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TORANA STOLEN!!

Started by _70LC_ , Mar 11 2007 01:42 PM

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#51 jpxu1

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 01:35 PM

Hopefully they are watching this forum :gun:

, then they will realise the whole torana community is looking for them and they will have no hope trying to rebirth the car or sell the parts :fool:

. If they do read this, park the car somewhere conspicuous so the owner gets it back in one piece :spoton:

Hopefully it was someone only after the sound system.
Best of luck getting it back.
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#52 orangeLJ

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 02:25 PM

did you infrom the police of the sighting?? yes sometimes they wont do a thing, but sometimes there may be a certain house/building/anything in the area that is a hotspot for them, may be able to track it down through their network. just a thought.

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#53 _70LC_

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 04:14 PM

yeah, police are goin to look into it, hopefully they go round and ask some questions. :gun:

apart from that im back at square one. vic roads dont even keep recordings of the highways! :<_<:

will keep everyone posted on the progress.

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#54 _Azza_

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 04:27 PM

Mate go doorknocking in every house in that street. But have some mates and baseball bats with you.

Sad to hear..

Hope you get it back.

Why cant we cut peoples hands off for stealing? Just like overseas.. Id gladly do it to scum fembits like this..

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#55 _Hotrodder_

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 10:24 PM

All i can say is the sooner that some one makes a cheap tracking device that any one can aford the better . we have the technology ,i would pay upto 1500 for one. hidden in the car the theff would be none the wiser. then you could find it fast before its in bitts

Ive installed quite a few of these. The kids locked the doors on the wifes statesman once with her keys inside, I rang them up and they unlocked the car from their office for me. By the time I rang her back she was already in the car, she was rapt, saved her heaps. They can also shut the engine/fuel pump/etc off remotely to stop a pursuit, and lock the doors until the cops arrive if you have deadlocks fitted. Can track a car (or earthmoving machinery which is where most of these units end up) down to a few metres, VERY versatile units.
www.quiktrak.com.au

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#56 rodomo

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 10:35 PM

This is where the car was last seen which was on sunday afternoon.

Hamilton St, Niddrie (airport west)

I went up that street 6.45am this morning and saw nothing. I just wonder wether it was an order? What I mean is someone pays someone else to pinch it, leave it in a pre-determined street, for someone else to pick up later. The initial thief may have had someone waiting in that street to get him away? He had to have got there somehow.

Eyes peeled. Every taxi out the corner of my eye makes my head spin :blink:

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#57 _caseyo69_

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Posted 13 March 2007 - 11:10 PM

Good to see everyone keepiing a good look out for it, 70lc good luck in finding the car again, I doubt the car would come anywhere near my way Mt Gambier SA but i'll keep my eyes and ears open too. :clap:

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#58 _kaz from adelaide_

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 07:50 AM

I have started a thread about tracking devices http://www.gmh-toran...showtopic=15188

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#59 _piranha_

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Posted 14 March 2007 - 04:40 PM

Baseball bats? what are we american give em a good ole aussie bashing using crickets bats. (yes I know we didnt invent the sport but we dominate/own it)

The kids locked the doors on the wifes statesman once with her keys inside, I rang them up and they unlocked the car

Did you know you can unlock a car using your remote unlocker via the phone, so if you lock your keys inside and your girlfriend has another remote on her set ring her up and get her to hold the remote next to the phone and it will unlock the car. Try it, in fact I might start a thread about it has helped me out once before.

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 07:01 PM

A POST FROM PERFORMANCE FORUMS:

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I swear i saw this today near altona... I love the 2 doors and this stood out.. had both windows down, 2 guys in it "greeks" Id love to put a RB into one so thats why i remember it, was mint..
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#61 _70LC_

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 03:17 PM

hey tiny, did the person happen to say where? so it was seen yesterday??

hmmm....

thx

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 03:45 PM

Gday 70LC: The post was pasted whole.. THe way i read it, It was near Altona in Melbourne?

Have a read of the post above, it was made by fixxxer on performanceforums.

Cheers mate
Good Luck.

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#63 rodomo

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Posted 23 March 2007 - 04:25 PM

Any news?

