20 replies to this topic

[Doug Nye]

Seen this?  Was the car recovered????  

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31755960

 

DCN

[Gary C]

Not that I've heard, Doug, it's still missing. Just the other week, here at home in Shepperton, we had a 1959 XK150 stolen from the owners' garage. He'd restored it himself some 20-odd years ago and was a part of the family. I used to see it all the time in the HIgh Street and at Brooklands too. It was wheeled out of their home garage and (I presume) trailered off.....it's not been heard / seen of since.

[AAGR]

A Mexico worth £120,000 ? Don't be ridiculous ....

 

AAGR

[Vitesse2]

Well, it's not exactly bog standard - even allowing for the fact that it's a Mexico. According to the owner it featured a Takara race-tuned 5 litre TVR V8 - he reckons a build from scratch would now be £80K.

 

http://www.pistonhea...c.asp?t=1490504

 

Obviously stolen to order, probably for a foreign buyer. I'd be looking for it somewhere east of Suez ...

[Allan Lupton]

DVLA still has it as 1600cc so best not find it as they might take an interest in the modifications.

Can't see how a Escort-based special is "worth" so much - cost of manufacture maybe, but price . . .

[Fatgadget]

..And they left that Porker? 

[Vitesse2]

DVLA still has it as 1600cc so best not find it as they might take an interest in the modifications.

As it's old enough to be exempt under the classic car rule, would they worry that much? I notice the MOT ran out in May though!

[BRG]

Trackspeed (just down the road from Connaught House in Send incidentally) had a bunch of interesting cars in the showroom - a Porsche Carrera RS (replica?) an original Thunderbird and one of the recent retro versions, a MG TD and so on.  But they never seem to sell any of them.  That Mexico was there for well over a year.  After the raid, all the other cars were removed to safety but they are all back again now, apart from the Mex which is now doubtless broken and the bits sold off.

Edited by BRG, 24 July 2015 - 15:49.

[David Birchall]

They appeared to hit the Porsche on the way out so they were not too worried about keeping the car intact-almost certainly sold off for parts.
Why not take the Porsche, unless they knew it to be a replica?

[wolf sun]

Why not take the Porsche, unless they knew it to be a replica?

 

I thought the same thing. In terms of angle, the Escort was certainly easier to tow out though, wasn't it?

[Lee Nicolle]

A Mexico worth £120,000 ? Don't be ridiculous ....

 

AAGR

Agreed, the owner may well have spent the money. That does not make a hot rod worth the money.

IF it was a true Mexico it was so modified to be comparitivly worthless. I suspect though like most just another mockup.

Still sad though to see someones labor of love stolen, whatever it is or worth.

[Derwent Motorsport]

Sadly this is getting worse this year. A couple of weeks ago a yellow TR6 was stolen from the public car park at a classic show near Penrith and then last night a race car in its trailer was stolen from the car park at a Travel Lodge at Douglas on the M74 near to the Kames spritn circuit where it was to be racing today. Over the winter a couple or well prepared rally Escorts were stolen in Scotland, both planned attacks in that it involved breaking into premises and moving other cars.

Details of the red OMS stolen last night here:

*HELP* *NOT FOR SALE* *STOLEN*
My god father Sandy Donaldson, god mother Lorna Renshaw and my mum and dad are all down at Khames Sprint this weeekend.
Sandy and Lorna decided they would stay in the hotel last night instead of the campervan, everything was at the Premier Inn hotel which is based 20 minutes away from Khames.. When they all woke up this morning his trailer with the car on it has been stolen! We're wanting to catch them as quickly as possible. They've decided they're coming back up the road today.
The trailer is a Silver inclosed Les Mutch Trailer, reg that was on it is SS08MZJ, the car that is in it is a red OMS, pictures of car bellow..
Please share and help? If you know of anything police in Glasgow know and if you could message/call me my number is 07969288338 that would be fantastic.
Message to all racers, be careful as this trailer was locked on a back of a vehicle

[Fatgadget]

Should an incident like this really be a surprise?..I remember years ago Andy Dawson's works loaned RS1800 KHK 983 N apparently with trick de-dion Aston Martin based rear suspension getting knicked never to be seen again...

[Robin Fairservice]

This Jowett Short 2 was stolen in January 2011 and hasn't been found yet.  The thieves broke through locked iron gates to steal it. If you have any information please report to by the West Midlands police on 0345 113 5000 (Reference 20-SW-6923K-11)

[AAGR]

Anorak's Corner. The stolen Andy Dawson car was actually an RS1600, XPU 220L. It was parked outside a motel before the Forest of Dean Rally of January 1975. The 'low life' had acquired an ignition key (apparently all Boreham cars used the same key in those days ....), fired it up during the night, and drove away.....

[nicanary]

As I understand it, some of these cars are "stolen to order". I can see what could be done with an Escort rally-prepared car, broken down into parts etc., but a Jowett ??????

 

Who needs one so desperately?

[BRG]

The 'low life' had acquired an ignition key (apparently all Boreham cars used the same key in those days)

 

Effectively all Mark 1 Escorts used the same key.  I recall being flagged down one morning on the way to work by two coppers.  I wondered what I had done, only to find a rather embarrassed PC asking if they could borrow my key as they had locked themselves out of their panda car for the third time that week and they didn't want to have to tell their sergeant that they had done it again!

 

Mind you, Minis were no better.  I came out of the pub one night and got into my white Cooper S, started the engine and then looked with surprise as the radio that I hadn't got came on.  Then I realised that my car was parked in front of me.  I quietly got out, relocked the car  and crept away in my own 'S'.

Edited by BRG, 26 July 2015 - 11:49.

[Terry Walker]

For years in the 30s and 40s many British cars had the lock number on the outside... all you had to do was print a letterhead Joe's Garage, All Repairs, and write to the lock company for a complete set of keys. Instant access to just about any parked car.

 

A guy called Donald Mackenzie, an Aussie soldier turned post-war spiv, wrote his hilarious memoirs after a stint in a UK jail for this gag, among many others,  I wish I still had my copy. While in stir he decided that writing about crime was more sensible than actually committing it, and later made a good living writing crime novels

[GreenMachine]

A guy called Donald Mackenzie, an Aussie soldier turned post-war spiv, ...

Barry's dad, I presume, with a pedigree like that.

[terry mcgrath]

I wonder whether you actually mean XK120 roadster chassis number 660161 stolen from a shed in Ballarat in march 2002.
The friendly but stupid neighbors helped the thieves load the non running car onto a trailer!!
If it is an XK150 in Shepparton it is a car that I have no recored of being stolen and if you can supply details I can make sure the info is forward to the various Jaguar Clubs
terry

Not that I've heard, Doug, it's still missing. Just the other week, here at home in Shepperton, we had a 1959 XK150 stolen from the owners' garage. He'd restored it himself some 20-odd years ago and was a part of the family. I used to see it all the time in the HIgh Street and at Brooklands too. It was wheeled out of their home garage and (I presume) trailered off.....it's not been heard / seen of since.

[Gary C]

Terry...........Shepperton, as in Middlesex in the UK.