a GT 350 that was stolen and stripped, but not until after cool adventures

Fidel Kunz was a painter back in 1967,  a few miles north of the border town Porthill, Idaho.

Fidel's local Ford dealer didn't have any Shelbys in stock and wouldn't take Fidel's requests for one seriously. Fidel was fed up. One day he walked into the showroom with the required amount of money to buy a Shelby. The dealer saw all that cash in Fidel's hand and changed his mind

Fidel immediately set about racing his new car as well as using it as a daily driver, the GT-350 carried Fidel to his various job sites during the week. It was on the job that the car caught the attention of a young kid. The kid wanted a ride, and Fidel obliged. The young kid was wowed and became a racer in his teens. He later switched to engine building. One of his engines won the Indy 500 years later.

Before he knew it, the whole experience came to an abrupt end in the early 1970s when the car was stolen because the GT-350 had extensive engine work done and was known in the area. The thieves couldn't sell the car without attracting attention, so they pulled the engine to sell it out of town. The body of the car was abandoned in bushes, destroyed. Sadly, the car had to be written off.

http://www.oneownercollectorcar.com/index.php/cars/goneforever/82-1967-ford-mustang-shelby-gt-350-fidel-kunz

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ZL-1 which was stolen in the 70s and never has reappeared

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Victory and Indian motorcycles dealership busted scamming the factory for rebates based on program to get vets a $1000 discount

Shark Cycles (ironic) in Stafford Springs Connecticut was raided by the feds in May of 2016. The owner and 2 employees were arrested and released on bail.

Charged with larceny, money-laundering, and 12 counts each of identity theft and forgery for allegedly scamming Polaris Industries.

The investigation began nine months ago when a lawyer for Polaris, which makes Victory and Indian motorcycles, Slingshot three-wheelers and Polaris-branded ATVs, alerted authorities that the dealer might be committing government document fraud.

“It was determined that the employees of Shark Cycle were stealing the personal information – names, birthday and Social Security numbers – of customers who were veterans. They would then use the factual information on fraudulent Department of Defense documents, which were submitted to Polaris for a $1,000 credit. Polaris was running a rebate called ‘Hero’s Medal,’ so that anyone with a military, police or firefighter identification who bought a new Victory motorcycle from a licensed dealer would get a $1,000 rebate.

“It was found that the fraud scheme was done so that Shark Cycle could present lower prices to customers, thus spiking its sales numbers. In turn, Shark Cycle received an additional monetary bonus from Polaris for high sales numbers,” Fox 61 explained in its online story.

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http://fox61.com/2016/12/19/police-3-arrested-in-fraud-scheme-at-stafford-springs-shop-for-using-veterans-information/

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Motorcycle thieves prevented from getting away with the bikes

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a couple dozen cars stolen from a car dealership inventory storage lot in Torrence. How? No security, no GPS tracking device installed, just penny pinching morons running the show letting many thieves get away with new Infinitis and Nissans

15 people have been arrested in the theft of approximately 40 cars from a Torrance dealership.

According to Torrance and Redondo Beach police, over a period of several weeks, multiple cars were stolen from a former Costco parking lot

the cheap dealership trying to save a couple hundred dollars by not having any security at all on the car lot, and no alarms on the cars, wasn't even aware for 6 weeks that the cars were stolen until investigators informed the dealership that stolen cars were used in a police chase in which two accused gang members were arrested, said Barry Wishengrad, managing partner for Nissan and Infiniti of South Bay.

Police said the gang members broke into lockboxes on the cars, took car keys and just drove away. That means, there was no security system of any kind on the car. No GPS tracker either, and no security on the parking lot. No cameras, no fence.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/12/26/15-arrested-in-intricate-torrance-car-theft-ring/

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