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Posted 23 March 2007 - 05:05 PM

A number of years ago I rang about a brown LX SS l31 for sale in the trading post in adelade but I couldnt get there for a few days and missed the car. In the driveway was a 308 motor block with HT engine number so I bought it for $50 while having suspisions about the drugged up bloke that sold it to me. :fool:

A few weeks later I contacted the local cop with the engine number only to find it had been stolen he gave me the phone number of the bloke who owned it, When I spoke to him he said he had nearly finnished restoring the car a genuine LX SS L31 when it was stolen and this was the first he had hear of it and as far as I know all he got back was a Block and Crank. :cry:

I cant remember but I think the blokes Name is Scott Maps does anyone know him and if he ever found the rest of the car.

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#65 _gtrtorana_

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Posted 23 March 2007 - 10:29 PM

Seeing this topic near the top of the list gave me some hope the car was found

Looks like I was wrong :cry:

Does anyone know if there has been a good ending or a good lead into finding this missing torry.

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Posted 23 March 2007 - 11:09 PM

I was in Autobarn in Airport West yesterday and saw one of Clark's flyers hanging there. So I just thought I'd ask.

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#67 _70LC_

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 11:12 AM

hey everyone, saw that the post was updated. well sadly no luck on my car. :cry:

its been 2 weeks since it was stolen now, and i think the likelyhood im goin to see it again is very slim.

will probably be getting paid out from insurance company this week or next. :<_<:

what to buy???

sadly i dont have to the time or money to have another project. will definitley do another one sometime in the not so distant future.

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 03:32 PM

will probably be getting paid out from insurance company this week or next.

Don't buy another lj2dr if it's your only transport because you will lose again

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#69 Tiny

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 03:37 PM

Sad news mate... Buy a ford as your daily driver.. as colin said above, less likely to get nicked!

Hope the insurnace value was somewhere near the value of the car :(

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 05:32 PM

Buy an A to B car and with the change start the next project :spoton:

A mate of mine had a LJ GTR stolen 30ish years ago. He got paid out and bought an EH wagon. After about 6-8 weeks the GTR turns up and he got it back off the insurance company. All that was wrong with it was the drivers door lock. He sold the car to his mate. His mate is legally deaf and if my memory is correct, doesn't drive. I bumped into his mate at the Eye and Ear Hosp. in Melb. a couple of years ago and the car is still sitting in a shed. No, he won't sell it. :furious:

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#71 _TUFF_

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 05:49 PM

I hate it when cars get stolen, Especially nice ones. I am in NSW and although the chances of it being up here arn't great i will still keep an eye out. Good Luck with getting it back... You never know they may just of pinched it for a joy ride it could be parked up somewhere out of fuel. Its a car that will get noticed so it can't be to far away. Sus out your street.

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#72 _mike_nofx_

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 07:14 PM

Start checkin ebay for the parts i reckon. If any are close go and check em out. You might recognise your parts (maybe by a small scratch or somethin?)

Good luck finding it mate

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 09:05 PM

It's too easy to rebirth a lj. Done overnight and with a good job and looking different altogether, and down for rego the next morning which could be booked in, before the car was even stolen.

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 09:18 PM

My hatch was stollen a few years ago. A few days before it went missing I had to buy a new window winder mechanism and saw a hatch advertised at a local wreckers. I had a look and it was a good shell. A few days later my car is stolen and I get it back badly damaged. I rang about the shell and it was gone. Funny how the guys who I know full well stole my car bought this shell I thought. Too bad I couldn't prove it as the police took the video evidence. Apparently catching them for car theft wasn't high on the priority list as they wanted to catch them for their drug dealings instead.

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 09:25 PM

sounds a bit fare fetched but last Thursday i was driving through sunbury on my way home from uni (the train broke down so had to be picked up! :furious:

). This was around 5.20PM. i saw what i thought was a yellow 2 door LJ being towed through a roundabout and i didnt really think to much of it until i revisited this post. I believe it wasnt as neat as this one thats been stolen but it was yellow and could defenitily been an LC and not a LJ.

Now you would have to be pretty stupid to be towing a stolen car through Sunbury during a bust time such as 5PM during the week. Could be worth an inquiry perhaps? Because where it was stolen from isnt all that far from Sunbury i dont believe.

Cheers Leigh