[JAGNUTS] FW: [E-Type] BREAKING NEWS! STOLEN CARS SIGHTED! Long live the internet!

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-e-type at jag-lovers.org [mailto:owner-e-type at jag-lovers.org] On
> Behalf Of PeterCrespin
> Sent: July 3, 2012 12:58 PM
> To: e-type at jag-lovers.org
> Subject: [E-Type] BREAKING NEWS! STOLEN CARS SIGHTED! Long live the
> internet!
>
> Thanks to the wonders of the internet and Jaguaristas spreading the word,
> it
> seems my cars are in North Yorkshire.
>
> Letitia Mace who runs the Jaguar newsletter xclusively-jaguar.com is one
> of
> many who have kindly put out an APB for the cars and a member fo that
> gorup
> David Bell emailed back to say he saw a blue car like mine being worked on
> and pushed hurriedly back in to a barn as he drove past. He left his name
> and I just called him (and the police). Here's what he said...bearing in
> mind dark blue is not a rare colour for E-types in the UK so I wasn't
> getting my hopes up.
>
> He saw a blue car being pushed back into a barn. It hada silver hard top.
> That's mine, surely? The top had wrapping all over it - bingo! That would
> be
> the shippers doing as I had pointedo ut it was brand new paint. Blue car,
> silver hardtop in wrapping - bigo!
>
> He said there were other cars and it was partly behind an old white
> Mercedes
> sports car. I said that wasn't mine but they did steal two cars - the
> other
> one was a red FHC. He said there was a blakc Toyota pick-up with some
> E-type
> parts in it, including ap iar of coupe doors in red. I said mine was red
> but
> he said they were scruffy - YES, mine were scruffy!
>
> It has to be my two cars although, tragically, it sounds like the FHC is
> stripped and no doubt all those original undisturbed Browns Lane fasteners
> are lying the mud of some barn and goodness knows what has happened to the
> immacualte original interios vinyl etc. I don't know whether to laugh or
> cry
> :-(
>
> Anyway, I contacted the Cambridgeshire police and David has contacted the
> Ripon police a couple of hundred miles north, so hopefully the parts and
> my
> OTS will be recovered. I will keep you all posted of course.
>
> Technical question for Carl...
>
> If I lose two intact cars and receive back two piles of parts I am
> obviously
> not in the position I was in before the theft. Can I ask for the cars to
> be
> put back together or do get a lesser payout and the piles of parts as
> salvage, or what?
>
> Pete
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