Sounds like you are closing one chapter and beginning another. Every Spit
has its own story of restoration to glory; this one is extremely unique.
I'm glad you pursued the restoration and that you shared it with the list.
Looking forward to hearing about your future adventures.
Terry B
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> From: Fred Griffiths[SMTP:griffco@mail.cadvision.com]
> Reply To: Fred Griffiths
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:17 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Mk IV is legal again
>
>
> I'd just like to inform the listers that Kimbell the Fugitive is now
> entirely legitimate, legal and exonerated.
>
> You may remember the thread "Hypothetical Question" sometime last year
> about registering a stolen car..... Well, today I finally got the Out
> of Privince/Write Off inspection done, and got my 1971 MK IV legally
> registered with its own commission number - FK 5061L.
>
> It has been on the road as a 1974 1500 with different comm number for a
> couple of years. But when I realized it had the wrong commission number
> for a MK IV (FM....instead of FK....) I contacted BMIHT and got its
> original. Only to find that it had been "written off" after being
> stolen in British Columbia in 1986. My 18 year old son bought it in
> 1991, but died before getting it roadworthy and I had left it for quite
> a number of years.
>
> After finding out its "written off" status, I had it viewed by an RCMP
> member of the Auto Theft Unit, and he contacted the insurance company.
> I paid them a nominal sum to obtain legal rights to it. Only because
> the theft was so long ago (13 years), and the remains of the car were
> worth so little by the time the RCMP viewed it was I able to get the
> insurance company to sell it to me for a reasonable price.
>
> Now I can drive it, pretty well restored, proud of its early comm
> number, actually made December 31, 1970 according to BMIHT. And tonight
> with the temperature at 17C my wife and I went to DQ just to buy an ice
> cream in celebration.
>
> Now Kimbell the Fugitive needs a new name!
> Cheers, Fred
>
> --
> Fred & Wendy Griffiths,
> Calgary, Canada
> http://www.cadvision.com/griffco/index.htm
> mailto: griffco@cadvision.com
>
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