stolen sc found. sort of.
 

just this afternoon, i told a co-worker how after three weeks, i was really wanting to drive my 911. seriously, 30 seconds later, the call came.

evidently, a WA state trooper saw 'some parts of a car' at the side of the road in south kitsap county. there was enough there that he knew it was a 911.

i am told that in the evidence yard in port orchard, there lies 'about 1/4' of my car. i can't wait until saturday, when i can go look it over.

i want to find the piece of ***** that did this.

I know how it feels...I had my car stolen a few months back. Hopefully you'll be reimbursed for your loss.

justifiable homicide..
ryan

Mik, glad they found your car and sorry about the condition. Hope the ones who did it get caught.

thanks, all. i do not know whether i can pull it off, but for my next trick, i would really like to get ky's 1976 s roller. if i could pull that off and temporarily put a vw engine in it, thereby making kind of a 912, i would be a shoe-in for gruppe b. and all of its privileges...or is it restrictions...?

anyhow. again, i do not have any real details, but the woman from spd who called said that the parts include a door and the roof. roof? was there a sawsall involved, or is the shell just chillin'? i am eager to see.

as for reimbursement: no. long, stupid story. temporarily not covered with comprehensive. stupid.

Tell us briefly the insurance mix-up. Maybe it'll help someone else avoid the same mistake.
(BTW, GruppeB welcomes you and your future Porsche/VW bastard child)

unfortunately, no mix-up. just dumb. i was not aware of insurers like sneed, and my state farm was expensive. i had also priced a couple of other big-national-type insurers, and they were even more expensive. i thought to myself, 'gee, anyone who looks will see that this car is kind of a beater' as i only have on-street parking, and bought it kind of rough in the first place. i dropped the full coverage several months ago.

bad choice.

it may be some time before i emerge in gruppeb, or even behind the wheel of anything besides the surviving audi 5000s. but i am holding out a little hope that enough parts turn up to point toward the bastard(s) who did all this. the kitsap deputy i spoke with told me that they are actually pretty aggressively checking all parts for fingerprints. that surprised and delighted me. hopefully, there will be prints that show that he/she/they have prior convictions.

damn.

Was the car crached or was it dumped there?

mmmm, yeah, they tell you that.

parts were dumped. when a deputy tells me that one of the items a clerk listed is 'the roof', i wonder what i will find. chopped off roof, or the shell of the car...?

damn, mik..guess no chance that your car was a targa 'roof'..had a brand new '84 pontiac trans am stolen from in front of my college dorm in memphis back in '84..thieves stripped simple stuff and set it on fire..i remember how it sucked to go to the junkyard where it had been impounded. damn the luck on the insurance too..sounds like what would happen to me. i've been considering going to full coverage..sounds like i ought to make the jump.
ryan

I'm tryin' to help you, man! Can't imagine.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/228991-lets-buy-mik-911-a.html

Even if they catch the crooks, you think they'll hand you your money back?

I am w/o full coverage also. It's statistics. Unfortunately, if the bad luck hits you, you don't care much about statistics any more!

Hang in there ...

George

Mik, sorry to his this man. we were all looking around the city for your car. everyone please keep on eye on Ebay, etc for Mik's parts. maybe they will get this tosser.

hey, i appreciate everyone having kept an eye out. i just can't get over the fact that this is the ONLY car (911's in general) that i have ever wanted. i am such a motorcycle person, and always have been. but the 911 is passion on four wheels. ****.

george: if they catch them, i expect to get nothing back. i would just hope to get the engine, tranny and wheels. that would be a good enough starting point to jump on a roller.

and a question to everyone: i know that in WA someone has to have something like seven GTA convictions for anything of consequence to happen to them. would i have any chance of gaining anything in a civil suit? could i even file one? i mean, if the guy has a house, a pickup, and a camaro or two, is there not some way to get blood from the turnip?

i have spent the last three weeks getting whiplash, looking up and down every side street and alley. as i discussed with kie earlier today, the only even slightly good thing that i can find in the recovery is that now i do not have to wonder. i do not have to tensely look every which way, hoping for a glimpse of my car driving by one block over, or sticking out of a backyard shed. but meanwhile, disappointment and sadness have turned completely to rage. i am now just so pissed, that someone just decided to take this particular thing that did not belong to them.

added after reflecting: on the other hand, nothing really matters. my five month old daughter learned to giggle today. yeah.

