Yea... Lets all celebrate a 16yo kid is now probably forever burned on muscle cars. It might be Illegal but in what moral world would anyone be happy that the kid lost thousands of dollars on parts, all for those parts to be given to the original owner who did not buy them?
And shame on the OP here, the feds and any local LEO's and DA if they go after this kid for taking off the parts that he bought (as long as they did not damage the car in any way).
Based on what the OP said, I question that statement that he went there with 10k to give the father/son. Why not tell them up front?
Here he says he does not want to deal with the current person:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: combackcamaro</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="text-decoration: underline">Detective ask me to call man whom has my car, see if we can work out some kinda agreement.</span> That he had invested alot of $ into restoring. When he purchased no transmission, gas tank, fuel lines, steering wheel, drive shaft, gear shift, dashboard, rear end,& list goes on. Hum sounds me like the theift made some big bucks! <span style="font-weight: bold">I told detective I just want my car back</span>.</div></div>
Here he says that it is too bad for the kid, he gets all of the investments into the car, even those he KNOWS were not on the car when stolen and bought by the dad/kid:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: combackcamaro</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> sadly for him thank god for me is any investments put into car he the purchaser has to go back after the seller.</div></div>
Rich