Auto Transport

[Mr70]

Kim
I'll bet this truck driver used to steal lawn gnomes,and took pictures showing it around the country as well.
Wish you were Here!

[SamLBInj]

This whole thing is pissing me off and its not even my car
Hopefully if comes in one piece...Ive been through this before and its not fun..

[Born30YrsLate]

Kim...if the car shows up at my place I'll let you know...seriously though this is getting way past rediculous...

[Kim_Howie]

Went from Boonville, Mo. West on I-70 to Odessa to Oak Grove Mo. and now shows it's at Edwardsville Kan.

[njsteve]

Some free legal advice: call your local police and report it stolen NOW! Explain that it's not just a car, its an historic automobile/classic car/TV show prop and worth a bunch of money. With the police report in hand, then contact your local FBI office and ask for the squad that handles cargo theft and ITSMV (Interstate Transportation of Stolen Motor Vehicles). Be persistant with the FBI guys dont just talk to the duty agent and file a report, ask for the person who handles the above mentioned crimes. Usually it only takes one call from them to the shippers and the car gets delivered asap. What these bozos are doing is a common scam where the shippers will just drag you along for weeks and then they demand more money for the car or you never see it again, or they just stop answering your calls. Once the car is in NCIC (the national crime/stolen car database) fax a copy of the police report to the shippers. Then see how fast they car shows up.

Once that car was overdue and there was no sensible explaination (like bad weather) they no longer have your authorization to be possessing that car. The civil violation would be called "conversion". By retaining possession of your car and not giving it to you, they have converted it to their own use. In a civil lawsuit you would then get the punitive damages plus the value of the car. (these types of case used to happen a lot in the past where you'd go to a new car dealer to look at new cars, and give them the keys to your old car for them to evaluate it for a trade in...and they then "lose" your keys, forcing you to hang around for hours on end) That resulted in a bunch of car dealers having to pay a bunch of money in damages to the car owners, who's cars, the Court made them buy. Well, enough rambling for the moment, call the cops now!

[Mr. T]

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call the cops now!

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I would call them as well Kim, especially on a car of this caliber.

[Charley Lillard]

I tried to report my 69 Pace car as stolen a few years ago and they told me it was a civil matter so don't be suprised if you get the same answer. The cops did put a call into Mr Lipke to speed him up but it didn't do any good. I finally had to hire a private investigator to find what My Lipke had done with it. Call the transport Co and let them know if the car does not arrive by Monday you are reporting it stolen.