Vehicles involved in serious crime

[Stussy]

Bruce Reynolds Lotus Cortina used in the great train robbery. It was impounded for years by the police with only 3k on the clock, and sold off in the 80s.

[neutral 3]

Roy James S.1 3.8 E Type was also seized after the great train robbery. It too has survived.

[Wildcat45]

There must be lots of infamous wrecks around that eventually get cubed anonymously.

Airey Neave (Sp?) Cavalier is one that springs to mind.

In the mid 1990s I was chatting to a guy at his garage in Sunderland when he showed me a 1970s Maserati. It was US Spec but right hand drive and had been ordered by a successful American pimp. Right hand drive allowed him to speak to his "staff" on the sidewalk with ease. As I was sitting in it, the bloke told me how the pimp had been executed in the car by a rival gang.

[tomic]

Valerio Viccei, the guy who carried out the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit robbery, which was thought to be the biggest robbery ever at that point in the late 80's, was arrested in this early flying mirror Ferrari Testarossa in about 1989.

The Police smashed the windscreen in during the arrest, but there doesn't seem to be any record of it since then. I'd love to know what happened to it - There's no export marker showing.






Vehicle makeFERRARI
Date of first registrationJune 1986
Year of manufacture1986
Cylinder capacity4942 cc
CO? emissionsNot available
Fuel typePETROL
Euro statusNot available
Real Driving Emissions (RDE)Not available
Export markerNo
Vehicle statusUntaxed
Vehicle colourBLACK
Vehicle type approvalNot available
Wheelplan2 AXLE RIGID BODY
Revenue weightNot available
Date of last V5C (logbook) issued10 October 1990

Edited by tomic on Monday 6th January 16:10

[F424 NPE]

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F424 NPE. That Range Rover has probably the murkiest history of them all, with however many supposed sightings and appearances it put in over the years. A lot of them have been disputed but there's definitely a picture of that plate getting a speeding ticket from around 2004 or so as well.

If I had to guess, the cars either end up in police storage for the rest of time or are crushed. I have no proof of that and the fact people still discuss where the Range Rover from the aforementioned Rettendon murders got to would seem contrary, but it seems the most likely fate.
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[Poshbury]

After selling my custom V8 Cortina it was stolen and used as the getaway car in a gold robbery in Manchester in the early 80's.
It was found by GMP and impounded for 2 years before being sold.
It ended up in Hattersley where it was torched and destroyed.
Seemed a strange choice to use it in crime, but it was quick.

[Coog]

The Essex boys Range Rover has popped up on a raffle site. Not sure if genuine but remember reading this thread a while back and figured some of you may be interested:

https://rafelize.co.uk/product/win-the-range-rover...

[CRA1G]

A haunting image..... No record's held now with DVLA.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Ian Huntley's mk.3 Fiesta

[P5BNij]

Stussy said:

Bruce Reynolds Lotus Cortina used in the great train robbery. It was impounded for years by the police with only 3k on the clock, and sold off in the 80s.

It wasn't actually used in the robbery but he drove it around the area when planning the job, timing the run between Letherslade Farm and Bridego Bridge. For the robbery itself they used an ex-Army truck and two Landrovers, the truck and one of the Landies still survive. The Cortina came up for auction about five or six years ago and sold for about £100k

[CRA1G]

Boxer Freddie Mills was found shot dead in the back of his Citroen DS in Charing Cross in July 1965.

[S Barclay]

[texaxile]

Seems like Steve Wright's Mondeo was never used after 2006.

https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/video/second-man...

(Plate image at 1:58)

[Waitforme]

I think some of the cars used in serious crime should be set on fire with the perpetrators of said crimes locked inside.

[Draxindustries1]

P5BNij said:

Stussy said:

Bruce Reynolds Lotus Cortina used in the great train robbery. It was impounded for years by the police with only 3k on the clock, and sold off in the 80s.

It wasn't actually used in the robbery but he drove it around the area when planning the job, timing the run between Letherslade Farm and Bridego Bridge. For the robbery itself they used an ex-Army truck and two Landrovers, the truck and one of the Landies still survive. The Cortina came up for auction about five or six years ago and sold for about £100k

Reynolds had it booked in for tyre replacement from the original 6x13 crossplys for radials but obviously never happened.
My brother owns Colin Chapmans 63 LC , original paintwork, A frame with alloy diff carrier , alloy door skins and boot lid. 33k miles from new.

