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Title: STOLEN
Post by: david036 on 17 September 2010, 09:13:40
Last night we had a MK5 Cortina stolen from Bolton
Its a 5 door in Highland Green
Reg is HNB 938V

If anybody see's or hears anything please let me know

Thanks
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Post by: Jimbob on 17 September 2010, 09:15:51
sorry to hear that  >:(
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Post by: Proz on 17 September 2010, 09:24:04
Should be easy enough to spot at least if its being driven around .... theiving scum  >:( >:(
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Post by: david036 on 17 September 2010, 09:25:16
Hoping it'll be spotted somewhere...and doesn't just get weight in by some little scum bag
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Post by: smithpa7 on 17 September 2010, 09:31:31
The Cortina was always an easy car to steal. I hope they have just decided to pop the lock and used it to get home and have left it in good order nearby.

Everything crossed for a speedy return.
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Post by: The Red Baron on 17 September 2010, 09:35:33
bad news dave, hope its found soon mate. :(
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Post by: david036 on 17 September 2010, 09:39:32
It would appear that they've done the locks as there wasn't the tell tale glass on the floor, unless theives now carry dustpans and brushes!!!!
Still they wouldn't have got too far as there wasn't much fuel in.
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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 17 September 2010, 09:48:49
Sad news D :( - Hope you get an early and positive resolution to this. :y :y
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Post by: Unicornrider on 17 September 2010, 14:27:34
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It would appear that they've done the locks as there wasn't the tell tale glass on the floor, unless theives now carry dustpans and brushes!!!!
Still they wouldn't have got too far as there wasn't much fuel in.


With this is mind i assume youve hit all the local petrol stations with Reg of car and discription. :y
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Post by: Danny on 17 September 2010, 14:29:34
i'll keep my eyes out Dave
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Post by: Teebee on 17 September 2010, 14:46:52
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It would appear that they've done the locks as there wasn't the tell tale glass on the floor, unless theives now carry dustpans and brushes!!!!
Still they wouldn't have got too far as there wasn't much fuel in.
Hate to sound the profit of doom but round here we've had a few cases of older cars going walkies off driveways, coincidentally I had a guy ask me about my mig yesterday as I was working on it. I believe they look for cars on drives with expired tax discs and then come in with a spectacle lift, probably assuming that a lot of people won't bother reporting it as it's obviously broken etc.
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Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 17 September 2010, 14:53:45
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It would appear that they've done the locks as there wasn't the tell tale glass on the floor, unless theives now carry dustpans and brushes!!!!
Still they wouldn't have got too far as there wasn't much fuel in.

Hopefuly they knew that they are dead easy to get into with a coat hanger or a narrow piece of hardboard.

Fingers crossed
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Post by: aaronjb on 17 September 2010, 14:57:23
Indeed - fingers crossed you get it back!

(And find the thieves so you can set about them with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers)
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Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 17 September 2010, 17:13:24
That is very bad news indeed!! :'( :'( :'(

A classic like that is going to be easy to spot one hopes, and as the Cortina always was an easy car to get into and start without keys (or with vitually any key!!) it has probably been nicked to just get someone home! ::) ::) ::)

The police should have no trouble spotting it ;)
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Post by: Andy B on 17 September 2010, 17:14:03
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Hopefuly they knew that they are dead easy to get into with a coat hanger or a narrow piece of hardboard.

Fingers crossed

you didn't need to go to that much effort on mine, A N Other similar key would get in.  :-?  :y :y
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Post by: Vamps on 17 September 2010, 23:33:36
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It would appear that they've done the locks as there wasn't the tell tale glass on the floor, unless theives now carry dustpans and brushes!!!!
Still they wouldn't have got too far as there wasn't much fuel in.

Hopefuly they knew that they are dead easy to get into with a coat hanger or a narrow piece of hardboard.

Fingers crossed


I can do, and have done, that on an Omega, not with hardboard though..... :D :D
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Post by: Psychoca on 18 September 2010, 23:59:27
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Indeed - fingers crossed you get it back!

(And find the thieves so you can set about them with a blowtorch and a pair of pliers)

I personally prefer my black and decker and a mallet to be honest...  just for starters...  A blow torch and pliers is much further down my list, but, for thieves, shattered fingers and drilled kneecaps should do the job quite nicely as far as I'm concerned...
Title: Re: STOLEN
Post by: damon80 on 19 September 2010, 03:14:11
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Last night we had a MK5 Cortina stolen from Bolton
Its a 5 door in Highland Green
Reg is HNB 938V

If anybody see's or hears anything please let me know

Thanks

Bar-stewards!  >:(  >:(

I do a fair few miles around the North West with work, and have made a note of the reg number.

Hope she turns up in one piece  :y
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Post by: david036 on 19 September 2010, 09:19:28
We went round all the local scrapyards yesterday and no sign of her!
Still hoping she'll turn up in one piece  :) :)
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Post by: OMEEEGAH on 19 September 2010, 11:59:30
when we were at school i told me mate how easy it was to break into a cortina and our teacher had one,we nicked a fork from the canteen and broke the two prongs on the ends off and bent the middle two inwards and we succesfully entered our w reg yellow victim. its so easy its not funny with them type locks.

as for the cortina in question if its not been parked up somewhere i unfortunately think it will end up going round bell vue or buxton and getting smashed to smithereens as them hooligans want stuff like that to race  :-?
Title: Re: STOLEN
Post by: david036 on 19 September 2010, 19:10:29
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when we were at school i told me mate how easy it was to break into a cortina and our teacher had one,we nicked a fork from the canteen and broke the two prongs on the ends off and bent the middle two inwards and we succesfully entered our w reg yellow victim. its so easy its not funny with them type locks.
as for the cortina in question if its not been parked up somewhere i unfortunately think it will end up going round bell vue or buxton and getting smashed to smithereens as them hooligans want stuff like that to race  :-?

We've still not had any luck in finding the old girl.  Could be anywhere by now, but still have a feeling its a car!!!
Don't think it'll end up on the track as we now most of the racers in the area and they all know the car and that it belongs to fellow racers!!!!!
Title: Re: STOLEN
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 19 September 2010, 20:39:12
If you have any pictures they may be worth posting as they will jog peoples memory easier than rememdering a reg number on it;s own.