My framed picture of the family that stole my car
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- čas přidán 19. 03. 2023
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Travis Bell tells the stories of how his friend's Chevrolet SS, the American version of the Holden Commodore, was stolen and the amazing keepsake he found to remember the experience of recovering it.
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I would've rather had the Chevy SS over the SRt
@@toyota420xp ditto
The SS is another one of those cars that not many appreciated until they stopped producing it. Pretty badass family cars.
As an australian......... they're fucking HORRIBLE cars.
The problem for me with them was the price. I couldn’t justify that low hp for 45k.
@@JaredS23 I feel that. Especially when you can spend 10k less on some cars and get more hp off the bat
Look up Lumina SS aka LHD Commie.
@@MaxSpeedMike t
He framed it! That is absolutely hilarious!
He should take out a full page ad in the local newspaper, and post it there.
@@emt9370 you gotta be able to prove, who actually stole the car.
Travis is one of my very favorite VINwiki storytellers. Great guy with great stories!
He’s up there with Rabbit and Chris Michaels
I disagree honestly. I found his storytelling underwhelming.
My mom had a friend who had an Audi she hated and one day it got stolen they found it later that day.she looked at her husband and said "see they hated it too!"
haha kinda reminds me of how they stole my dads truck and they found it a day later. 2020 silverado, had all his tools in it,20$ worth of spare change. all they stole were painting supplies.
@@rjlara8194 😂😂😂 that's hilarious
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My brother had an Acura integra that was a total hooptie. They abandoned it one block down the street in front of his neighbor's house who was a cop. He heard the stolen car call come in and knew right away that it was the random car parked badly in front of his driveway while he was having his morning coffee 😂
We had an 83' Datsun 200SX in the family growing up. Only one I've ever seen in person. Someone stole it and ended up returning it 3 days later with more stuff in it than it had when they stole it. The family joke was that they must have felt bad for us and had a change of heart.
What a sad, funny and heartwarming way to tell a stolen car story. Loved it, Travis you are a great story teller and from what I have seen over the years a pretty good dude. I would have a beer with you anytime lol.
Nice to see children raised in a good home
By the way, a "P-Touch VIN" is a VIN sticker produced by a Brother P-Touch device. This is a small handheld printer with a keyboard that produces sticker labels on rolls of proprietary tape. They use batteries and cost about $40, I have one and put labels on all sorts of stuff around the house. I really find them indispensable, but I've never heard of one being used to produce a VIN overlay....
Im surpised that even worked that long. P touch labels are fairly noticeable as P touch labels.
Thankyou I had no idea what that meant all the way from Australia! I thought maybe it was some QR code vin lol
😊
That is HILARIOUS! I know what it's like to lose a car... but it's AWESOME that he was able to find it and get photos of the jerks that stole it.
My first car that I had for years and put 200k miles on was stolen broke my heart
@@strangeclouds7 ah man, that sucks! I had a vw Jetta for 14 years and absolutely loved it. Put over 200k on it and it was still running like new when some moron ran a stop sign and totaled it. It felt like losing a part of me lol, it’s just a car but it was so reliable and I had spent so much time in it that I was truly sad to see it go to the wrecker.
@@dickhitswater4836 Yeah for sure I feel you. Mine was a 99 Integra 5 speed manual. I took such good care of it, one previous owner before me, was completely mint inside and out. Most reliable car I've every had. So quick and fun to drive, I kept it stock too it wasn't riced out like all the other Integras you find now. Cars now days just don't compare. We actually found the car later but it had been completely stripped, wheels, catalytic converter, speakers, stereo, dash, inside was tore up. So mad I didn't keep it but at the time I didn't have the money to fix it up or store it. Like you said a car is a car but when it's your first car and you baby it for years it's like a part of your family. Still heart broken to this day
@@strangeclouds7 mine was a 98 Jetta. Love me some late 90’s cars, just something about them. Been looking for a clean, stock late 90’s civic or integra and they’re almost impossible to find, so are the Jetta’s.
