[STOLEN] 1976 Corvette Reported Stolen in South Carolina Was Recovered

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Mitch Talley
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[STOLEN] 1976 Corvette Reported Stolen in South Carolina Was Recovered

Photo Credit: WCBD Charleston


A tip from a concerned citizen led to the recovery of a missing 1976 Corvette Stingray in South Carolina last week.

But even though the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office knows who took the car, the actual owner decided not to press charges after getting it back.

“Acting on a tip, detectives recovered the Corvette on Thursday in Adams Run,” sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Knapp told WCSC Live 5 News. “The vehicle had been taken by someone who stated he mistakenly thought it had been abandoned.”

Of course, as we learned in Bible School years ago, you don’t take things that don’t belong to you, no matter how abandoned they may look to you. In this case, the classic Corvette did look sort of abandoned – sitting next to a brick building with tall grass all around, surrounded by a set of hand trucks, a concrete cherub statue, an old plastic cooler, and a dirty stainless steel table.

1976 Corvette Photo Credit: Charleston County Sheriff’s Office


Investigators say the misinformed suspect had loaded the Corvette on a car hauler trailer at an unknown time, and the owner first noticed that it was missing on March 8.

Add that to the list of lessons learned over a lifetime: When leaving your old Corvette in a field for long periods of time, it might be wise to put a note on the windshield explaining that the car has not been abandoned and please don’t take it.


Source:
live5news.com

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3 COMMENTS

  1. You never take a car just because you thought it looked abandoned. That dude was just using that as an excuse to try to get his ass out of trouble with the law.

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