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Woodward’s Nightmare: Cars Stolen During The Woodward Dream Cruise – We Need Your Help To Find These Cars!


Woodward’s Nightmare: Cars Stolen During The Woodward Dream Cruise – We Need Your Help To Find These Cars!

Car thieves suck, pure and simple. It doesn’t matter if they stole the parts car from your yard for scrap metal money or your high-dollar, investment-heavy ride that you busted your ass for years on to build, once it’s gone all that you are left is a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach and the hope that your car is found before it’s boxed up and shipped overseas or worse, found as a burnt carcass. This year’s Woodward Dream Cruise was hit hard this year, with three cars that we know of gone:

  • The gold-and-black 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 that belongs to “Papa John” Schnatter. This is the car that Schnatter sold in 1983 and bought back in 2009.
  • a black 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle 300 Deluxe with vintage North Carolina plates, along with it’s 2007 Chevrolet Silverado tow vehicle and trailer.
  •  a red 1966 Chevrolet Corvette convertible with Michigan plates “ITSMY66”.

All three vehicles disappeared on Sunday, after the cruise.

camaro

While finding these assholes and rendering street justice with golf clubs would be nice, we’d be just as happy, if not more so, to see these cars returned to their rightful owners in one piece. If you have any information on any of the three cars stolen, be sure to call 1-800-242-HEAT.

CLICK HERE to see the news report from WXYX Detroit


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6 thoughts on “Woodward’s Nightmare: Cars Stolen During The Woodward Dream Cruise – We Need Your Help To Find These Cars!

  1. anthony

    You cant be too careful to prevent this from happening. Dont listen to your friends telling you”you’re being paranoid”.

  2. jerry z

    It’s hard to believe someone stole the Papa John Camaro. You would think that car would have good security.

  3. Ed Chesher

    There was a ’65 and ’66 Vette stolen. One was inside a parking garage with the top down, the other outside a reataurant. The ’66 Chevelle was on a trailer, which was attached to an ’07 Silverado. All these vehicles were taken while at the dream cruise in the suburbs of Detroit.

    The Papa Johns Camaro and trailer it was inside was the only one stolen from inside the city limits. Both trailer and Camaro were recovered the next day, along with an additional stolen vehicle, a truck, which was attached to the stolen trailer.

    Over the years I have learned that it is not uncommon for vehicles to get stolen while in ANY city for a car show. It often seems that the most common way to steal them is from a hotel parking lot, taking truck, trailer, and car all as a package.

    As an officer that recently worked in our auto theft division here in Detroit, I would STRONGLY encourage you to install gps tracking on your vehicle. Make sure it has its own power supply, and does not depend upon battery alone. Also make sure it is well hidden. I know my Camaro will have it upon getting back on the road. The recovery of vehicles with gps has to be about 100%, and the location is very accurate!

    – DPD officer

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