@@strangeclouds7 Damnn that's a really sad story, it's the kind of thing you never even think could happen to you until it does...
I'm thinking of installing a kill switch, could be helpful.
Travis told that story so well, and it's a pretty funny story. Dan sounds like such a nice guy to know
How many of us paused the video and google earthed “11th & College”?... DAMN! THERE IT IS!
Right around the time that the 1st fast and furious came out my friend had a civic stolen from him. The police found it a few days later in the hood but was fine. So he gets it amd starts driving it and notices it's way louder and hhst different. Lol he opens the hoid and they added a head and some headers and intake lmao and they also put sime subs and a dvd player in it. Obviously wasn't fast or anything after that but still free parts
I can’t believe the type of family that would drive around in a stolen car would also be the type of family to have family photos done.
They just had to be black.
They may not have personally stolen it, considering they also lived like two miles away.
@@rrteppo you just had to have an anime pfp and praise a dude who lost both wars he fought in 😂
Thats the only picture they have of them all being alive and together and not dead or in jail.
@@rrteppo😂😂😂😂
Diamond Dan is the man ! My official Indianapolis tour guide when I’m there. Great story as always Travis Matthew ! - Rabbit 😎
Does he take you to where the jc penney gals hang out?
@@blue_lancer_es no comment 🤣😂
Only the best girls for my boy Rob!
@@Danieldillon Pendleton Pike? 😂😂😂
My ‘17 SS doesn’t leave my sight or leave the garage if it’s raining. Maybe I care too much about a car the world doesn’t know about. Lol
Love that you keep calling it the Commodore
Who cares.
@@borismcfinnigan3430 me
@@HyperVectra Go drive your Vectra LOL
Shame we don't make them anymore :(
The bombadore. Its what all the crackheads drive in straya along with the ford falcon.
Great story! I was in Alberta, Canada about 6 months ago and visiting a friend of my mum's. We were about to walk in when I saw the 2 x G8's sitting in an open garage (VE Commodores). I'm Aussie, so it was very interesting to see and my dad and I had a chat with the owner, who had done a few mods along the way - but it's always great seeing Aussie cars in other countries (I also spotted a VE SS in the middle of London about 10 years ago - my wife is English)! Thanks for sharing!
I had a 2017 SS. Had to sell it for financial reasons unfortunately. But I will definitely be getting another one. Favorite car I've ever owned.
SS sedans are so clean. As a mailman I’m always seeing cars, always interesting seeing what some people drive
Should have talked to the insurance company and got that car back for like $1000
Indy got rid of their stolen vehicle investigation unit years ago; I had a classic stolen shortly thereafter. If there's a recovery now, it's because a cop happened upon the vehicle like this and had already had his donut for the morning and had nothing better to do.
True
Yeah they got in trouble for treating rape cases like that, pretty much nationwide. Then when the public realized most depts stopped processing rape kits and evidence for 5 years or longer they stopped looking for stolen cars instead. Google the dates.....I bet they match.
Whats the car..... lot of stolen cars make thier way to WI....via indy to chi...... trying to get them to canada........😮
so what's to keep everyone from stealing cars up there?
Theirs no way to leave the town by car. It's boat or plane only
Man, that story is full code.
I did some yard work recently for a disabled lady, and sitting in her carport, all covered in dirt, with flat tyres, was a VF SS (same as car in story. It belonged to her son, who I suspect has been locked up.
I hope to see you at the holden extravaganza this weekend Travis!!!
Holden Extravaganza where? I own four 1970s HQs and a 1960 FB (looks like a smaller '57 Chev).
@@RoverIACin the good ol state of Georgia this weekend
The last times my friends cars were stolen and they actually got them back. It was a nightmare nobody paid for the damage they never ran right afterwards. People who steal cars aren’t the brightest so they don’t care about oil or anything else.
That has got to be one of the BEST stories ever posted to this channel!
