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| Car Found 40 Years Later, but Not the Owner |
| 2014-02-23 |
| [An Nahar] Police in Tennessee cannot find the man whose Volkswagen Beetle was recently discovered in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , 40 years after it was stolen. The 1965 car was found in January before it could be shipped to Canada and then to Finland. Knoxville, Tenn., police front man Darrell DeBusk says a man named Joseph McDonald reported it stolen in 1974. He says a phone number left by McDonald no longer works. DeBusk says McDonald may have been a college student in Knoxville at the time. The car now is white but was red in 1974. Federal border agents in Detroit who checked the paperwork discovered that the 1965 Beetle was reported stolen. The last owner, a Michigan resident, didn't know that history. The vehicle was being sent overseas to be restored. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Detroit Free Press has this: KNOXVILLE — For 40 years, Joseph MacDonald says he has been wondering where his 1965 Volkswagen Beetle ended up. "It was a faded red with a black convertible top and it had shiny chrome hubcaps," he described. MacDonald has a car title for a 1965 Beetle, the car he drove while majoring in English at UT. The title shows MacDonald's signature and that he bought the VW Bug on December 3, 1973. But in December 1974, MacDonald says he reported his car stolen to the Knoxville Police Department. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-02-23 22:12 |
| #2 I don't have the same number, in fact the house was burnd and I suspect the number has been re-assigned. NOTE "WAS" burned. They did Jail time for it. And are still paying restitution (Pitifully slow) $100 per month. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-02-23 18:33 |
| #1 "Joseph McDonald reported it stolen in 1974. He says a phone number left by McDonald no longer works" No sh*t, Sherlock. Everyone in the room that had a telephone number in '74 and still has the same number, raise your hand. Anyone,... Buehler, anyone? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-02-23 15:04 |