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Keep your eyes out for stolen turbo Buick parts. 5 turbo Buick's stolen from BG

PhillyTurboSix

PhillyTurboSix

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That's right. FIVE turbo Buick's (as of now) were stolen Saturday night into Sunday morning from the GS nationals in Bowling Green, KY this past weekend. Some of them had their tow vehicles stolen with the cars on the trailers. While it sounds like a semi professional crew did this, just keep an eye out for any shady parts showing up on the forums, craigslist, eBay, etc. and report it to your local police. I was going to take one of my cars down kinda glad I didn't. Plus all I saw on facebook was pictures of wrecks down there this year. Seemed like a lot of people going into the walls.

This has to be the largest amount of turbo Buick's stolen in one place at one time in history that's for sure. Sad part is even if they do catch them a slap on the wrist and booted back out to the street is all they typically get! But keep your eyes out and report anything suspicious you see. Hopefully they all were insured for their losses. While insurance money does not help when it comes to the blood, sweat, and tears we put into these cars, at least it helps the pain a little!
 
They were stolen from the hotels in the area Saturday night into Sunday morning. Seems one of them was a 3 car carrier with 3 turbo Buick's on it! The other 2 were single cars on trailers.

This is why at the BPG event in Ohio we hired armed security guys walking around the parking lots of the hotels ALL night every night. These hotel's don't care about your car. All they care about is the digits on that credit card in your wallet. To hire those armed guys to walk around the track and hotels at night in Ohio cost money. That cuts into profits the event makes and that's why most events don't bother with security at the hotels. But that's why I wanted to use Ohio for the TTA reunion because of the armed security they use at the track and hotels. Knock on wood not one car was stolen from Ohio at that event in the past years. But then again the Buick event in Bowling Green has had many cars stolen over the years at that event. Hopefully those insurance policy's were paid up!
 
this is really sad news to the comunity, ive always wanted to go but i like my buick and trailer ALOT !
 
One of the car/truck/trailer combos that was stolen:

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looks like a really nice an fast car wheel keep eyes open ... im not scared to write down a vin #
 
As of noon today...

All vehicles were spotted traveling north I-75 heading towards Michigian. The convoy was spotted on I-75 around 12 noon on Sunday around Sidney, OH milemarker 93. The truck in the pic above that carlos posted was leading the pack.

I can't believe they were all traveling together. You would think they would take different routes to where ever they are taking the cars. Keep your eyes out if your in these areas and call your local police if you see anything.

Tag on Billy T's GN: NJ: ZW749F
Tag on his trailer: NJ: T40B2Y

Truck is a black 1997 F250 SuperCab, 8' bed (old body style)
Car is 1987 Buick Grand National (8.50 car).
 
Not sure on the follow up. Just trying to pass along the info as I get it for the folks that might live in the area. I believe one of the security camera's at the hotel where the other truck was stolen they saw 2 black males with gray hooded sweatshirts on. Seems it all went down around 4 or 5am range.
 
Just sucks...

No amount of money can replace the time, effort, and emotional attachment to the cars. A stock car can be replaced a lot easier then Billy's 8.50 cert'd car...

I know the truck and trailer were stolen before 5, but not sure how long before.
 
I live in Detroit area ... I'll keep my eyes open on Craigslist ... etc. This sucks and we all owe Jim a grateful thanks for making sure the extra money was spent on security at the reunion!
 
I checked a few local craigslists yesterday and no GN parts, etc posted since Oct 22nd. I will check periodically. That really sucks and it is the unfortunate direction this country is going. Feel really bad for the victims.

Agree with PhillyD-big thanks to Jim and all involved at the TTA reunion. I felt really safe there and it didnt seem to me there were any undesirables at the event.
 
Thanks guys. That was one of the main reasons I picked the BPG event venue for the reunion. I would have never been able to sleep at night if someone's TTA was stolen at the event! It's one of those small things that if something happens it makes headlines all over but if nothing happens no one thinks nothing of it. They actually had security at the hotel where one of the truck,trailer, and cars was stolen from, but it was some old retired guy who was most likely sleeping. When I woke up that one morning in Ohio at 4am and saw that guy walking around the lot over and over it made me happy inside that's for sure. Hopefully these guys get their cars back but it really sounds like semi-professionals thought this one out and had this plan into action for sometime before the event.
 
those cars are worth more in parts. The time to recover them was when they all were spotted after being stolen. Now they are gone. Those parts are worth a fortune. And they are worth more sold individually. A set of pistons, a cam, etc. unless the losers who stole them are so stupid as to attempt to sell them as whole cars or whole motors. They could be that stupid if they trailer them in open trailers. And trailer them with the same trailers they stole them on. And trailer them on the same stolen trailers with the same stolen trucks. And trailer them on the same stolen trailers with the same stolen trucks all in a convoy with the other stolen trailers and trucks. Probably right to their house. what idiots. I suppose the only ones dumber than them are the people who knew they were stolen and saw the convoy and did not see to it that these african american males were apprehended. And the property recovered. That way, they could get r.o.r.'d in time to re-steal the rigs from the police impound lot and continue the trip.
 
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