Man Reunited with Stolen Corvette After 39 Yrs

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The wording in the article is kind of funny, but I took it to mean that it had only been driven 12K miles since it was reported stolen. The article does not say if he had theft insurance on it at the time it was stolen, so who knows if any insurance company was involved back then or not. You would assume there was on a car only 5 yrs old, but you never know.

It seems to me like there have been a rash of these old theft recoveries lately...I wonder if there has been an improvement in access to some national database recently

EDIT: oops, I see I was typing at the same time Jim provided many pertinent facts

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the car was worth maybe $1000 in 1970

no one wanted an FI (they were being yanked off and carbs put on), no one wanted an "old" Corvette, the Sharks were out, everyone wanted one of those

regarding the databases, it appears so ...