Got a question regarding older stolen cars

[Hylton]

A similar true life incident occured here not 5 miles from my house. Here's what happened:

I live out in the country side with farmers and horse breeders. Basically the roads are fairly quiet. Some guy was driving down a road in my area about 8 years ago and noticed a very clean looking 1972 Mercedes Benz SL parked on the side of the road with no plates on it. He pulled over to get a good look at the car. It had less than 2,000 miles on it and was mint! The guy called the cops from his truck and waited for them. They came and ran the VIN. Nothing came up. No owner, no stolen report, nothing. The cops then said we will have to tow it and then do some investigative work. The guy said fine but I get first dibs on the car. The cops agreed. The car then went to the tow truck companies storage facility. After a few months, the cops found out that the car was stolen out of Boston, Mass in 1972 and somewhere, somehow the car ended uphere and sat in storage for almost 25 years! The police also gave the tow truck company the name of the insurance company who handled the claim.

Being the fine greedy entrepeneur he was, the Tow truck guy decided he wanted the car and so told the insurance company that they owed him $2,000 for storage but he would so graciously accept the car in exchange for the storage costs. The ins. company agreed since the case had been settled decades before and were not interested in having to sell a car and payout more on a previously settled claim. As Kim can tell you, they are the first to say that they are not in the car sales business. The original guy who found the car was pissed! He thought that he had been swindled out of something which he had found first. He sued the Tow truck company and lost.