BUCKSPORT, Maine — Police are asking for the public’s help tracking down a 33-year-old sports car stolen from a home in town.
Sometime within the past several weeks — likely in late April — someone backed a flatbed truck into the driveway of an unoccupied home on Route 15/River Road and loaded a white 1979 Mazda RX7 onto the truck’s ramp. The truck, which did not have any logos on it, later was spotted northbound on Route 15 toward Brewer.
Sgt. David Winchester of the Bucksport Police Department said the car had a white exterior and a plaid red interior. The car was not operable at the time but was in fair condition. The car’s vehicle identification number, or VIN, is AS22C509552.
Winchester is asking anyone who may have spotted the truck or knows anything about the car to call him at 469-7951.
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My car was stolen from Rte 9. After it had been in someone’s tow yard for 30 days, I got a request for the title or payment of 30 days storage, even though I had never been notified they had the car. The MSP were responsible for the road that day, and my car was already gone by the time the person I had contracted with arrived to pick it up.
Needless to say, the “businessman” who picked it up got nothing, not even the title. I told him if he wanted the title, he would have to convert it legally himself and that I wasn’t going to give him money. The MSP, after an investigation with the Sheriff’s Dept. determined that the car had not been towed by either agency, and a File One report was generated by the MSP. This “businessman” said he was told to take it by the Sheriff’s Dept. the day after it went missing. It was an older car and the transmission had burnt out totally and the engine compartment had had a fire, so it was no real loss to me. But I do believe, the individual in question, was literally holding the car thinking he would get 30 days storage.