Man's car found 37 years after it was stolen:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-corvette18jan18,0,7602527.storyWith a grin, Alan Poster jumped into the driver's seat of the Chevrolet Corvette that was stolen from him nearly 37 years ago. But he didn't get far.
The gleaming silver convertible's gas tank was still missing.
Nonetheless, the return of his 1968 sports car Tuesday in Carson was a sweet moment for the Petaluma man who long ago gave up hope he would ever see it again.
"It's unbelievable. It's absolutely beautiful," said Poster, 63. "Now I've got to figure what it means ? why this came back to me."
The answer to the second part of that is easy.
The stolen two-seater was discovered last month in a Sweden-bound shipping container at the Port of Los Angeles by customs and California Highway Patrol officers conducting a routine check of cars being exported. When its vehicle identification number was run through an insurance industry data base that lists cars stolen in this country since 1968, the Corvette popped up as having been swiped Jan. 22, 1969, in New York City.
New York police traced Poster to California. Then they phoned him with the startling news.
"I thought it was a joke when they called and asked if I had a car stolen in 1969 and then told me it had been recovered," Poster said.