Great story Travis!! Thanks very much for sharing this one! 👍🏻🥃
As soon as I saw Travis, I knew it’s gonna be good
As girl gearhead in Indy, I used to party right around where Dan lives. My guess is that the car was found between Sherman and Keystone...
Emerson
Pretty solid guess
@Danieldillon super sorry this happened to you! I will have to say that I love the fact you framed the family photo, too funny! My family has always dealt with older hot rods and rarely to people want to steal an old t bucket, or the like, for their daily driver. Not to mention, anyone from Happy Days or The Suds would be on the lookout.
Travis is awesome. Reminds of the time my truck got stolen from the apartment complex I was living in. Crappy winter day in Nov. We did have a drug dealer living on the first floor and I guess some of his customers decided they didn't want to walk home so they busted the door handle to get in and broke the bottom of the steering column open to remove the wheel lock. Filed a report but the cop was honest enough to say it was prolly gone. Exactly 1 month later the called that they had found it about 1 mile from my place. Only reason they found it was the city had it towed cuz the plow drivers asked for it to me removed so they could clear the street. Then insurance totalled it when all it needed was a new steering column and door handle. The adjuster gave me some BS about they would have to spend $3500 to have it inspected. They said cuz of the damage to the door and rocker panel the cost was more than it was worth. I told the adjuster that the door dents and rocker panel damage was there when I bought it but he just ignored me. Ins. paid me $6400 for a dented/rusted 1992 GMC Sierra SLE extended cab.
Love Travis and his awesome stories.
Always love seeing Travis Bell!
My dad woke up one morning to discover his car gone…..reported it stolen…..a week later he gets a call from a friend wondering when he was coming to get his car. Dad had left it in his driveway and went partying elsewhere and just forgot he had ever been there. He goes to pick it up and gets pulled over on the way home for driving a stolen car lol.
Travis tells a classic Indianapolis story!
I used to live a couple of blocks from where this tale happened. Got rear ended just north of where this happened, played music just east of there. Ah Naptown!
Poor old commdore. Or as they known in OZ, the dunny door.
An aunt had morris minors for years and one got stolen one day. 10 years later.... the police knocked on her door to tell her it had been recovered and was available to be collected from a storage yard. She had bought another in the meantime so it was sold. it had been parked in a ware house for ten years.
Tracking devices are the way to go with some very clever devices out there now and a lot cheaper than trying to find your stolen car.
Just had my SS stolen from right outside my house yesterday! Hearing this story just confirms my thoughts that my car is never gonna be found in the condition I had it in if at all. 😢
I'm an Aussie and I own the same type of Commodore SS with 550hp
Brilliant car, comfort and power, fantastic daily
I remember 13 years ago being the only person in my family upset that our currency was so strong against the USD because I knew what it would cost us, namely all our big manufacturing. Hell even a lot of our more boutique manufacturers effectively F'd off to California. The Chinese pegged their currency weak against the USD for a bloody good reason.
What’s it got? 6.0L L77 or 6.0L LS3?
@@GenghisKhanDaG LS3, 6.2L
Yes correct, mine being the LS3 is the 6.2L
L98, LS2, and L77 are all 6.0L
LSA is very similar to LS3 with added supercharger and also 6.2L
🙂
I saw that car come into auto return a while back! I work next door to that place in indy.
Great story Travis!
Best part of the year is when Travis hosts his annual Midwest Holden BBQ
Fantastic story!
I just hope "Uncle Tom" doesn't come and steal or vandalize Dan's SRT8, now that they know where he lives and what to look for. But I do love the fact that you/he took the photo and it hangs on the wall, LOL.
Uncle Tom is probably doing felony time for stealing a $40,000 car.
Lol doubt that
@@hendo337 More than likely dead from a drive by.
Dan looks like may own a pea shooter
These puzzles are getting easier and easier to solve, Pat.
I'm sorry for his loss.
I seriously hope charges were pressed against that guy.
