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    Stolen Ferrari recovered....after 28 years!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68466657


    The amusing thing, for me, about this article is the name of the PC interviewed - Mike Pilbeam.

    For those in the know, his namesake is a very famous race car engineer/designer!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mouse View Post
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68466657


    The amusing thing, for me, about this article is the name of the PC interviewed - Mike Pilbeam.
    Upon reading that it was Gerhard Berger's car, my first thought was of the old Ferrari/Mcdonalds joke

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    Reminded me of the original Bond DB5 stolen in Boca Raton

    https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/j...nd-1234656447/

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    28 years ? Fairly typical response time nowadays

    There was an F50 that was stolen back in 2003 in Imola which turned up in Canada in 2019

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/19/u...rnd/index.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by TKH View Post
    Reminded me of the original Bond DB5 stolen in Boca Raton

    https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/j...nd-1234656447/
    There’s an excellent podcast about that, discussing the theft, potential ways it happened etc. voiced over by Liz Hurley no-less. Very interesting, The Great James Bond car robbery if interested.

    And I saw the recovered Ferrari story this morning, very interesting it took that long. I guess just traded privately with no real investigation of history.

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    Stolen from Imola with the keys left in it, Berger actually chased the car but lost it, apparently stolen by the Italian mafia and exported straight to Japan along with the a 355 stolen at the same time.

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    PC Mike Pilbeam said: "The stolen Ferrari - close to the value of £350,000 - was missing for more than 28 years before we managed to track it down in just four days."


    Hilarious... blowing about tracking it down in just 4 days.... after 28 years of nothing. Hardly something to be showing off about!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyE View Post


    Hilarious... blowing about tracking it down in just 4 days.... after 28 years of nothing. Hardly something to be showing off about!
    Not really, why would they be investigating for 28 years?

    Wasn't stolen here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingstepper View Post
    Not really, why would they be investigating for 28 years?

    Wasn't stolen here.
    Exactly, Car sat here in the UK for a number of years but was never registered, no reason for the police to be actively investigating, it reappeared on the radar and they acted.

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    You would imagine the car went to Ferrari for some work, or to be booked in for work at Classiche, and as soon as the serial number was put through the system the alarm bells started ringing. The police were probably acting on information from Ferrari, not solving crime of their own initiative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Foxy100 View Post
    You would imagine the car went to Ferrari for some work, or to be booked in for work at Classiche, and as soon as the serial number was put through the system the alarm bells started ringing. The police were probably acting on information from Ferrari, not solving crime of their own initiative.
    Exactly this; spot on.

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