Yes, in 1989 I got this back....



looking like this....



Stolen from Liversedge in West Yorkshire, it was taken to Bridlington by a man who lived in Hull to replace the mini that his girlfriend had crashed whilst her parents had been away on holiday. They were rubbing it down to spray it a slightly different shade of racing green and a dodgy tax disc was spotted by a traffic warden whilst they had it parked outside Halfords as they'd just nipped out for a bit more wet and dry (yes... they'd driven it to Halfords looking like that..... oh dear).

I gained a hammer out of the theft... and they'd fixed the high beem flash for me. So after we'd wrangled with the insurance company who eventually paid out for a new coat of paint, everyone was happy.

The ride over to Brid in the back of the Police van in thick fog to identify the car and bring it back to Batley nick was an experience I never want to repeat though.