Kids can make you forget or at least put aside everything else!

Good luck and I hope to see you back in the saddle again.

if you haven't already, call all the shops in the area to look out for white body parts, etc, that someone is trying to peddle. MAX RPM in bremerton too. Wagonwerks in shelton. ask them if there are any other shops over there who work on 911s.

John's got a great point, you might want to take it a step further and check out not only Porsche specific shops but smaller body shops that might be more tempted to recieve slick parts on the side............also if that shop has a 911 of you vintage to work on you might keep an eye on them even if they tell you no they haven't seen anything...

I'm sorry to hear about your loss (darn that sounds like a statement made at a funeral). Mik's bad experience is a lesson to us all. Even if you can't afford collision, most insurers will give you comprehensive insurance with your liability. Most times, the Comp is almost nill compared to collision. By the way, Comp also covers fire and windshield damage from stone chips.
Disclaimer: No, I am not an insurance salesman.

Pretty sure a local car thief got busted here when the owner started scouring eBay and found parts of his Audi. eBay told the cops where to find the perp.

As for insur., I don't care what it costs - it's worth it. Everyone hates lawyers and insurance companies until you need one. Writing that check to USAA every 6 mos. and even to Laurel for my DE insur. is a happy occasion for me. Really.

yes - a civil suit might be worthwhile - the problem is that attorneys aren't cheap (Except the public interest kind...)

find out the limits for small claims court there and file up to that limit yourself after a convictionis obtained (proof that he owes you) -- it'll be fun to have him served while in jail & to tell the judge that the def. defaulted b/c he's a prisoner.

you would still have to collect - you do that via garnishment of what he owns

again this is more to make you feel better -- probably - than to recoup your loss.

i called my friend at wagon werks in shelton (kitsap county) and he had already heard of it from his cop friend, so he's on the lookout for parts and pieces. that's two now that turned up over there.

wha...? another got dumped over there? that is a habit that needs to be broken.

thanks for calling, and i am glad that the word is out.

i found out on friday that i would not be able to see the parts on a weekend. i have mondays off, but since tomorrow is a holiday, i will not be able to go out there until the 11th. oh, anticipation.

i did not think that it would actually bring me to tears, but wow...

i talked with the lady at the evidence yard in the kitsap county sherriff's department. seems she is the one who went and picked the 'car' up.

sounds like it met the business end of a sawsall. she said that the little bit of a roof, the broken windshield, the seats, the door, and various other parts all fit in the back of a silverado, and it was not too full.

the thing that killed me is that she kept laughing as she described the parts. 'ha ha ha, not much left out there that you could really call a car...ha ha, i mean, i don't do car rebuilding, or anything, but it doesn't look to me like there's anything left to even start with...ha ha ha ha ha...'

whore.

it is not exactly like i pulled to the side of the road and broke down, but i definitely got a little misty. it is no longer a car.

as far as i am concerned, i do not even want to go out there. if anyone has any interest in seeing if the sport seats are salvageable for recovering, or if the dash (perfect when last i drove the car) is intact, you are more than welcome to do so. i cannot bear to see them, and have no space to store them, anyway. let me know, and i will try to arrange that with the sherriff's department.

there's a special 'circle of hell' reserved for her..my condolences, mik. hopefully, the local members of this board will work together to find you a new car and maybe the perp will be caught as well.
ryan

'67 white VW bug met a similar end some ten years ago.

stolen from in front of house. heard it started up in my sleep one night.

five days later got note in mail from wrecker: "car recovered, ignition punched, car wrecked." thought to myself, "maybe it's not so bad"

went to wrecker, handed over slip and had remnants deliverd to me on a fork lift. my jaw dropped. fork lift driver: "you want it, or what?"

car all bent up, dried blood from cranial impact on dash and hood. hit and run accident ended poorly for driver.

sympathies

flashback last night when I nearly got T-boned by some 4th o' July fool

ag

ryan: thanks.
ag: choices that your thief made may have led him to being spoon-fed for the rest of his life. at this moment, i could not feel bad for him if that were the case.

and right now, i would love to know that the thief of my car had bashed his skull into my windshield. maybe that will abate with time. i am not a vindictive person, just an upset one. in the long run, i would just hope that both of the above would get some jail time.

i keep having this dream where i am at the wheel of my 911, pulling out from the curb on a summer night. as i shift into second, the rear end loosens up briefly, then grips and i shift into third. then the dream fades into some other crazy thing. i do not know if i am just replaying some specific moment i experienced, or just dwelling on the subtlety of the driving experience, or if it is just some freudian thing about my kindergarten teacher, channelled through a 911. i just keep seeing it.

