I do understand that there will be sentimental value having owned the car for so long. |
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Post by mini-mad-nick on May 24, 2011 20:12:37 GMT
Looks like its been re sprayed aswell :s could always try and find out who races in green round your local area and go from there perhaps :S but glad its been found, do you know what your going to do with it now that the damage has been done?
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Post by miniellis on May 24, 2011 21:43:31 GMT
Looks like its been re sprayed aswell :s could always try and find out who races in green round your local area and go from there perhaps :S but glad its been found, do you know what your going to do with it now that the damage has been done? it may just be an undercoat but look out for the parts as they will have removed the glass whole to sell it as well as the headlights etc. Our friend here in suffolk bangers jags but he buys them fair and square and I hate pointing a finger but that is classic banger prep with the wings cut. My guess is they got wind of you launching a big 'enquiry' and panicked! glad shes home though xxx |
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Post by rmad on May 25, 2011 7:50:58 GMT
Good to see it back, even if the condition is somewhat undesirable. Not all banger drivers are theifs , I would say 99% work hard to fund a sport they love. What are the 99% doing about this. As a moderator on here I end up deleting comments at the request of banger racers who hate the fact that when a Granada/A60 or Jag gets nicked the finger points at them. The trouble is that the pointy finger often ends up being right. If this car had turned up at the track would the 99% have stopped the driver racing, banned him from future events and called the police? In a close-knit community like banger racing I find it hard to believe that no-one knows who was prepping this car. |
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Post by jordanisace on May 26, 2011 17:04:16 GMT
sadly the 1% of idiots who pinch cars,are also the 1% thatl burn your place down if they think someone has grassed on them.
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