Juliano's Mod Top Hemicuda

[ledphoot]

Steeling this car is like walking in to the New York City Museum of Modern Art and steeling Van Gogh's Starry Night. You could never show anybody what you had. Sad that somebody would do this, it's such a unique and interesting car that had so much effort put in to it's restoration.

[RzeroB]

   Years from now it will be featured in a new TV episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" ... like what ever happened to Amelia Earhart and such. 

[torredcuda]

Either the thieves had a buyer who has it hidden away or it was parted out for all the factory and NOS parts used - both scenarios suck. 

[Purepony]

I mean honestly if I had the car in a super vault and couldn't drive it only sit in it and know I have it I'd be ok with that!

I wouldn't really care about showing it or anything like that. I mean a car like that you can't even drive

I doubt it was parted but who knows

[Purepony]

Lolz that would cool but the truth is we're the only ones that care so no one would probably noticed.

Now if it was Justin beavers cuda I'm sure they would have found it by now lolz that clowns always coming up

[anlauto]

The car is so unique you could never take it out, without totally changing it's look....which defeats the purpose of stealing it...unless you need parts to build another Hemicuda.

[Purepony]

There's only two cars to me that really even give me the chills

This cuda and the Shelby 500 that Jim Morrison owned that was also never found

[1972V21Cuda]

There would be no way to keep the car. I'm sure it was cut up for parts and sold off..

[Purepony]

Doubt it, whoever took that car knew what it was. That's like trashing a Picasso

[mccannix]

It will likely languish for years in some bazillionaires games room or self proclaimed museum as a conversation piece, much like James Deans wrecked Porsche Spyder did after the 1955 wrecks partial remains were stolen in 1960 and never seen again.
Plenty of mystery, death, conspiracy theories followed that cursed car for years.
Until the reports recently that after 65 years, 'The Little Bastard' as it was dubbed, has been found and untombed.
If the Modtop Hemicuda follows that scenario, most, if not all of us here will not be around to see it.

[Purepony]

Well put
I agree ! Just knowing you have it legal or not

[70 Top Banana]

So I have a thought and a story. Could the car be changed enough to not be immediately recognized? Rip the top off the car, paint etc?
Here is the story. This was a long time ago and tracing a car today is, I believe, much easier. That said, I have a friend and ex neighbor State police detective who seized a GTO from a man whose wife bought the car as a 40th birthday gift. She way overpaid for the kind of car that it was, but hey what a gal! They had the car for about 4 years or so. It seems the car was stolen not long after it was purchased new in Las Vegas Nevada. The car was repainted, after market wheels on the car and over the years and ownership many changes were made.  So here is the rest of the story. Whoever stole the car had a clean title from a wrecked GTO. According to my neighbor, all the thieves did was repaint the car to match the color on the title and sold it to a used car lot. The used car lot then sold it to someone who then sold it etc.. etc.. until the last owners wife bought the car. According to my ex neighbor, he told me that no one must have matched the vin on the car to the vin on the title. Hard to believe but that is what he told me.
What I don't remember is how he found out the car did not have a legit title??

[headejm]

There might (probably) be a back story that we don't know about. The Steve McQueen Bullitt mustang evaded thieves for many years and it is worth as much or more than this fantastic E-body. I believe it just sold for $3.4M. Not bad for an iconic car desperate for a refurbishment.

P.S. That might be the #1 coolest E-body ever built.

[Montclaire]

Probably overseas where it doesn't matter. And with that top, I'd guess one of the Asian countries.

[anlauto]

Probably overseas where it doesn't matter. And with that top, I'd guess one of the Asian countries.

That's racist ...