TWO STOLEN MOVIE CARS

if you've been following my channel for any length of time you know that i've been documenting the history of the fast and furious cars for years this has been no easy task given that for every car you see in the movie there are several copies of that car that serve as backup cars or stunt cars most of you already know this i've done my best to keep track of all the cars but because so many years have passed and some cars have been passed around like a bomb at a party some have been elusive to find or track one car's destiny had been a complete mystery until just recently which car am i talking about i'll give you a hint it was in the first movie and it appeared in the race wars scene it was this car the hks library rx-7 which was owned by a young aspiring actor by the name of chris chi over the years i've tried to get chris's side of the story but i wasn't having much luck finding him then recently i was made aware of a 20 year old post on the rx7 club forum here's the actual post well ladies and gents in southern california my car got jacked yesterday february 15 2002. i have insurance but i know they're gonna fight all the car parts that i have on the car please keep on the lookout for rx7 parts for sale i've already called everyone i know that has shady connections to find their ass gonna get real hard for them to move parts in los angeles according to the op rotary knight which was chris cheese pseudonym on the form back then his rx-7 was stolen near the warner brothers lot between 2 30 p.m and 7 p.m on february 15 2002. i decided to turn to social media to try and connect with chris g one more time i finally got a hold of him and after a short phone call i got the full skinny he confirmed that the car was stolen on friday february 15 2002 which happened to be a holiday weekend and the car was recovered on tuesday february 18th in inglewood california chris was working at warner brothers that day and since the parking structure wasn't yet built and the designated gated lot was full he had to park on the street and he had really serious reservations about that he then went into work on one of the sound stages and when it came out the car was gone it was stolen despite having three alarms and an anti-carjacking hidden switch the car seemed to be too low to tow with any type of tow truck without damaging the car so the speculation at the time was that someone had a second key where they had hot wired the car and so forth but so much for three alarms right as chris puts it the thieves were amateurs and were clearly not into the jdm scene as evidenced by the fact that they didn't take off some of the really expensive car parts like the suspension they kept that on the car although the car looked pretty stockish in the movie though he went on to build the car into impressive parts showpiece in the months that followed the movie you have to understand the history of the car although the car looked pretty stockish in the movie he went on to build that car into an impressive part showpiece in the months that followed the movie chris notes that although he also appeared in race wars as one of the motorcycle game guys he was really only focused on trying to get his car in the movie that was his main goal and all of this was heartbreaking because while the car was on set it made many runs as we filmed the race with letty which was done of multiple takes over multiple days and after a few days of abuse during filming the car was returned to him with a bad idol and smoke coming out of the exhaust the engine was toast it turns out chris got an estimate from a mazda dealer for a new engine and submitted it to universal who happily compensated him fairly as chris says it was then that he embarked on that comprehensive build i just mentioned when the car was done the car's equipment list was very impressive it had a real nice sports hood it had their type 4 bumper the type 1 sides dual flap of aluminum wing and side view mirrors all from night sports performance wise it had an xs engineering spec to4s turbo an hks type s intercooler an evc 4 an apex power fc an hks twin power setup an aic3 with elbow and an underdrive pulley kit if you don't know that list of performance parts is a journey back in time it took like a time capsule when many terrain cars back then needed several different piggyback devices to extract the most power out of their engine with today's tuning solutions it's much simpler to do that so other mods included things like the hks hyper damper max 2 shock setups a coilover setup which is very expensive and hks purple sway bars actually there were only two sets of the purple sway bars in the us at that time very rare stuff chris's rx-7 also had hks's titanium and carbon fiber exhaust system again a very rare part inside the car was a bevy of hks gauges for things like boost water temperature egt and so forth and so on for wheels chris opted for a set of the then brand new volk racing gtc's and his car was among the first cars in the country to get a set of those wheels in case you're wondering the wheels measured 18 by 8 up front and 18 by 10 in the rear tires were the then very popular toyo t1s proxes 235 50 18 in front and 265 35 80 in the back one could argue that this build was a dream build it featured the newest and very best parts the tuna marker had to offer for this car back then and so after all these modifications were done we proceeded to drive the car daily just like he always did until the day the car got stolen for those wondering