Stolen Cars - Top Gear 1993

[@Brad-lt6mr]

The motor trade was like the wild west, back then. I remember MOT certs and cover notes changing hands for £20. It was so easy to ring or clone in those days.

[@zetametallic]

This happened to my Dad. He bought a Fiat Uno F reg back in the mid 1990's from a dodgy area. It was a good car, I really liked it and was planning to inherit it after passing my test. However, some months later we noticed a B reg etched into every window and the VIN plate scratched over. In a state of panic my dad sold it off super cheap to a bloke who wasn't even bothered about it being a possible ringer!

[@Kiinell]

If you bought a Morris Marina and it turned out to be stolen at least nobody would want it back.

[@williamwoods8022]

Oh Dear! The Marina was a top seller for most of the time it was being made and was popular on the second hand market as well and millions of people who owned them were happy with them as they did what they were designed to do - cheap and reliable cars - and that includes me who owned a 1978 Marina 1.8 HL/TC which was an excellent reliable and fast car back then and I would still have owned that car today if it hadn't been written off in an accident. My brother owned a Mk1 Marina 1.8 before that as well and that car was an excellent reliable car as well. No wonder these Mafias being exposed in this video here manage to sucker and con most of the people on this planet who owne and control most of this planet including the media kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2nUp2ywqdCKlbc

[@cableguy786]

😆

[@gc7820]

It was probably left unlocked with the key in the ingnition to make sure

[@char_ytt]

@@williamwoods8022 Sire, what?

[@greenbunnyinabongo7299]

😂😂😂

[@beijingbond]

Some classics in that pound....XR2 MK1, RS Turbo mk4...

[@MrSupercar55]

This makes my blood boil. Cars are expensive things. Car insurance companies won’t give a shit. They want two things only. Money and more money.

[@Tracert-mc1hu]

I really don't understand why they don't use a system similar to the US where if a car is crashed badly enough, it's given a junk title or certificate of destruction to where it is nearly impossible to put back on the road. That means that thieves would have to buy a salvage title car in which case the car has to be thoroughly inspected, and even then, title will almost always show up as rebuilt which scares off most every buyer.

[@energymc22]

They do now days. This was 30 years back

[@skylined5534]

@@energymc22 They did then as well.

[@ウェストディクエーイダン]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6LLnoBnia6so8k , someone posted an early 1970s FBI training film about identifying stolen cars. Pretty much everything mentioned in this top gear clip was brought up in said film.

[@energymc22]

5:20 - likewise a private seller would be just as foolish to accept a cheque

[@amytysoe2292]

Seeing this bit reminds me that there were a lot of similar segments in early-90s top gear that basically boiled down to 'never buy or sell privately, always go through a dealer'

[@mitsostechtips9047]

Here in Greece we got a different thing that annoys me, people junk classic cars that were sitting in a closed garage for years or anything like that, and we got a law that you can’t legally drive those cars anymore if the owner takes it to the junkyard, imagine seeing a classic Shelby cobra and not being able to do anything about it other than seeing it being destroyed by the crane + crushed

[@ibobeko4309]

In Turkey when a vehicle (anything on the street, cars, trucks, bikes) been towed, the cars are been send to a holding facility, held there until you can pay the fine and if you cant the car rots there forever. There are over 1 million cars, rotting there. There is no auction, nothing. 1 million working cars are just rotting there.

[@thetruthwillout3347]

Happened to my mate in 1993....Astra GTE 8v turned out to be a ringer. Lost the car and his money. Shame really as it a very nice car. Not as good as my RS Turbo!

[@fasthracing]

Cheapskate should of bought the 16v. The 8v had plastic wheel trims for gods sake.

[@SjplayinCODMO]

@@fasthracing I had GTE16v I was in my teens.....forever breaking drive shafts. Rs was the car though. 😁👍

[@adrianwhetton6674]

“His name should be on the log book” ? Didn’t women buy cars in the 90s ? 🤣

[@killerdinamo08]

The buyer 😅.

[@cactus3796]

i noticed that too lmao

[@MrSupercar55]

Oh trust me they did. My mum bought an Austin Maestro when I was born (the year that happened was 1993).

[@Sainbres]

At the time it was a practice in english if the gender of the person wan't know to refer to them with male pronouns. I was taking the mickey out of an old rulebook from a 70s board game on holiday recently and my mum informed me it was good english and thats what she was taught. Bias' are very real and were even more prevalent back in the day.

[@tristan6509]

@@Sainbres male is just the default in english, while in welsh for example, "she" is used more than he. Male pronouns are generally gender neutral in english It's not bias, that's just how languages work. Infact english isn't even as bad as french where items have a gender.

[@pureboxofscartcables]

Learn the trade, make a mint then grass everyone else. Nice one Quentin.

[@insertnamehere5146]

HPI checks were around in the 1990s which would flag the car as a write-off/stolen. People were too tight to cough up back then and likely now

[@giancarlolugo9586]

Poor MR2 0:17

[@abigailbailey5159]

Both companies featured Hewitt salvage and universal salvage were Bought by the larger US salvage company Copart

[@TheCinderellaman10]

I want to go back to the 80's 😇 not for the motors but to relive my childhood and good TV and good community

[@HaggisMuncher-y2u]

Too many diversity people destroying our sense of community.

[@RoadCone411]

Identify theft - automobile edition

[@thebigworldofnz]

Something similar happens in New Zealand They nick the hilux take the motor out and dump it I can't imagine how many Nissan Terranos and Toyota Hiluxes have stolen engines in them Found 6 at one spot once

[@tonysilliker5977]

A well done ringer is impossible to find. I know these things...

