If I remember correctly it wound up in a telephone pole within the year.
The fate of many I suspect.
Wasn’t the Capri the sensible Maverick/Vega ?
The Boston cops found her with a cut hockey stick in place to pin the accelerator, have been driven head on into a concrete wall in Southie, where after the crash, either they set her on fire….or she caught fire. Everything in front of the back seats burned to a crisp!
Hah, we forget the random fun aspect of car theft.
You might have been better off that it was totaled. In the late 90’s I had a pos Dodge Omni stolen off the street in Brooklyn. I think with that car I’d even stopped using the Club, not that worked all that well. I figured who would steal it?
Well it did get stolen, right across from my apartment. It was a manual shift, but young thieves could still drive stick at that time. I figured it was a training/sport theft.
The cops said I couldn’t report it stolen until I showed the title. That took a couple days to find. I heard nothing for a month, figured it was gone for good. About then the insurance company called, not the cops, saying the car had been found. Then the fun began.
I couldn’t just go pick it up. I had to go pay the Sheriff down across from City Hall in Manhattan. That was like $250, for the privilege of being a crime victim. After that, there might have been another step, I forget. I had multiple car retrievals involving the Marshall in those years. Don’t pay two tickets, after a month your car is on the wanted list, and tow trucks drive around punching in license plates. That's how my stolen car was found on the street.
Meanwhile, while finding the title and paying the Sheriff, as I would find out soon, the car is accruing a $15/day charge for storage at the tow yard. At the tow yard, I had to pay the towing fee, plus the storage. Freakin’ racket. It could’ve been in there a month if the insurance company didn’t call.
All in all, it was a bit over $500, just to get the stolen car back.
I don't know, but it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if I’d said “I don’t want it”, they’d charge all the fees, plus storage till sold, and deduct the pittance they’d get at auction.
