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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2079   
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That is very bizarre, but actually ‘good’ news.
Would you want to buy it back for sentimental reasons? Were there any criminal proceedings as a result of its recovery? |
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23rd Dec 2023 9:01am |
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| Organised Chaos Member Since: 20 Dec 2008 Location: Chesterfield Posts: 56 
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The insurance company did ask if I wanted it back, but not knowing what condition it was in as the vehicle would be 22 years old now, it could be a rot box or could be that someone as spent thousands on keeping it on the road.
I wonder how it was picked up as stolen, was it involved in an accident, was it caught without tax or MOT, as whoever stole it changed the ID of the vehicle and was it only picked up as stolen either by the engine number or VIN number. We shall see what develops after the NFU as recovered it from the recovery firm. |
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23rd Dec 2023 12:46pm |
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| macfrank Member Since: 05 Nov 2015 Location: somewhere in the north Posts: 1061  
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 Surprised the police still had the records. Has it perhaps been standing in their stolen goods yard for the last 16 years and they've now found the papers behind a filing cabinet?  |
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23rd Dec 2023 4:14pm |
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| excossack Member Since: 22 Feb 2012 Location: North West Posts: 5842 
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Maybe worth a view before you do decide to say no thanks. I think I would just out of interest. 1999 Defender TD5 110
Regards John M0VAZ Econet Station 48 no clock |
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23rd Dec 2023 4:28pm |
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| Organised Chaos Member Since: 20 Dec 2008 Location: Chesterfield Posts: 56
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Got the phone number of the recovery yard where its stored so might give them a ring when they open after Christmas.
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23rd Dec 2023 5:45pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5138
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you will be surprised on what shows up after all these years, i remember reading in the paper about some park down south getting dredged, or something a long those lines. When they came to do the job, they dragged a fare few cars out of the pond. I think they ran the reg on one of the cars that was a capri. The results had come back, that it had stolen from the owners drive way back in the 90s. So that would have been fun for the owner to hear that his capri had been found a lot of years later. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it! |
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23rd Dec 2023 7:13pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5138
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I would go and have a look to see what the story is with it, also just to say you have had a look. 
id be on the fence buying it back, due to what may have been done with it etc. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it! |
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23rd Dec 2023 7:15pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17320 
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I you're really lucky some poor sod has bought it in good faith from the thief and had it fully rebuilt!
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23rd Dec 2023 7:18pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5138
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blackwolf some local arsehole was doing that with defenders, and he was found out, he had been putting genuine IDs on stolen Defenders, after tarting them up. Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it! |
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23rd Dec 2023 7:21pm |
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| Whirly90 Member Since: 01 Sep 2016 Location: Ampshire Posts: 405  
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My 90 was stolen about 2001-ish, things were quiet for a while until it was spotted with a stolen JCB. The JCB put it's bucket through the back wall of a village post office, scooped up the safe and dropped it into my 90. Things then went quiet again. The police contacted me about 3 years later and said that somebody had applied for a log book for it. I explained that i had been paid by the insurance company so it belonged to them but i'd be interested to hear what happened. It's been MOT'd under it's original ID since 2006 but i was never contacted about it.
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23rd Dec 2023 10:49pm |
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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2079
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You are absolutely certain that you weren’t driving your 90 when the JCB emptied its bucket…
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24th Dec 2023 9:48am |
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| Whirly90 Member Since: 01 Sep 2016 Location: Ampshire Posts: 405
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Hold on i'll check my bank account...........no, it defintely wasn't me
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24th Dec 2023 2:32pm |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3667 
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24th Dec 2023 6:37pm |
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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2079
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A likely story M’Lord. |
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26th Dec 2023 10:05am |
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