Damn, have heard of problems like this at lower levels, but apparently someone made off with Travis Kvapil's Sprint Cup car from a hotel outside Atlanta this morning.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2015/02/27/nascar-44-hauler-car-stolen-team-xtreme/24109753/
ATLANTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, what's the record for a lap of Loop 285?
It'll be on craigslist in a few hours.....just wait. 
Found it! http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/4910225323.html
has to be a joke. A cruel awful one though.
Yeah someone decided to jack the truck and trailer. Bet they got a shock when they opened the trailer later.
That CL ad is using pictures from Travis' twitter account so definitely a cruel joke.
CGLockRacer wrote: Found it! http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/4910225323.html
that's a good one
hope they find it soon tho
a few years ago, Jennifer Jo Cobb's hauler and one of her Nationwide cars was "stolen" from her shop... it turned out to be a former boyfriend/investor that claimed the stuff was actually his, and i can't remember how it all shook out in the courtroom..
wonder if this might be a similar situation, hopefully without the "boyfriend" part..
In reply to novaderrik:
NASCAR might actually represent reality a little closer if it actually was a boyfriend behind this. I mean, come on, it's 2015 already.
In reply to pres589:
I heard it was Robin Hood, man in leathers......
Was it cut off sleeves guy? (or whatever he was called?)
Fogger Jr?
Ricky Bobby needed a new ride for the long awaited sequel to Talladega nights?
Almost looks like an invitation.
Trailer just sitting there with no markings.
Easily towed away by a silver later model Cherokee.
Dafuq does someone do with it???
I didn't think there was much of a secondary market for current Cup cars. The tools in the trailer, on the other hand...
mndsm wrote: Fogger Jr?
LOLzers.
gamby wrote: Dafuq does someone do with it??? I didn't think there was much of a secondary market for current Cup cars. The tools in the trailer, on the other hand...
Tell.you what I'd do- there's no vin, I'd skin it, put lights on it and tag it as a kit car.
mndsm wrote:gamby wrote: Dafuq does someone do with it??? I didn't think there was much of a secondary market for current Cup cars. The tools in the trailer, on the other hand...Tell.you what I'd do- there's no vin, I'd skin it, put lights on it and tag it as a kit car.
they do have serial numbers on the chassis that the teams and NASCAR uses for tracking them, and maybe even a few hidden ones that they don't tell anyone about just for when things like this happen.. every major component of the engine, transmission, and rear end likely also have serial numbers, and they know exactly which parts were on the car at the time it was stolen..
in other words, the car is all but useless to someone that might want to do anything but cut it into small little pieces to take to the scrap yard..
gamby wrote: Dafuq does someone do with it??? I didn't think there was much of a secondary market for current Cup cars. The tools in the trailer, on the other hand...
there probably wasn't anything in the trailer besides the car: it wasn't their main hauler, which was already at the track. it was a small enclosed trailer like anyone can buy at the local trailer emporium that had the car in it..
In reply to novaderrik:
$20XX Challenge engine donor. 
WAIT A MINUTE...
Drury Inn in Morrow, GA? I STAYED there last night!! 
. . . . and now we have a suspect! 
...and in October we get to see a little orange Miata with a NASCAR engine at the Challenge. Win!!
gamby wrote: Dafuq does someone do with it??? I didn't think there was much of a secondary market for current Cup cars. The tools in the trailer, on the other hand...
Apparently you dump it on the side of the road somewhere. The team posted a picture on their twitter acct showing the car sitting in grass and said "lost and found section of the road"
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