RSCossieGaz

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FordKid

GAZ@RACE-SPEC Motorsport, how comes u never keeped it? did ya sell it to ya m8 right after or did ya wait a few weeks?

xr2i-carl

thats 1 amazing story, explain about the car more? so it wsent blown up if it was nicked and driven off? if it was nicked ten surely they would have had to change battery and things? handbrake surely seized on??

RSCossieGaz

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well i had it for 8 months in the garage but due to change in circumstances for me at that period of time she had to go-shame really as i would of liked to of seen it all thro to the end but at least a mate got it so can have a go in it when i want

but hey cant really complain when you consider how i got it and got a good fair bit for her too

RSCossieGaz

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well when picked it up from the pound noticed that the engine loom had been hacked into with another loom maybe to by pass the imobilizer prehaps or something like that ? so to get her running,engine wasnt blown up at all coz it was certainly driving the nite it was crashed into some poor sods front garden wall hence how it came back to my attention

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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May put my escort cos on Flea bay with a starting price of £450 and no reserve see what happens

GUZZLER

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what a load of bollox, who the fuck in their right mind would leave their escos parked up on the roadside for a couple of years????? anyone would think he took it from someone's garage!!!

Gaz made inquires at the local houses & no one knew anything about the car, then he inquired with the police, then the DVLA, i can't belive it sat there for as long as it did, its a bit of a shithouse area where we are & most half decent motors go missing no matter how much security they have, the car just sat there, even the council were meant to move it but never bothered!!
any one who knows Gaz will tell you that he's no thief, he went through all the proper channels & got the car. fair play Gazza

RSCossieGaz

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exactly matt

of course i dont know how long the car was parked there from before i became aware of it

marco polo

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Thats all well and good , but what if the owner was inside prison doing a 3/4/5yr sentance or aboard working how could he/she reply to DVLA to stop the transfer if they are not about ???

so if this is the case everyone would be doing it something fishy somewhere along the line

put it this way i wouldn't like it one bit if some tryed this to my car

and DVLA are totally in the wrong regaurdless

thats my thoughts anyway

if thats the law then you got yourself a good deal

Marco

RSCossieGaz

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if he is in jail/dead/abroad then why aint a mate or relative moved the car,put it on a drive/garage etc you dont just leave it parked on a street and expect after x amounts of years for it to still be there if the tax has way run out.

phil4x4saph

Gaz, I got no problems with you claiming it - ya lucky ****!

But the law is an ass - it must belong to somebody!!

There is a house near me that hasnt been lived in for a few years, but if i break in and take the cooker, thats theft!

Maybe if i put a letter through the door saying im going to take their stuff unless you write back telling me not to.. that would be ok in some way?!

SAFFYCOSSIE

But havent you got his name and address form the log book? I mean i wouldnt knock on his door and say " i have got your car mate do you want it back?" but i am sure you could find out if he is dead or inside ect? Great story mate Lucky Bastard

RSCossieGaz

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you could do that but you be done for breaking and entering and you'll be nicked since you have nothing in writing/document saying you have the property

when i saw the car without tax i could of made attempt to move it but would of been done for theft so thought no way am i touching it unless i get proper reason too(logbook) but never really thought i would ever get that far.

but i went through all the correct channels even the police so i see as i did nothing wrong

RSCossieGaz

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see what your saying but when i got it just was so amazed to have got it didnt want it taken away if you catch ma drift-was gonna sit back and let them come to me not vice versa

and so far nothing.

xr2itrojan

The log book isn't proof of ownership it even says so on it! If or when the owner decides to track it down whether its tomorrow or in 10 years its still their car and I reckon u will be getting a slap if they do. and also how do you know the tax ran out in 2000? Is it because thats what the tax disc said? Maybe the newest tax disc wasn't in the car for some reason.

rs_daz

I dont know .

Sounds too good to be true

That car belongs to someone..or did belong to someone.

You say the car was there sat there for 2 yrs or whatever,,then the next min when you go to pick it up it gets nicked? after being sat there for 2yrs? mmmm

croakey

it does indeed sound too good to be true...

however it has been known for these drug dealery types to need to disappear pronto. maybe the dealer who owned it pissed someone off and needed to get out the country.

same thing happened a few years back by me nans house in bristol...brand new range rover top the range....dumped in a pub car park with the keys in it.. never reported stolen, registered in a fake name, and no one ever claimed it. till this day i'm sure avon police have it in storage

its alrite swiping the cossie, but when the 6ft8 20 stone shaven headed drug dealing woman beating psycho whos just done 8 years in jail comes out and finds his precious cossie gone then maybe it wont appear such a good idea.

but fair play to ya...wish i cud find a parked up cossie

SassyRS

Micky The Finn

I CANNOT BELEIVE YOU HAVE POSTED THIS ON A FORUM THAT ANYBODY CAN READ,THIS IS ONE TRUMPET YOU SHOULDNT BE BLOWING!!!!!
SOME THINGS YOU JUST KEEP TO YOURSELF AND THE BEST BIT OF ADVICE YOUR GONNA GET ON THIS THREAD IS ASK A MODERATOR TO DELETE IT AS YOU COULD END UP IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.