Mik, her behavior sounds completely unprofessional. I would call back and file a complaint with her supervisor. Only then will she change her behavior. Sorry to hear about your loss.

David

Sportseats? . . .they left sportseats?

david: i agree. just thinking about that. thanks.

island: weird, huh?

Mik: You can be assured the car was "parted out" near the location the unwanted parts were dumped. The perp won't risk getting caught transporting the items very far. There a two senerios possbile:

1) He has a crashed and/or broken 911 he needs parts for. He will install all your good parts, get his registered and be on his way.

2) He's selling parts for profit; be it on E-bay or elsewhere.

Since most body parts are gone, the 1st choice is most likely. If I were you, I'd be driving the area on the weekends, looking into backyards, open garages, etc. I'd also call the Auto Theft Det. with Kitsap Co. and make sure he/she is aware of your case. I'd then notify body/paint shops to be on the lookout for someone wanting a quick paint job.

Next, go claim your sport seats and sell them on here. At least you'll re-coup a few buck......G'luck..

I'm thinking that no 911 owner would toss out sportseats. (unless it was some "early elitist" who paradoxically wanted the better 3.0, stronger tranny, aluminum trailing arms ... but thinks that anything that LOOKs 74+ is all wrong) :rolleyes: Anyway, it will be interesting to see what's left . .. what the thieves value. From what I've read so far, I would be looking at teeners (914.com).

what an A-hole like comment........

Why's that?

Are you saying suspects should be limited to 911 owners? Are 914 guys so above reproach?

. . . or is it a little too close to the truth?

Ho derr mad finger pointer. There's lots less squeaky clean 911 owners out there than 914 theives. Besides, it's not like we'd be after the roof, side panels, trans, heating equipment, A/C compressor, oil lines, oil cooler, headlight buckets, bumpers, rear decklid, interior, seats, steering wheel, electrical wiring parts, etc.

LOL

yeah? . . .and how would you know that?

Funny, LakeCleElum speculates that it may be a 911 owner. I refine this and say, maybe an early 911 owner OR MAYBE a teener owner . .. and out come the knee-jerk, overly sensitive to the subject, 914 owners.

Well let me just throw-out tthis; It also may be some guy with a kit-car of some sort.

--ducking now, for all the kitcar owners who will tell me they know more 911 theives than kitcar thieves.:rolleyes:

Nah, you didnt say it like that. You said it like this:
Which was pretty assholish to point the finger at 914 owners. When what you should have done was elaborated on the theif in question, not paint any specific group of enthusiasts with the 'OMGWTFBBQ CARTHEIVES' paintbrush.

Hey Island...
Are those stolen 911 parts I see stuck up your a$$ ?

sorry, a little defensive since due to some cr@p stuff going on at the "other" site :)

by the way, I am a 911 owner as well (well, sorta, I own the red-headed stepchild version no one likes.......'91 964 C2)

what about them Bus guy's??? cannot overlook them :p

if you teeners are defensive because I dropped the 914.com, just relax. I'm not saying/implying anything bad about any of the regulars there. It's just that, at least here in the NW, 914.com is were all the teeners hang-out. THEY WOULD KNOW IF SOME PUNK WAS MOVING SUSPICIOUS 911 PARTS.

I've met some teeners over there, who i'm sure would help keep an eye out. "Fast Eddie" "Bleyseng" "J P Stein" are all locals who hang out there. Mik, i'd ask these guys to keep an eye out, over on that board. (stealthly, hopefully)

I think that the sportseats being left speaks volumes about the thief(s). ....sportseats would even be cool in a bus.;)

Jeroen- you eyeball'n at my ass, boy?