<VV> Re: secret serial number - others ?

[airvair]

Lesson for us all. When finding something that is stolen, notify the
authorities FIRST, not the "owner".

-Mark

Charles Lee at Proper Pro Per wrote:
> 
> Recently, her in So Cal, the cops found a 1968 Vette that was stolen in 1969, along with a similar vintage Harley (?) and returned both to their "rightful owners" !
> 
> As for my '69, I know the engine has been removed, as I found it in a "show car" in the 1980's (a Custom Kharmann-Ghia) at the New York Custom Car Show at the NY Columbus Circle Coliseum.
> 
> The car did have the requisite "9w703328" (my full VIN was 10979w703328) and when I mistakenly blurted out, "That engine is from MY car !" before calling authorities, the car was removed from the show before the authorities got there.
> 
> I later found the engine in a fellow Corvair club member's garage (Smithtown, NY) when he bragged that he had a 1969 140 engine.
> 
> It, too, disappeared when he discovered I was looking for it.
> 
> Now, to find the body, only to have it disappear, too, unless I am more discreet next time.
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: LonzoVair at aol.com
>   To: chaz at ProperProPer.com
>   Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:39 AM
>   Subject: Re: <VV> Re: secret serial number - others ?
> 
>   In a message dated 9/15/2006 12:56:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, chaz at ProperProPer.com writes:
>     If I ever find my 1969 Monza convert (stolen in 1969) "reincarnated," I'd
>     like to be able to know it was mine, even if they changed the standard VIN
>     plate.
> 
>   Well, the engine has 9W70???? on it, and that is the serial number of the car... since the "7" was only used in 69, that would be the only Corvair engine with your numbers on it.
> 
>   Don't give up all hope... back in the late 1980s my brother was visited by the State Police after tracing a car to him that he bought in 1979... it was a 1955 Chevy Bel Air with almost every option available, including a/c... he got it from the son of the County Judge Executive, who'd bought it from someone else... my brother put leather interior and a $2000 paint job (1980 dollars) on it before selling it a few years later... the car had been stolen in 1958, in this state, and was sold here and there until the guy my brother sold it to in '83 decided to sell it out of state in '89... the numbers on the title did NOT match the numbers on the car... it was off by one digit.
>   No charges were filed.... but from what I understand he did flush a lot of marijuana down the toilet when they came knocking on his door...
>   :-)
>   He's since grown out of it...
>   Later,
>   Lonzo
> 
>   Lon Anderson in White Mills, KY
>   CORSA, Corvanatics, Derby City Corvair, Central Ky Corvair
>   Quart Low Quarterly Editor
>   1961 Greenbrier 110/pg
>   1963 Greenbrier 110/4spd
>   1964 700 sedan 95/pg
>   1969 Monza 110/pg