MWF

Marco providing the car isn't parked on the road you're OK, nobody has the right to come onto your property and take it without going and getting the police involved, in which case they'd be screwed for clearly trying to pull a fast one. The law only applies to cars on the roadside which are in effect considered abandoned.

To be blunt I think anybody who leaves their pride and joy out on the road and doesn't provide the means to be contacted, i.e by supplying a forwarding address or getting friend/family to check the post clearly and doesn't tax the car in line with the law doesn't really deserve more than one chance to stop somone else claiming it's abandoned.

What would you rather the DVLA do? The only way they can try and contact the registered keeper is via the details provided in the V5. Would your rather they handed the car over to the police and they made money selling them at auctions? Or perhaps the council took them away and crushed them?

In my friends case the DVLA provided the contact details of the registered keeper and he actually contacted them. It turned out to be registered to a garage owner who, when contacted, said my friend was welcome to take the car and he wouldn't be responding to the letter from the DVLA.

While there is the worry that somebody could effectively go around trying to claim almost every car they like the look of is abandoned I doubt they could do it without being red flagged very quickly.

Escort-Ian

but isn't posession 9/10th's of the law?



fair play fella can't fault you one bit myself, certainly a one off with such a car methinks!!

Sunil_FiestaRS1800

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fair play mate got yourself a result and a half there.

Theres an Audi TT with no tax been sitting near my gf's for half a year. I might try claiming it if its still there in another few months

FordKid

go for it m8

xr2itrojan

oh yeh almost forgot well played m8 you lucky b*st*rd!!!

RSCossieGaz

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and where would that be residing mate?

Sunil_FiestaRS1800

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vroooom ptssssh

Fair play, i'd be cheesin if it was me

end of the day, it was un-taxed and ilegally on the road. if the owner left it for whatever reason, how long would it take to SORN it and put it off the road

mattbibs

fair play. left it any longer and it could have been put into the shape of a cube! then what would the previous owner do or think?

xr2i-carl

was it chipped at all???? how did they get the steering lock off, they stupid really they shoudl of just one what you did.


carl

xr2itrojan

maybe the car was chillin in sum guys garage he hugged it and said good bye then flew off to some foreign country to work for a few years sum lads knew it was there or stumbled across it and thought to themselves this is nice and proceded to hack away at the loom removing the alarm and immobiliser drove off and went for a baloon in it then it ran out of petrol and they are skids so they left it where it was till they scrounged enough money for another joy ride and then smashed it through a wall and fucked off so the rightful owner doesnt know its gone yet to report it stolen.

Lee1972

It was their car!

This law has been put in place for one rerason, to make money for the government.

If you dont tax a car it is considered abandoned, the DVLA will then write to the keeper and ask whos car it is, if they dont get a reply then because it has no tax it is an abandoned vehicle. As it is abandoned you can claim the car.

This is what my council do, and they sell loads of cars this way and make loads of money.

Because councils are run so badly they didnt pick the motor up and sell it,
GAZ@RACE-SPEC Motorsport got in first and good luck to him I say.

MikeeB

Top result mate, my company move untaxed motors for the council and i will be keeping my eyes peeled from now on.

All the people that are saying this is immoral etc think of it like this, you find 15K in a suit case, you do the right thing and hand it in to the old bill, after 6 months or whatever they call you saying that according to law etc etc the money hasnt been claimed and as you found it you can have it, will you A.say no thanks it's probably drug or blood money or will you B.Get down the cop shop quick sharp and pick up your 15 big ones?

I know what i'd do and you lot saying its wrong would do exactly the same!!!!!

Althoagh to proper criminal's a 15K getaway car will be a minor expendature i would be alittle concerned about the previous owner coming back for the car.

But nonetheless Result Gaz just a shame i didnt find it first

marco polo

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I understand now mate

Gaz fair play then

Marco

Dan

Thats EXACTLY what I was thinking, most people wouldn't bat an eyelid if was a crap old car left on the road but as its an Esc Cos that makes it different!? Not IMO

Well Done to Gaz IMO, if you've gone through the proper channel's and got advice from the 'real' people in the know i.e. DVLA, Police, Local Council, then good luck to ya!

Any plans for it?

ProjectBobcat

congratulations mate, looks like u got some amazing luck there, its surprising how many people dont bother to go to the effort for something like that. What are your plans for the car, strip it/sell it and make a tidy profit or fix the bit of damage and drive her?

Im not gonna say anything about the legality, im big enough to say im fooking jealous and i dont wanna piss on your parade!

RSCossieGaz

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RSCossieGaz

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cheers to all the people with there replys

it just makes ya think what is out there if you look and if your got abit of know how about these matters

keep alook out guys and gals you never know what you may come across

well im constantley on the look out but so far not had any more success tried a bmw that i reckoned was abandaned no tax etc but was just about to send the form off then the car moved and dissapeared.

Jamz

properly Wombling man

Paulie Wheelnuts

Gaz,
Talk about smelling of roses...............fancy giving me 6 numbers between 1 and
49.
If you see a 4x4 with smoked windows in your area spray the car another colour.......quick.

good luck with it

Zetecfiesta

what a story thats amazing! i wish something like that could happen to me!