'Stolen 1958 Ferrari Reunited To Its Owner After 15 Years'

Stolen 1958 Ferrari Reunited To Its Owner After 15 Years

By Tony Stark at 09/05/08 21:24

Most of the time, stolen cars are not recovered. The thieves are faster than we thought. Before the police have them detected, they are gone. The cars were moved to another place, or even smuggled to another country.

Just recently, we heard the story of a stolen very rare and expensive 1958 Ferrari 250 PF reunited with its owner after 15 long years. Whoah, that's some good news right there.

The stolen Ferrari has a staggering price of US$4,000,000 but when it was bought by someone in 2000, it only costs him US$550,000. Initially, that would have been a very suspicious deal. But the buyer seem not to notice that, or perhaps chose not to notice that super low price. The car managed to cope with the American highways by acquiring a fraudulent VIN and passes on a series of auctions.

The car was recovered in a private Connecticut car collection with the help of The Connecticut State Police Motor Vehicle Task Force, Connecticut State Police Auto Theft Task Force, the Interpol and the Ferrari's Seiss owner. The car was stolen in Spain, and for 15 years of being lost, it was transported via overseas car smuggling.

I wonder if the Interpol is working on my sister's case who had her car stolen when she's still living in Australia. It was a 2002 Holden Statesman and was stolen while visiting Melbourne.

She said she calls the police everyday for an update for the first 3 months since her car was carnapped in 2004. At night their hotline is down. When fortunate enough to talk to them, all they can tell her is that they are working on it and will give her a call for an update. Well, the police never called back. She has resorted into buying a new car and just considered her Statesman a give-away for the holidays.

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