This was just posted on Face book:



Looks to in pretty good condition other than the paint. Somebody is looking for their truck.

 

Looks to in pretty good condition other than the paint. Somebody is looking for their truck.[/quote]


or wanted it missing .

 

What, can't the cops look up the legal owner and call them? Instead it's posted on FB!?!

 

maybe they don't know where to find the vin. Or they couldn't find the 17 digit vin and thought it was missing.
If no one claims it I will take care of it.

 

I just drove through there on sunday. It must have fallen off the trailer and i didnt even notice. Thanks Bob, ill have to go back and get it this weekend!

 

OR maybe we're looking at a quick cover-up paint job of a truck that used to be another color before it was stolen. Plus if it's sub-framed, they obviously won't find a VIN number on the front frame horn. Let's keep an eye on this one. It might have a good ending........or we'll see somebody go to jail for insurance fraud, LOL.

 

I was on a link on FB

Do you know the owner of this truck?

If it was stolen maybe all the ID was removed or maybe when it was rebuilt the ID wasn't put back on. I drove my F-2 for 20 years without the original ID tag until I drove down to Doc's in '12. I finally stuck it on because I was going to drive through three other states that I wasn't familiar with.

 

Most likely the Police have no idea where to look for the identification numbers - No vin tag in the window it's a spaceship - If the take it to the garage for forensic inspection I doubt the BOOK has any information on where to find the ID number - Unless an officer knows someone with one or someone steps up to help it could take some time
Here's my scenario - The truck was in long term storage covered by a cloth tarp that messes up the cheap paint job - The evil people pushed the truck from the garage and used a winch to get it on the truck/trailer - When they got it to their garage they tried to start it - They turned the key and nothing happened - They jumped it and since the truck was a positive ground things began smoking - The evil guys decided that the truck was vexed and dropped in the nearest WallyWorld parking lot
That's my side of the story, hope everyone else remembers it.

 

My Little brother had his 78 F150 4X4 that had a lot of custom work done to it
stolen in the same damn town several years ago.

It was an auto shop that did custom work. And an inside job. He never got it back.
LEO is lazy there. Stands to reason to ask on FB so as to have others do there
work for them.

No I am not happy with the Grand Junction Police Department after what I seen my
brother go through. This happened in the late 80's and he had over 40k in it.
Don't know how much that would be in money today but a whole bunch. It had been
his wife's truck since new. And had a full frame off with a lot of custom work done.

Sorry rant over.

 

I'd suspect, from the stance that it doesn't have the original frame, or at least the front clip. Also looks like a very old restoration and of course it does not have a flathead.

 

My brother is a state Police Sargent and supervises 10 troopers. He says the young ones can't do anything that can't be done on a 'puter. So this seems consistent with that. Used to be crime investigation = searching the scene or thru the vehicle for clues. Now days investigation = posting it on FB. Anyway, I hope someone finds their truck.

 

This all leads into another, related discussion on why you should have your paperwork and title/registration issues in order. If something like this happens to you, it sure would be nice to be able to prove rightful ownership. Having legal identifying numbers that match your paperwork is really important.

We could speculate all day on the validity of the numbers and location (or lack thereof) of such on this truck, and the ability of law enforcement to do their job. Bottom line is I've had cops tell me flat out that unless they stumble onto the bad guys, the chances of finding them are pretty much nil. Their resources and time/money to investigate is limited and they figure most people have insurance to cover the loss so it's not a high priority. They have bigger fish to fry than finding a tool, car, or any other type of personal property thief. Hearing that didn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling as I walked through my place adding up over $10K in missing tools and equipment, but these are "just the facts, Maam."

 

Maybe some one in a year or so will have a chance to buy what looks like a decent truck for a decent price at a police auction.

 

One of the biggest contributing factors to this is the changes in police management that I witnessed over my 25 year career. The job became much more political each year. Politicians basically have taken over a lot of the Police service control, and while the motto of "Protect and Serve", sounds good, politicians saw more political capital in Serve than Protect. Manpower to do actual investigative work has been sacrificed in the advancement of making the public Think they are protected rather than actually being protected. In nearly every department, when you see a new Community policing position, don't think about that police officer or detective that is taken out of service. I worked in a 160 member department, with a total of 100 patrolman to cover12 beats 24/7. At any given time, we may have had anywhere from 3 to 9 of those beats covered. When the Dare program came along, three officers were taken off the streets permanently, never to be replaced. When they started the School Resource Officer program, we lost 7 officers and 2 detectives, never to be replaced. Those 3-9 officers on patrol answered 60K calls a year, the dare officers None, the SRO, averaged 10 calls per year total. By the time I retired, we had over 20 officers on PR type assignments, not allowed to answer any police calls. We were down to 80 officers in the patrol division and 15 detectives, 4 of which were permanently assigned outside the city 2 on a Homeland security detail, 1 on assignment with the FBI and 1 with the DEA. So we had 11 detectives, 5 assigned to narcotics and 6 to investigate about 30% the 60K cases on file.

 

Also keep in mind if it doesn't have the correct number of digits in the VIN (17) they may not be able to do a nation-wide search on it. The computer probably rejects it as invalid.

I have friends that are Kentucky State Police that tell me the same thing harleymsn just said. The KSP working in some rural counties can't depend on the local sheriff's department and sometimes backup could be 20-30 minutes away. I wouldn't do it for twice what they make.