STOLEN CHIMAERA

[jshorrock]

Please could people be on the lookout for a dark blue CHIMAERA 500 (Space Halcyon Blue to be precise - blue/purple in appearance). Reg is R736 YLC. It was stolen from Putney (London) on Tuesday 2nd September and had approx 21,500 miles on the clock. The plates may obviously have been changed, but there aren't that many of these around, so if anyone has any info or suspicions please contact the Police immediately. Thank you in advance for your help - a very distressed legal owner.

[gixxer1000]

Jonathan, sorry to hear this mate.

Do you have any photos you can post to give us a better chanve of spotting it?

[chimhunter]

Jonathan,

Sorry to hear it. How did it happen? Where was the car? I'm not far from Putney so this is a little concerning!

Rob

[jamer]

Jonathan

terrible news, very rare that they are stolen as where would they turn up??

Might be worth sticking a picture of her on this thread to jog anybodies memory that doesn't know the colour?

[jshorrock]

They broke into my house (smashed window and forced out the window lock) and took one of the two sets of keys I keep wrapped up in a jumper in a drawer - why they left the second set, I have no idea.

Unfortunately I don't have specific photos.

I really appreciate your concern and help with this - to say I'm gutted is a bit of an understatement at this time.

[simon t]

Utter BASTARDS!!!

[PetrolTed]

Weird that they'd go to that much trouble to steal this type of car. Not much they can do with it other than to enjoy the drive.

Don't suppose there's a Tracker on it?

[craigw]

I'm in Wandsworth, will keep my eye out. Sorry to hear of your troubles.

[beano500]

So sorry to hear this.

We should have to put up with this, but it's one of those nasty facts of modern life.

Thankfully TVRs are rarely targetted, because as already mentioned by our right honourable friend, where would it go? - it cannot be off loaded because there's such a relatively small and well known network of dealers and owners.

Here's hoping for a happy ending

[Big Al.]

Sorry to hear this, not a lot I can do other than give the duplicate post a sticky for awhile over on the Chim forum.


Hope this helps.

>> Edited by Big Al. on Friday 5th September 12:38

[jshorrock]

many thanks - I've put a note on the Chimaera chat site too. Only thing people can kindly do is to take a second look at any blue Chimaera 500s they come across.

[shadowninja]

jshorrock said:

They broke into my house (smashed window and forced out the window lock) and took one of the two sets of keys I keep wrapped up in a jumper in a drawer - why they left the second set, I have no idea. Unfortunately I don't have specific photos. I really appreciate your concern and help with this - to say I'm gutted is a bit of an understatement at this time.

I suppose you should count yourself lucky they found the keys without needing to pull a knife on your or your family and demand the location of the keys...

Hope you get it back!

[HeyAndy]

Sorry to hear to that mate.

Had exactly the same experience a few years ago. Whilst me and my wife we sleeping theives broke into our house through our kitchen picked up the keys to my new A Class Merc and walked out the front door. Unusually for me, I never heard a sound. That same night the thieves did 2 more houses in our street.

My car was found 13 weeks later bound for Jamaica. Get this, the person looking after our claim at Directline also had her BMW nicked which turned up in the same container at the same time our car was found.

Hang tight. Your car will turn up.

[Joe Cozy]

I saw a dark blue Chimaera parked off Lavender Hill, SW11 a couple of days ago. Have never seen it around before. The road it was parked on was the left turn as you drive up the hill from Clapham Junction - just before the intersection of Lavender Hill and Latchmere road (the left turn before the lights)

I will let you know road name next time I pass by. I will keep an eye out as it's a coincidence...

Sorry to hear the bad news.

[plotloss]

I go through Putney daily so will of course keep my eye out.

Sorry to hear of your loss, scum like this should be burned.

[stainless_steve]

When you get it back,i hope the police give you 10 minutes with the thieves, oyea and a baseball bat.
hope you get it back unmarked

Steve

[chinny]

Hangings to good for the basterds!!!!

Hope you get your car back mate. Will keep a look out.

[jessica]

Thinking about it my car was in the dealer yesterday ,and I had there car.So I went to Knutsford.We saw a chim same col as Lil,pugs.(Fill us in on yer colour Paul).cannot rem reg.

[wedg1e]

It's all very well saying that there aren't many places to dispose of it, but that's overlooking the cars that are written-off by those fellows who acquire the means to buy a TVR, but not the skills to drive one. So the insurance gives them a fat payout and they are quietly relieved to see the back of the car. The remains, of course, duly turn up a a motor salvage auction, which events are of course attended by all manner of low-life scallies looking for a fast buck. So they buy the crumbly ruin, take it to a quiet lockup somewhere and ring their mates to keep an eye out for a similar model. Then, it's just a mater of lifting the keys, taking the car and swapping the numbers. Even if they admit that the car they are selling has been crashed, too many people will still buy it because it's a shiny thing and appears to be fine (which of course it is). Paint costs buttons, relatively speaking, so a respray isn't a worry. The bits that are left of the crashed car can then be unceremoniously dumped in a skip/ weighed in for scrap/ sold off on Ebay. Possibly worst case of this: I seem to remember a certain 400SE that was found to be a ringer, wearing the ID of a Tasmin almost 10 years older...

Ian

[Joe Cozy]

Name of the road in SW11 I saw the blue CHim on was Kathleen Road. I didn't see it there this weekend.