Stolen Jaguar XKE reunited with owner after 46 years

[markjay]

BBC News - Stolen E-Type Jaguar to be returned to owner - 46 years on

 

[Chalpkin]

BBC News - Stolen E-Type Jaguar to be returned to owner - 46 years on

So I should still hold out hope for my old 1978 RD200, 1980 GT250X7, 1981 RD350LC, then!

 

[jotter22]

So I should still hold out hope for my old 1978 RD200, 1980 GT250X7, 1981 RD350LC, then!

Wouldn't hold out too much hope for the X7 it probably killed the scroat that stole it!

Tony.

 

[Chalpkin]

Wouldn't hold out too much hope for the X7 it probably killed the scroat that stole it!

Tony.

You're not wrong there, Great in a straight line but show it a corner and no matter what I did to it (Koni shocks and a steering damper), it did it's best to kill me.
The LC was a revelation!

 

[markjay]

So I should still hold out hope for my old 1978 RD200, 1980 GT250X7, 1981 RD350LC, then!

You had these three bikes stolen from you??

 

[Chalpkin]

You had these three bikes stolen from you??

Yes, the RD200 dissappeard from outside my parents house one morning, it had a cover over it, I first thought I had left it somewhere else! The X7 was bought to replace it. That was stolen 12 months later from outside my then girlfriends (now my wife!), bedsit in Tooting Bec, I then bought the LC, I can still remember the day I rode it away from the dealers, I only had it for two weeks before that too was nicked from outside the bedsit, although I did recover it a couple of days later (minus a full tank of petrol and a mashed ignition switch), then 15 months later it dissappeard for good despite having then a Kriptonite u-lock and a then state of the art Oxford number plate alarm.
Now the R1 is alarmed, ground anchored and cctv watched!

 

[Dieselman]

Interesting comment from the article.

A US Customs and Border Protection official saw it had been reported stolen in June - two days into its journey to the Netherlands, where there is a high demand for vintage cars.

I thought the NL classic car scene was dying off.

 

[Charles Morgan]

They have a similar scheme to here on tax on older classics, so those remain fine, but the younger 80s cars that used to get exemptions if running LPG are now taxed as though new - so that is the area of the Dutch scene that has been badly affected.