what happened to all the cossies stolen in the 1980's/1990's? was this the start of high insurance premiums? where are they now? stolen to order? or just sheer greed amounst car thieves? who was to blame? teams of ford collectors or ramraiders? is it still happening today? had my first cossie in 1990 ex-demo from ford had to drive 20 miles flat knacker before i used to go home make sure wasn't being followed by a car thief, who is to blame? who can you trust with your pride and joy?

 

Most of the stolen ones only got stoled for joy, or robberies,ramraids etc....

probably most were found damaged somewhere or burnt out.

Many broke for parts too and many got lost in the rally scene.

Seems to have gone onto the latest cars,scoobys ,lancers etc....



Dave.

 

I used to see Grafitti in a local rough/dodgy area saying "Bing Bong ya Cosworths gone!" That was around 1990. Says it all really!

 

is it a bit strange where cosworth's are still going missing these days? or can it be put up jobs for insurance fraudulental claims?

 

For getting striped for parts i suppose

 

its not strange, have you seen the price of cosworth parts now!

Worth a fortune in bits as we all know, and unfortunatly so do the theives.

There is a % age that is fraudulent etc....but most is theft or accidental damage.

My saff was written off not long ago, theres another one gone for good.



Dave.

 

Agre with Dave, most these days are stolen to order or to be broke for spares

 

so whats up with donnington then

when we were up there for national day every garage was broken into and a mint 3dr whent missing .....wtf

i now wont take mine up next year... just in case!!!!!!

 

totally agree the car thieves are closer than u think seems strange that cars and cars parts keep dissappearing from this site and rsoc board watch ur back and dont trust anyone

 

that is a real shame,understand though.

Really bad when you cannot take your rs to a rs show!



Dave.

 

midlands was well know in 90s for cossies going missing

 

suppose there were that many about in the 90's.

All with no alarms on probably.


Dave.

 

im gutted and i doubt i will be the only one to think this way

there must be some thing they can do to prevent it at least!
like change the security

i mean ...come on....there was tons of security up there ...you really telling me no one seen anything .........

 

Was really shit what happened at Donno

 

Cannot believe they did so much and not get seen at all!



Dave.