about the timeline let me put it into perspective for you the first movie was released in june of 2001 his car was stolen eight months later almost to the day and of course the saddest part of this story is that chris had a full night sports wide body sitting in the paint shop waiting for the car to come in and the shop was supposed to get the car a week later in february 2002 and just days after the car got stolen as i said a moment ago the car was recovered a few days later but it was stripped it was stripped of most of its parts it was a sad sad thing for him if this car had never been recovered the insurance company i'm told would have only paid him out on the value of the car and not for the extra parts on the car think about that what was left of the strip car was sold off the chassis was actually sold to a racer so that was gone and here's the lesson we can learn from all of this if you have a bunch of modifications on your car and you live in the united states which 97 of my viewers do then you need to itemize a list of your parts gather the receipts put them in a file and then call your insurance company to see about doing something called a guaranteed value on your policy which is sometimes also called an agreed value policy it's very important to do this if you don't declare these parts to your insurance company you might not get a nickel for those parts if your car gets totaled or gets stolen i went through this personally with my mustang in 1998 my modified mustang was stolen just three days before the new owner was supposed to pick up the car the buyer had agreed to buy the car for 23 000 fortunately i had receipts but no extra insurance i had about 32 000 in receipts for parts and work to the car not including the actual value of the car i settled on a total payout from the insurance company of 28 000 and i was very lucky to get that in some countries you have to declare your insurance every single part you install on your car why because if you modify your car to go faster your insurance will cost you more in england if you modify your car to look faster insurance companies think that thieves will be more attracted to your car and you're going to have to pay higher insurance premiums for example look at this ridiculous chart it shows how much your insurance will go up if you have any of these modifications good god if you had a turbo or supercharger added to your car your insurance goes up 132 percent add an air filter add 25 percent to your car insurance bill hood at six percent what stripes or badges at nine percent craziness this is allowed because uk law specifies that if your car has been modified you must declare the changes to your insurer even if you didn't make the changes yourself and if you don't your insurance policy is null and void why the brits continue to vote for politicians who are so uptight is absolutely beyond my comprehension the uk in fact is screwed in many ways first the country is more than a thousand years old and as such about 40 percent of homes were built without garages so these cars have to park on the street but i digress if having one fast and furious car stolen is heartbreaking how would you feel about a paul walker skyline being stolen well it actually happened back in may of 2009 one of the blue skyline gtt's used in fast and furious 4 was allegedly stolen from milano motorsports in los angeles california the car belonged to a guy by the name chris gregorian who uses the alias chris milano don't know why but something's going on there allegedly thieves cut a hole in a metal wall right next to where the car was parked in the shop which seems like a remarkable coincidence but okay and it was taken within 10 minutes as i recall though a video surfaced of the actual theft it didn't seem to help though as the car was gone and that seemed like the end of that story but the car magically reappeared 14 months later on 6speedonline.com a popular automotive forum back then allegedly the car had been recovered completely intact and it was being offered for sale for 75 000 bucks the timing was interesting given that this was the time period when the feds were seizing gtrs and back at the same time of the kaizo difficulties as if you're if you remember that it was also during the stock market troubles and the housing market crash back in 2009 now a suspicious mind would surmise that maybe there was a little bit more to the story but without any new stories emerging in the last 12 years about the car we can only assume that the car still exists and that there wasn't any funny business going on in the background okay right the bottom line is that most stolen cars are not recovered having the right insurance coverage can help protect your investment while the right insurance can help to compensate you for your loss a low jack system has a 90 recovery rate in my opinion it's far better to get your car back before it's been stripped for parts but that's just me so let these stories about how you insure and protect your car service cautionary tales gather your receipts and get on the phone to your insurance guide and protect what's rightfully yours that's it for this time everybody we'll see you next time and as always please support my sponsors you

Channel: Craig Lieberman

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Keywords: the fast and the furious, skyline gtr, GTR, Mazda RX7, paul walker gtr, paul walker, vin diesel

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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021