Not likely…too many stolen vehicles here and there not enough evidence of who stole it so the charges wouldnt b grand theft or ne thing…at the most receiving stolen property but then w the fake vin they could just say they bought it or w e if they have a fake bill of sale n the title 4 said malibu or w e the vin came from
can't prove who stole it originally. Just because someone has it, doesn't mean they stole it.
@@obnxsdonky9394 still its a charge of possession of stolen property.
@@robertstone9988 You'd have to prove they knew it was stolen.
@@troodon1096 lol silly child. Thats not how it works. It dosnt matter if you know something is stollen. Its a crime no matter what. Like a bartender who serves beer to a kid with a fake id. Ignorance of the law is not a excuse to brake the law. Same with if you sleep with a under age girl who told you she was 21. What you thank dosnt matter its what you did.
Good on you guys for blurring the faces, because i certainly would not. Screw them.
3:35 I perked up like a dog when you call it’s name when he said North Wilkesboro. I was like “hey that where I live!!!!” 😂🤣😂🤣
That poor family photo is now a work of art all because of that story.
I live in NH, and in about 2011 I flew out to Texas to pick up my new drag car. Ended up competing down there with it for a day to get a feel for the car, loaded it up on a trailer and brought it home, figured out my 4 wheeler was stolen right out of my back yard while i was gone. Found it a month later, the guy that stole it broke the rear carrier an dropped it off at a buddy of mine house to be welded and realized it was mine. Luckily I got it back and $3.5k in restitution for my time and damages 😊
I’ve lived in Indy most my life and one of the weird quirks of Indy is one block will be sketchy and the next block is nice.
That’s not just Indy it’s pretty much everywhere where I live the main streets are sketchy and the side streets are quite
It's anywhere blacks accumulate
For the Love of All That's holy, will somebody please post a picture (of that family person who stole the car) online and shame them.
I have a 2016 SS that I daily in Indy. Peacock green metallic. Love that thing.
Now that is an awesome story!
"Up & coming" translates into "Lock yo' S up or its gone"
I’m glad these big cities no long punish these stunning and brave people for their culture ❤
The most midwestern thing to do. Tilt your hat goodbye as you stroll out the door to the person that robbed you to get your passive aggressive revenge. 😂
Another vinwiki rerun?!? I don't think.....wait, Travis Bell video?!? You bet I'll listen to him again!
I saw that car sitting in In alley around 22nd in bellefontaine if I recall correctly? I considered it weird, but kept going!
The kind of people that will steal a Chevy SS are 110% guaranteed to steal an SRT Cherokee so they can do donuts in an intersection.
I never would have guessed the race of the Thieves
😂
oh, NEVER...
Just say your racist
@PatLadsChan99 ya I never said I wasn't
And that doesn't make me wrong
Proud GXP second owner here. Those of us that have kept tabs on the muscle car food chain have watched these vehicles evolve from Down Under starting with the two-door GTO which for a small family like mine was not an option might as well bought a Corvette. But if you had been following them you knew even when they launch the GTO that they had plans for a four-door muscle car so I waited along with people like minded.
Then finally 2008 comes around and here they come G8 GT's but the price was ridiculous so a little bit more research and patience and hopes that the price will come down but the reality is because of the difference with Australian dollar they're never coming down. My local Pontiac dealer went belly-up sitting on five of them should have been four but they'd rather go bankrupt over $500 and hold onto all five, I was okay with that cuz I really didn't want the GT anyway I wanted the GXP, which at that time were sitting on a boat circling in the Pacific, when they did finally get unloaded most went to Chevy dealers and obviously those dealers Marked those damn things up as much as $25,000 so again I was out of luck cuz there's no way in hell I was going to pay 75 grand for one of those cars lo and behold two years later when people start getting rid of them a lot we're willing to take it in the shorts just because The Thrill was Gone. It was amazing to watch those things sell for their sticker price 4 years later. I was lucky in finding an owner that didn't believe that his car was still worth sticker, I was able to negotiate a price that was acceptable to the both of us. Committed to purchase sight unseen and drove 400 Mi to pick it up blindly. Like the original purchasers after driving it daily for close to a year The Thrill Is Gone but I still love my baby and take it out every now and then, I'll keep it until somebody else has thirty thousand reasons that they want it more than me or I can get into an equivalent replacement for 30,000 which you can't.
