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Stolen car returns

Summary

17 July 2012

An American man has been reunited with the sports car he thought he'd lost for ever after he spotted¹ it on the online auction² site eBay. Bob Russell last saw his car nearly 42 years ago before it was stolen from his home in Philadelphia.

Reporter:

Janet Barrie

Report

Bob Russell says he never gave up the search for his beloved 1967 Austin-Healey. One day in 1970, when he was a student in Philadelphia, he came home after a night out with the woman who's now his wife, and realised his car had vanished. Nearly 42 years later Mr Russell was browsing³ the online marketplace eBay when he spotted something familiar. 

All these years he'd kept the car's papers and keys. He searched them out, and saw the vehicle registration⁴ number on the website matched the one on the title certificate of his long-lost sports car. He told the police, who tracked the car down to a dealership⁵ in Los Angeles, and confirmed it was indeed Bob Russell's Austin-Healey. 

Mr Russell said he paid $3,000 for it in 1967 - and it's now worth eight times that much. He says though it wasn't the money that made him to search for it for over four decades - what mattered was the sentimental⁶ value it held for him and his wife.