[P5BNij]

Draxindustries1 said:

P5BNij said:

Stussy said:

Bruce Reynolds Lotus Cortina used in the great train robbery. It was impounded for years by the police with only 3k on the clock, and sold off in the 80s.

It wasn't actually used in the robbery but he drove it around the area when planning the job, timing the run between Letherslade Farm and Bridego Bridge. For the robbery itself they used an ex-Army truck and two Landrovers, the truck and one of the Landies still survive. The Cortina came up for auction about five or six years ago and sold for about £100k

Reynolds had it booked in for tyre replacement from the original 6x13 crossplys for radials but obviously never happened.
My brother owns Colin Chapmans 63 LC , original paintwork, A frame with alloy diff carrier , alloy door skins and boot lid. 33k miles from new.

CC's very own LC, that is some prize

Paling into insignificance is my mate's Moggy Minor convertible which used to belong to Ted Moult, star of the old Everest double glazing adverts.

The year before Reynolds and his mob robbed the mail train in '63, they carried out a very successful raid on Heathrow Airport using a pair of nicked Mk2 Jags, the original plan for the train robbery was to used ten Mk2s but the thought of them looking very slightly conspicuous put the mockers on it. Another vehicle involved in the robbery also survives, one of the front two 'high value package' mail vans from the train itself, a pre-nationalisation LMS bogie van which (I think) resides on one of the preserved railways in East Anglia.



Reynolds' Lotus Cortina...

[ClaphamGT3]

pidsy said:

sleepera6 said:

Levin said:

Wonder how they managed to get the bits of brain out of it?

Or the stench of dead bodies.

Shudder

You’ve probably seen the same photos I have.
How that was ever cleaned properly, I do not know.

How or why beggars belief.

Dont forget that the limousine in which John Kennedy was assassinated was refurbished and returned to service as the Presidential limousine until the Ford presidency

[Levin]

Here's another car used in serious crime. Philip Smith, the spree killer who murdered three women in November 2000, drove this Volvo. The damaged headlight is actually the source of his third kill. He struck a woman, Carol Jordan, as she was walking. He battered her to death to stop her reporting the incident... because he was driving back from murdering his second victim, Rosemary Corcoran. It is, by quite some measure, the roughest looking Volvo 240 I've ever seen. It may have been squashed by now, for the photograph likely dates from late 2000 or very early 2001.

[Draxindustries1]

P5BNij said:

Draxindustries1 said:

P5BNij said:

Stussy said:

Bruce Reynolds Lotus Cortina used in the great train robbery. It was impounded for years by the police with only 3k on the clock, and sold off in the 80s.

It wasn't actually used in the robbery but he drove it around the area when planning the job, timing the run between Letherslade Farm and Bridego Bridge. For the robbery itself they used an ex-Army truck and two Landrovers, the truck and one of the Landies still survive. The Cortina came up for auction about five or six years ago and sold for about £100k

Reynolds had it booked in for tyre replacement from the original 6x13 crossplys for radials but obviously never happened.
My brother owns Colin Chapmans 63 LC , original paintwork, A frame with alloy diff carrier , alloy door skins and boot lid. 33k miles from new.

CC's very own LC, that is some prize

Paling into insignificance is my mate's Moggy Minor convertible which used to belong to Ted Moult, star of the old Everest double glazing adverts.

The year before Reynolds and his mob robbed the mail train in '63, they carried out a very successful raid on Heathrow Airport using a pair of nicked Mk2 Jags, the original plan for the train robbery was to used ten Mk2s but the thought of them looking very slightly conspicuous put the mockers on it. Another vehicle involved in the robbery also survives, one of the front two 'high value package' mail vans from the train itself, a pre-nationalisation LMS bogie van which (I think) resides on one of the preserved railways in East Anglia.



Reynolds' Lotus Cortina...

I would dearly love to own that over any other car in the world !(seriously).
My brothers car , also on a A plate is identical .
I keep badgering my brother to sell it even offering daft money but he won't budge. I do have first offer though..

[ClaphamGT3]

Not sure about the early 60s but, in the late 70s/early 80s, Chapman didnt typically drive a Lotus. His main car by then was always a Mercedes - that I recall, a C107 450SLC Mercedes, then a 450SE W116 S-Class and then a 500SEL W126 S-Class