[Charley Lillard]

Years ago a good friend bought a 58 Fuel Injected Vette that needed restoring. It was missing the FI unit but orig engine was still in it. He stripped it to bare glass, body off frame. frame stripped. Two years into it the Highway patrol knocks on his door and asks if he has 58 Vette with Viv # ****. He says yes. Cop says it is stolen. Sal says no it is in the garage. Cop says orig owner has been out of state for two years and when he came home his Vette and 57 Porsche Speedster were both stolen out of storage containers. He had bought both brand new. Porsche had been totally restored and had sold for 70K a couple times. Whoever stole them thought he had died so they never bothered to mess with the vins so they were easy to find. He got a like new Porsche back and he came to the impound yard and saw the Vette all apart and didn't know what to do with it. I bought it from him and my friend that lost it filed suit against the local Ford dealer that was involved in the lien sale that got the cars titled.