300k MACH1 stolen

[majorpain]

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Sometime Saturday May 15th a custom built $300K Twin-Turbo 2003 Mustang Mach 1 Outlaw drag car was stolen from a storage facility in Ocala, Florida. Theives broke into the self storage facility where the Mustang was inside a 48-foot enclosed trailer. The thieves apparently hooked up a stolen truck to the trailer to move it forward to get the car out, all the while leaving the stolen truck behind making off with the car in another trailer they brought. Sounds like something you would only see in a movie but this really happend. The priceless car is completely custom built with one-of-a-kind parts made to run in the six-second range.

The owners of the Mustang put up StolenMustang.com to try and recover the car along with a Letter to the Car Thieves


Letter to Theives

By now, you must realize that you can never own or race this car. The awesome power of the internet has put pictures of every inch of it onto every imaginable forum. This will only get worse with time.

There are yellowbulleters that are truckers, port authorities, cops, racers, track owners, shop owners, vendors, painters, tuners, mechanics, interstate camera guys, you name it. Your UPS guy just might have seen the car on his favorite Yugo forum, so it’s just a matter of time before someone puts it together. Sooner or later, someone will notice you have an unfamiliar car under a cover somewhere, and that it doesn’t quite add up. One day, he’ll stumble across a website and bells will go off in his head.

Just about every part on that car is unique and custom. Every single part is high-end stuff, only used by cars with huge power levels. There are only so many people that use parts like these. We know most of these people, and our friends here know the rest of them. Even internationally. Our friends have probably already emailed your friends with pictures and information about the theft. The parts can’t be sold, they’re worthless to you. They can’t be repaired without being identified. Even if you sold them, one day those parts will need repair and the manufacturer will recognize them. They will then be traced back to you. Faced with stolen parts charges, your buyer will quickly roll over on you.

The engine is so custom that anyone capable of rebuilding it will recognize who it was built by, and red flags will go off. All it takes is one set of rods, lifters, crank, a needed valve job or whatever. How many race head shops are there? How often do Blue Thunder heads really come through? How many of them already got our email forwarded to them? Just on this site alone, there were something like 12,000 views within 8 hours of the original post. That’s 12,000 people on day 1 that are now looking closely for you, or any part that comes off that car. And that was day 1, before it spread to every Ford, Chevy, Honda, Nissan, Dodge, Buick, Fiat, Volvo, and Yugo forum there is. Google “Josh Klugger” and see for yourself.

The RacePak? Serial Number. Big Stuff? Serial Number. Heads? Serial Number. MSD box? You see what I’m saying? Need the converter rebuilt? It was custom built for us, and would be easily recognized. Tranny? Custom internal mods. Rear end & suspension? prototype from Alston chassis . Wheels? Custom offset and beadlocks made just for us by our good friends at Holeshot. Turbos? Joe @ Precision will be watching for them. This car, and it’s parts, are worthless to you. Even if you managed to sell some parts, every part you sell is a part that could later be identified and eventually traced back to you. The more you sell, the greater the risk of identification.

You certainly couldn’t sell the car as a whole to a legitimate buyer. Title, VIN, recognizable car. It’s also a real Mach1. How many real Mach1 race cars do you think there are? And a sudden influx of high end parts to your car would certainly raise su****ion, wouldn’t they? If you go faster, people will notice. So if the parts are no good to use or sell, the car is not sellable as a whole, keeping it around is a ticking time bomb , and every day the word gets spread even further and faster, your only realistic choice is to get rid of the car before you get caught with it. Just today, someone launched a website for us…

StolenMustang.com

You’re probably a car guy yourself, so don’t screw up a beautiful race car and someone’s life dream. Here’s an easy way out: Park the car in a nice, safe church parking lot at about 5am. Write the words STOLEN FROM OCALA, FL on the windshield, and walk away. And consider this… when you do end up getting caught, whatever missing parts or damage happens to that car, you will be court ordered to pay for in restitution, as part of your parole conditions (after you finally get out of prison and break up with Bubba). Not paying your restitution on time every month is cause for violation of parole, and lands you back in prison, so you can’t escape paying that back (probably at minimum wage at that point). And these parts aren’t cheap. So it’s in everybody’s best interest that the car just comes back safely and whole.

By now, you know you messed up. Please don’t make this any worse for yourself, or Josh, who is suffering unbearably because of you. Do the right thing, before it’s too late. Giving the car back will be a huge weight off your shoulders.

[Ghost Gt]

Good luck

[SSFenris]

be interested to see how this story plays out...

[SCCA_stang]

Its probably in a container ship with 48 other cars on their way to South America.

That Damn Nick Cage is at it again!!!

[SCCA_stang]

BTW, even if the parts are serialized or custom, most police and most buyers aren't gonna know what they are looking for enough to know where the parts came from to get the buyers to "roll over" on the guy.

The car is long gone and in a million pieces.

[GoofieChic]

I concur with ^. This thing is long gone. If someone is going to go through all the trouble to steal it the way they did you aren't looking for Johnny and his tubby friend. This was a professional job. HE GONE!

[Gary101386]

This is why we pay insurance....

[GoofieChic]

Originally Posted by Gary101386

This is why we pay insurance....

+1 million x infinity.


Gary for PRESIDENT!

[wct2]

Vincent: What's more chickenshit than fucking with a man's automobile? I mean, don't fuck with another man's vehicle.
Lance: You don't do it.
Vincent: It's just against the rules.
~Pulp Fiction

[majorpain]

i think it was an inside job

[Trouble]

That'll learn them for cutting up a Mach 1...

[acireta]

didn't somebody spot this car after it was stolen? i dont know where the link is....

[majorpain]

Originally Posted by acireta

didn't somebody spot this car after it was stolen? i dont know where the link is....

i been trying to keep up with this story but cant find anything. i will go check the forum is was orignally posted on.

car has not yet been found.

[StAnGbAnGeR408]

Agreed with the car being long gone. Sucks, but if you have something, that someone else wants bad enough, they will steel it. It had to be someone on the inside, someone who knew the car was there, and what it was worth. They had to move stuff around, plus come with a tow rig, and trailer??? INSIDE JOB! This car is long gone, or like someone said torn apart into a million pieces. Not to be so negative, but this isn't a petty theft, we are talking thousands and thousands of dollars here.

[acireta]

so unfortunate i felt so violated when my ipod was stolen out of my car, i can't even IMAGINE what this guy is going through.

[Gary101386]

Originally Posted by acireta

so unfortunate i felt so violated when my ipod was stolen out of my car, i can't even IMAGINE what this guy is going through.

i can only imagine!

[Dr.Apex]

Yeah I agree that the car is long gone, that's why we pay insurance, and that it had to be an inside job.
It's sad to say that in this day and age, stuff like this happens all the time.

I wouldn't be suprised if it was the owner/s himself/themselves that are committing insurance fraud. That happens all the time too. Just some food for thought.

[95bananaGT]

any word?