Great story
That car is the wallpaper on my phone and two computers. A red Chevy SS. Not a Ferrari nor a Lambo. I love these things.
2016 Chevy SS looks great in a VINwiki thumbnail!
Great ending to the story
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I tbh thought that it was gonna end with dan got his car back
It's kind of funny and sad that a much newer car with all it's safety and theft deterrents gets stolen. Then you have my 1998 Chevy Suburban K1500 with 204k miles that thieves broke into and attempted to hot wire it. They drained the dual batteries in that Suburban and never got it to start. Charged the batteries, replaced the ignition cylinder and its wiring, and still drive it today.
The first time I drove one of these I thought it was just a rebadged Impala. It's really a four door Corvette!
Travis bell stories are the best
Damn, that wasn't the happy ending I was expecting....
Usually have to pay extra for that. 😏
Actually, I had a car stolen out of my driveway once. It had a split radiator and I was waiting on a replacement. They didn't get far driving a car with no coolant. The found it like 2 blocks from my house, and it was totalled because the engine seized, they punched the ignition and trunk lock. What year was the SRT8 Grand Cherokee he got? is it new enough to worry getting stolen like the Chargers/Challengers/Trackhawks/300s etc. are?
When I was a kid we'd go exploring the woods near my friends house and there were all types of stripped stolen and burned out shells of cars abandoned back there...
I love the SS I’m working my way towards ownership of one I’ve had 2 gto’s one with a super terrible ending and the 2nd with a very painful ending I also own a g8 .. Georgia is a rough place to love holdens
i had my car stolen once. i was very angry. its good to see some people can just roll with it. after all, what can you do in this situation.
this makes me so sad this is one of my dream cars
Dan is my spirit animal!!
There is a reason they used to clip hands off thieves in the past 🤷🏻♂️
They still do in some parts of the middle east.
@@thespacedpirate And it turns out that putting the fear of Allah into would-be thieves works.
@@bwofficial1776 eh, I'll take not living in a modern stone age over that anyday
I'm looking to get a 14 SS this yr those cars are great
That is just classic!!!
That shirt is amazing Travis! Crook county born and raised!
I saw one that was red left-hand drive on interstate 40 at the S-curves between Waynesville and Asheville North Carolina about one month ago. I really wish they sold these and the Utes here soooo baaaaad
Love Travis Bell telling stories! Must watch instantly
As an aussie i hope dan get's a ss commodore ute dog's would love it.
I believe he has one or 2 Utes.
Dumb question but will you be able to steal it back and register it again?
Now that is a GOOD STORY!👍👍😆😃
Who goes on a road trip at 4:15 AM to buy ecstasy? 😂
I scrolled looking for this comment.
I knew I couldn't be the only one who thought that. Lol!
Peak Indy story lol
I feel like I’ve seen this car around Indianapolis.
Awsome shirt , as a past cook County resident im soooo glad I don't live there anymore
Can we get a y info on whether someone was prosecuted?
i wish i could get my dads 68 impala SS that was stolen in Tucson, 1987. just to let him see it again before he eventually passes.
No guarantee thar family actually stole it, could've been a hood purchase from the actual thief for a couple hundred bucks. I'd say that's more likely
Lol of course it's a family of Tyrones
I can’t believe the folks in that picture would steal a car … I appalled!
Imagine listing a car for sale and you get the attention of Travis and Rob.
Having them turn up would be a hoot.
How do you never seen your bright red car that’s 2 miles away.
This story is hilarious. That guy is a “car guy” too! I mean… he’s an “other people’s car guy” but a car guy none the less.
Glad I keep mine in the garage
I have FAR less kind words for those people.
I've been binge watching yalls content the past couple days. I live jus north of nap town/Indy in Madison Co.