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April 26, 2010 10:50 a.m. Tetzuoe Reader

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/04/25/2010-04-25_crooks_made_my_...

NY Daily News said:
More than three years after a Brooklyn teacher's car was stolen, she finally got her ride back - totally pimped out.

Amanda Pogany's once-humble white 1996 Honda Accord was returned to her drag-race ready, with a brand-new V-8 engine, tinted windows, oversized tires with special hubcaps - and custom valve stem caps shaped like bullet casings.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/04/25/alg_stolen_civic.jpg

Thats the papers picture of her car, nothing to say that its a stock photo... though I think it might be just a random unrelated accord.
April 26, 2010 10:56 a.m. Wally SuperDork

I think they may have confused vTec with V8. He probably saw the red engine a thought of the veggie drink he had with breakfast.
April 26, 2010 10:56 a.m. Kia_racer Reader

She could have fun driving that to school though. (probably not street legal any more)
April 26, 2010 11:00 a.m. Tetzuoe Reader

also looks like normal tires, and alloys not hub caps?.. gah
April 26, 2010 12:23 p.m. jrw1621 Dork

Stolen --> Theifs upgraded the car for some show and go --> recovered during big bust.
I would suspect that the engine is a stolen item as well. I wonder if they will let her keep it.
I be the next call that she gets is from her insurance company who wants their money back if she was paid out when it was stolen.
April 26, 2010 12:35 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork

the slush box was swappd for a 5 speed... And she cant drive stick.
April 26, 2010 12:40 p.m. Carson Dork

I was hoping this was going to be a story where the Auto Shop teacher's car was "stolen" by the students and returned at the end of the year with more LS1 as a way to say thanks.
April 26, 2010 1:01 p.m. porksboy Dork

A guy locally had an old 60's Chevy stolen. He thought he saw it at a mall. Checked and sure enough it was his. It had a new paint job, new engine, and a bajillion watt stereo in it. Cops were happy to tow it to impound and arrest the hood that came to get in it. None of the parts were traced as stolen and the guy got his car back the way he found it. No insurance claim was made so it was all his.
April 26, 2010 1:05 p.m. Tetzuoe Reader

Carson wrote:

I was hoping this was going to be a story where the Auto Shop teacher's car was "stolen" by the students and returned at the end of the year with more LS1 as a way to say thanks.

then I would have put "stolen" in quotes, not "v8"
April 26, 2010 2:29 p.m. DrBoost Dork

When I was at the dealer there was a Grand Cherokee theft recovery that had about $3,000 in stereo equipment installed, nice wheels and tires and leather interior. I don't know how long it was stolen for but the insurance company told us to "return it to stock". The tech that did the work (not me ) kept all the stuff because the insurance company deemed it "no inspection needed".
I was jealous.
April 26, 2010 2:39 p.m. bludroptop SuperDork

Shades of the VW bus story:

Link to earlier GRM thread
April 26, 2010 4:46 p.m. integraguy HalfDork

Gee, my dream car.....NOT.

Love that someone doesn't know the difference between V-TEC and V8.

Back in the late '60s, Car and Driver had one of it's test cars stolen from the streets of Brooklyn. It was a stock/factory Dodge Dart with a 440 big block that it was determined wouldn't get the full road test treatment as it was all go and no turn/stop. They found the car after they started to hear stories about this Dart that supposedly only had a "hot-rodded 340 small block that was breaking records right and left. The cops caught the thief at the end of his last quarter mile run in the car. And unlike this car, it wasn't "pimped out" but was disquised with a rattle can flat black paint job.
April 28, 2010 10:08 p.m. gamby SuperDork

Jeez--the Dominicans/Guatemalans/Puerto Ricans/Laotians/Hmongs/Vietnamese who stole my Civic a couple of weeks ago were lazy--they just stripped it down to the shell.

Anyway--way back when--when I was struggling to break into the communications field with my useless BA in Communications ( ), articles like this used to drive me nuts. I mean--they didn't do one ounce of fact-checking. The writer couldn't ask the guy who edits the car section for particulars???

"Oversized tires" (stock) with "special hubcaps" (Accord alloys) and a V8 engine (because we know how abundant Honda V8's are outside of F1. Good Lord.

It looks like they did a nice clean install, FWIW.
April 28, 2010 10:17 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork

gamby said:
(because we know how abundant Honda V8's are outside of F1)

33 of them run around in a rectangle pattern for 500 miles sometime every spring in Indiana...

then the driver of the fastest one drinks some milk...
April 28, 2010 10:19 p.m. gamby SuperDork

maroon92 wrote:

gamby said:
(because we know how abundant Honda V8's are outside of F1)

33 of them run around in a rectangle pattern for 500 miles sometime every spring in Indiana...

then the driver of the fastest one drinks some milk...

...and Indy...
April 28, 2010 10:23 p.m. mtn SuperDork

gamby wrote:

maroon92 wrote:

gamby said:
(because we know how abundant Honda V8's are outside of F1)

33 of them run around in a rectangle pattern for 500 miles sometime every spring in Indiana...

then the driver of the fastest one drinks some milk...

...and Indy...

Isn't that what he just said?
April 28, 2010 10:27 p.m. gamby SuperDork

mtn wrote:

gamby wrote:

maroon92 wrote:

gamby said:
(because we know how abundant Honda V8's are outside of F1)

33 of them run around in a rectangle pattern for 500 miles sometime every spring in Indiana...

then the driver of the fastest one drinks some milk...

...and Indy...

Isn't that what he just said?

I was repeating what he said to emphasize my glaring omission
April 28, 2010 11:56 p.m. neon4891 SuperDork

Gotta love the media

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