Hey ChallengerHK, I think a Craig's list wanted ad might be a good idea. As Go-fish just stated I think it's very possible someone could be trying to mislead me. It was interesting to note that when the Craig's list add was first put up it would get flagged and taken down about every fifteen minutes. My friend who put it up was complaining about it and I remember wondering out loud if the person who kept flagging my ad was the thief. I wonder if Craig's list keeps records of that sort of thing.
I received one tip off of Craig's list that I had the cop's check out. A fellow emailed me saying he worked a job near were I live and drove by my car everyday and stopped to look at it on several occasions. He said that he was a serious Mopar man and used to have a 73 Challenger. He seemed to know Mopars very well in our phone conversation and said he had seen my car at a place near Durham NC, near the intersection of Hwy 70 and Hwy 751 for those in this area. I gave this info to the detective who went out there and questioned the guy running the place. Detective Crutchfield told me the guy said that he had just sold a 72 Challenger but had not had a 70. I went out there myself last Friday and asked the guy if he dealt in any mopars and he said he had just sold a Charger and a 73 Challenger. Detective Crutchfield also told me that he had asked if they did cars for other people and they had said no. However, I saw an add in the local paper a few days later where they were advertising for complete restorations as well as mechanical work. I called Detective Crutchfield, and pointed out this discrepancy in the info he had given me and the newspaper ad. I also called Carl again, the guy who gave me the tip, and asked him how close he was to the car that he had seen there and if he saw the back or front. He stated he was within 50 feet and that he saw the back of the car as it was being pulled into their garage. I'm not sure what to make of all of this; If I remember correctly the tail lights of a 70 Challenger are quite a lot different from a 73? Carl said he had a 73 and therefore knows what the tailights look like. I passed this thought on to detective Crutchfield. Either the guy I talked to at the place near durham is lying or Carl can't tell the difference between a 70 Challenger and a 73. I'm making the assumption the person the cop talked to had told him about the 73 and the cop mistakenly told me it was a 72 Challenger, or could it be they can't remember what year Challenger they just recently sold. Carl suggested I try to talk to DMV and find out if the place got a salvage title for a Challenger; he said he would mail me a notarized affidavit that he had seen my car at that place. I have not yet received the affidavit. The person who I talked with at the place in Durham, a very heavy set white guy, told me they ship there cars to Newjersey and Florida for painting and then ship them back to Durham. There was only one other person at the place the day I went there, a hispanic fellow. That's pretty much the entire story. I'm interested in hearing what you folks think of it and Thanks Matt for posting my info on the Tidewater site. I was also just looking through my old emails that I had sent to detective Crutchfield and found that I had sent him an email about my suspicions concerning Cliff and his previous place of employement on May 15th. His former boss said yesterday the police still had not contacted her about Cliff or his whereabouts. I'm going to keep bugging the detective about checking this guy out.
Joe.
