'Rare £400k Ferrari' stolen from Southrop, Lechlade, Glos

[turbobloke]

http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/update/2016-08...

Taken out of the garage

Ferrari aficionados will know more than a mere Ferrari enthusiast (me) so what is it...the 550 Barchetta Pininfarina was a limited production version of the 550 but ~400 examples were made iirc rather than 4. Also I would have thought more than 4 would be RHD, so await incoming...

[Magic919]

Maybe 4 silver UK cars.

[turbobloke]

Magic919 said:

Maybe 4 silver UK cars.

Could be, thanks.

Hopefully the owner will be reunited with it, but it looks like it was stolen to order with the thieves knowing when to act.

[Kyodo]

It'll almost certainly be heading overseas. Unless broken the car is too rare to be useable over here. Very sad for the owner

[Pioneer]

Shouldn't it be easy to find? My insurance company insisted on a minimum cat 6 tracker, pref. cat 5 for a vehicle worth 1/3 of that. I assume it has to have a top notch tracker on it in order for it to be insured.

[battered]

I think the problem is that they go in a container so no tracker signal. 6 2weeks on they pop up in outer wherever and the authorities there don't want to know. A garage removes the tracker, it's 're registered, sold on. The car doesn't come back to Europe, story ends.

[rubystone]

battered said:

I think the problem is that they go in a container so no tracker signal. 6 2weeks on they pop up in outer wherever and the authorities there don't want to know. A garage removes the tracker, it's 're registered, sold on. The car doesn't come back to Europe, story ends.

If you have a tracker, you'll know that this simply isn't true. I'd wager that this car didn't have one. If it does, it'll be parked somewhere and if it isn't picked up by the police, it'll be collected and broken or shipped offshore.

[battered]

rubystone said:

battered said:

I think the problem is that they go in a container so no tracker signal. 6 2weeks on they pop up in outer wherever and the authorities there don't want to know. A garage removes the tracker, it's 're registered, sold on. The car doesn't come back to Europe, story ends.

If you have a tracker, you'll know that this simply isn't true. I'd wager that this car didn't have one. If it does, it'll be parked somewhere and if it isn't picked up by the police, it'll be collected and broken or shipped offshore.

So the stories you hear about shipping container s are made up then? It would work, a radio transmitter can't transmit through steel.

[rich12]

Battery disconnected, tracker found and removed (very easy) then loaded into a truck/container and gone forever.

It's very sad but this is seemingly easy for them to do.

[Ferruccio]

rich12 said:

Battery disconnected, tracker found and removed (very easy) then loaded into a truck/container and gone forever.

It's very sad but this is seemingly easy for them to do.

I've had my Ducati stolen twice.
Got it back twice.
Good fitters hide the tracker well.
The thieve always disconnect the battery. But the tracker has its own battery.

The second time my bike was taken on to a gypsy encampment in south London.
The police were not pepared to get it for their own "safety".
After a week the thieves obviously thought that the tracker battery would have run out and moved the bike.
It hadn't.
The police got a free stolen van with my bike.

(The tracker people were fantastic, couldn't have done more. The police were almost deliberately obstructive.)

[jshell]

battered said:

It would work, a radio transmitter can't transmit through steel.

Which, of course, is complete, utter and unmitigated bks.

[Pioneer]

jshell said:

battered said:

It would work, a radio transmitter can't transmit through steel.

Which, of course, is complete, utter and unmitigated bks.

I was told as mine has VHF as well it will still work. Hopefully I'll never need to find out whether that's true. From the suppliers website:

"Unlike GPS or GSM only based systems, VHF can still recover your vehicle even if it is in an underground car park, a shipping container or transported in a covered trailer."

[jshell]

Pioneer said:

jshell said:

battered said:

It would work, a radio transmitter can't transmit through steel.

Which, of course, is complete, utter and unmitigated bks.

I was told as mine has VHF as well it will still work. Hopefully I'll never need to find out whether that's true. From the suppliers website:

"Unlike GPS or GSM only based systems, VHF can still recover your vehicle even if it is in an underground car park, a shipping container or transported in a covered trailer."

VHF radio transmitter works fine inside steel structures, I was using one for just over 7 years within multiple layers of enclosed steel...

[battered]

jshell said:

battered said:

It would work, a radio transmitter can't transmit through steel.

Which, of course, is complete, utter and unmitigated bks.

Thank you for this considered and scientifically accurate response.

Are you always a complete, utter and unmitigated ahole or is it just the meds not working today?

[jshell]

battered said:

jshell said:

battered said:

It would work, a radio transmitter can't transmit through steel.

Which, of course, is complete, utter and unmitigated bks.

Thank you for this considered and scientifically accurate response.

Are you always a complete, utter and unmitigated ahole or is it just the meds not working today?

No, only when people make BOLD statements of FACT that are complete, well, you know, bks...

[WCZ]

Ferruccio said:

The police were not prepared to get it for their own "safety".

:/

[anonymous-user]

Isn't this the same car that went missing from a storage company?

[Magic919]

No.

[anonymous-user]

It's a bloody ugly machine to be worth £400K imo.

I remember seeing one down in Sandbanks a lot.... it has some presence but it's not a good looker.

[Council Baby]

Where, exactly, is that worth £400k other than in a news story?