Vette stolen in '69 returned to owner!

[C3RVETTE]

CHP Finds Corvette Stolen In 1969


POSTED: 4:29 pm PST January 10, 2006
UPDATED: 6:59 pm PST January 10, 2006

CARSON, Calif. -- A Corvette stolen in January 1969 from a Queens, N.Y. resident was found in a shipping container destined for Sweden by a special unit of the California Highway Patrol, it was announced Tuesday.
The CHP's Foreign Export and Recovery Task Force seized the convertible on Nov. 28, according to Officer Joe Zizi.
Several agencies became involved in extensive research for the original stolen vehicle report and other information on the Corvette, Zizi said.
The owner, Alan Poster, will be reunited with his Corvette next Tuesday at a U.S. Customs facility in Carson.

 

[JOE BYRNE]

They just showed him seeing the car on the evening news....it was in a container being ready to be shipped out of the country....it looked great!

 

[oceangal]

wasnt' that the best story??

here is a bit more info...but why they dont' have a pix of *his* vette is beyond me...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/17/national/main1216695.shtml

 

[JOE BYRNE]

Pretty cool thats for sure!

 

[warren s]

Thats a wonderfull story............But how does he get the car back?
Was the theft never claimed on his insurance back in the days when it was stolen?

Did he just eat the loss and never claim it?

 

[JOE BYRNE]

On AOL earlier it said he paid $6,000 for the car and did not have the money for insurance. He just filed a police report after it was stolen.