Here is an interesting article from my local paper: Car stolen 30 years ago pulled from west Cobb lake. No owner is found yet

I'm sure JohnFromStaffs would not be amused.



1954 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith with (putting it mildly) custom bodywork

And surprise, it's not in the US, it's in Toronto.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/08/22/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1954-rolls-royce-silver-wraith/

In Bavaria the was this bizarre case some years ago:

https://m.augsburger-allgemeine.de/neuburg/Fall-Rupp-Unschuldig-verurteilte-Familie-scheitert-endgueltig-mit-Klage-id36322222.html

Family members were prisoned for some years after the had confessed at the police, that they have killed the father, cutted him in pieces and feeded the pigs with them.

But years later the dead body was found, sitting in the guy's Mercedes 230E, sunken in the River Donau.
He wasn't killed, he died by an accident. He was driving the Benz totally drunken into the river.

It was a justice scandal, because the Bavarian police and justice are known for sometimes strange way of doing their job.


And I remember annother story:
some years ago there was an article on my classic car magazine about a supersports car (maybe a Ferrari 365 B Cabriolet), found in the River Rhine - with a TÜV-sticker from 1972.
It was unknown, if it was a theft or an insurance fraud.
Afterwards I haven't read any more about thid incident, so it's unknown, if the mystery was solved.


When I tried to find pics from the recovery of ca. a dozen cars, stolen many years ago out off the River Main (IIRC I've posted the pics here a time ago), I've found thid actual video:

https://youtu.be/jMc0qtD1nuI

Well, not only thieves are throwing cars into rivers.

Is it such a rare case in Britain, that cars were broken off an dismantled for parts?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9805963/creamfields-cars-stripped-of-wheels/

In Germany it's quite common. Actually BMW-navis and -airbags are mostly popular.

Three weeks ago it happened even here in my peaceful village.
But something was very strange: I had my Vectra parked on the street, with open doors and even open windows (due the heat, the doggy smell and the slightly mould smell, caused by a leak under the windscreen)
- and noone touched it!?!


The story about the Porsches, smeared by paint in Notting Hill, is quite odd - isn't it an area, where masses of higg priced cars are standing around everywhere?

Normally envy-caused vandalism is usual at poor, deprived locations.
We have it in Germany sometimes, too, but I never heard, that such happens in rich people's quarters.


By the way: I will avoid to travel with my
K 70 into the "Zone", the former DDR
- because of that new sticker on it:
https://m.facebook.com/DiePARTEINiedersachsen/photos/a.366910706686626/105451414- 7926275/?type=3&source=57&__tn__=EHH-R

Here are 18 Great Cars That Were Killed Before They Could Succeed and unusual A Teenage Kansas Farmer Built This Diesel Off-Road Corvette And It's A Stroke Of Genius

Here are list of The shortest-lived cars in America

Next Wednesday you can, if you are lucky, purchase two Lamborghinis for the half price:

https://www.t-online.de/tv/news/panorama/id_86518366/nrw-versteigert-protz-autos-der-clans.html

Both confiscated by the authorities at criminal family gangs.

There was annother auction, where confiscated sports cars as Lamborghini, Koenigsegg and McLaren were sold:

https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/sportwagen/schweiz-versteigert-beschlagnahmte-supersportwagen-2019/

For $2000, this could be yours, but why?:

https://jalopnik.com/someone-built-a-limo-out-of-two-tiny-ford-festivas-and-1838664927

" Can i have some kind of upgrade too ? " -- Little 63 HP engine..

This Daihatsu has quite a journey behind it: from Japan to California, then imported to Russia:

Mecum Auctions shared this on Instagram, will be in next week's auction in Chicago:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B3vAU0uDKlB/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

https://www.mecum.com/lots/CH1019-389019/1966-ford-mustang-limousine/

Where did you get the story from? I am not that sure the Tanto of that age can be legally registered in California.

plate comes back as 2001 RAV4, still in the family but...

Sometimes, showing signs of affluence (or of bad taste?) should really be avoided
• German police seize driver's reflective gold Porsche Panamera because it's 'too SHINY' and could blind other motorists
• Excessively gaudy golden BMW X5 gets banned from Düsseldorf

I think I'd choose a Donk over any of those.

Mustang with an identity crisis



when the International MXT or that Topkick pick-up truck are just not enough

if VW and Dodge shared the Neon...