[@DeezNuts-jh1hh]

Easy there bad man

[@megataurus7779]

Sure you do Tony,your also in the mafia eh? 😅

[@greenbunnyinabongo7299]

That severed hand still visible in the cavalier CDi put me right off my dinner 🤮

[@CycolacFan]

Where was that?

[@patrickwalsh7439]

That’s Banbury 😊 at 5.25

[@johnniethepom2905]

Thanks for that . I knew I'd been there , but couldn't recall the name of the place .

[@cactus3796]

5:11 weird how they said 'his' back then instead of 'their'

[@des9655]

White BMW 5 series!!

[@marcuswells6497]

Yummy metro GTI spi. I wonder if they have the towing eye & side skirt Jack point covers 😂🤷‍♂️

[@Stickleback]

2:22 I had a Red one too!

[@CycolacFan]

Good thinking clocking mileages is a victimless crime eh Quentin? 😉

[@mirisch64]

5:24 HubNut?

[@jacobthefiend]

the 2cv?

[@niall7439]

Is that ian or just a similar looking 2cv? lol, oh no his is a c plate. Nice spot though

[@Wreck-Gar]

First thing I thought, ELLIE! 😀👍

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

Cars were way too easy to steal back then.. All you needed was a screwdriver in most cases.

[@adamharris5355]

For some reason this wont play

[@DangermuffinVideos]

That's strange :(

[@WhuDhat]

have you tried turning it off and back on again? lol

[@WhuDhat]

as much as I sympathize with victims of auto theft, I can't help but imagine the thrill of.. re appropriating a Lotus Carlton or TVR and hitting V-Max with or without a..follower lol

[@ICHall-og5zk]

Yet if you were mis-sold PPI you got your money back So why cant you get the money back if you buy a ringer ?

[@alanbarden9778]

Surely the owner of the wrecked car could just rip the original VIN plate off and destroy the other identifiers before it goes to the wreckers? This would stop anyone from transferring any VIN ?

[@bigsohc]

They probably don't care

[@farhanatashiga3721]

Ia this still a problem today? I hope not

[@Alexander_l322]

Need a license to buy cat b and cat b can’t go back on the road anyway so no point using it for a ringer. Cat S and cat N are repairable salvage so could be used to ring up a stolen car but they are that cheap but still could be worth using to ring up a stolen car or use the stolen car for the parts to fix the damaged one.

[@dr2stroke611]

it doesnt happen as much now. it was huge back in the 1980's and 90's.

[@poached_egg_on_cars]

@@Alexander_l322 I used to know someone who did these 'Ringer' cars. Didn't steal them, he just did the Vin transfers. The stolen cars identity would be changed over to one of a bare shell that's been bought. He would find a shell for not much money, make sure its got all the bits and pieces with it like V5 information, and then do the swap that way, and what was left of the shell was cut up and sold to the pikeys for scrap metal. He used to do a fair few S2000s, as they were plentiful, easy to steal, not worth much as projects but worth a lot finished.

[@enemyofthestatewearein7945]

It's pretty much impossible now since they introduced VID checks, any car that's been written off has to be physically checked by VOSA inspectors (to check it's the original car, repaired) before DVLA will issue a new V5.

[@dr2stroke611]

@@enemyofthestatewearein7945 they did away with VIC checks when they introduced Cat's S and N

[@Lee-dr8qe]

Tony tucker at 8 seconds 😎

[@sparkie1401]

My old boss lmao

[@abc33944]

lol

[@irfaan7868]

Loll

[@jacknapier7036]

where is this couple now?

[@afisher0613]

He was shagging her sister. Terrible stuff

[@Halo.H]

Divorced probably?

[@jacknapier7036]

@@Halo.H 😂

[@jacknapier7036]

@@Halo.H did you know them 😏 😳 🤔 hmm

[@ashd4186]

Still happens now in UK, know a few who do it

[@gc7820]

The picture for this video has a maestro front and centre - what kind of sick minded psycho monster nicks a maestro?!?! If your going to jail for joyriding at least ride in something you’ll have a bit of joy driving 😆

[@MrSupercar55]

What’s wrong with that? My mum had a Maestro when I was a little kid in the 1990’s. It was, as cars from that era go, pretty good.

[@thomasmason2433]

MG Maestro has a bit of oomph.

[@godsson7787]

First car I drove aged 11 🤣

[@skylined5534]

They went well, handled well, drove well... what's wrong with that?

[@CycolacFan]

There was a Maxi in that yard too.

[@earldominguez3938]

OMY LORD THE RATS AII WAY S FIND WAYS .TO ..BE RATAS ..

[@fasthracing]

Nothing changes

[@williamrae9954]

An independent salvage company, now Copart rip off merchants

[@the.anonymous.driver]

6:40 - 6:58 John Major lookalike

[@RagdollRacingInc]

Always do a car deal in front of a police station

[@matthewking5612]

I always wanted to buy a stolen car, it just never happened.

[@LR_84]

Just seem to get them for free

[@dumymariposa6795]

Why not steal it yourself?😁You know, cut out the middle man.

[@hannesp3493]

@@dumymariposa6795 Think you’ve missed the joke mate

[@dumymariposa6795]

@@hannesp3493 I might. What was it?

[@hannesp3493]

@@dumymariposa6795 Think you've explained it in your last comment

[@ricmeister2011]

Who ever has accepted a cheque when selling a car, genuine seller or not?? Lol...

[@oliveroneill1388]

Quinten dracula mouth

[@jacknapier7036]

It was sweet wishess, newer happend in UK

[@danpeters7850]

Back in the good old days where all you needed was a flat head screwdriver and a coat hanger the amount of cars I've had on way home from pub pissed up 😂😂

[@skylined5534]

Nicking kid's pedal cars doesn't count though.