# Cops Find Man's Stolen Mustang 37 Years Later
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [March 21, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386 "2008-03-21T07:01:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@ugo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ugo)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/1 "2008-03-21T07:01:43Z")
**After 37 years a Los Angeles man may finally get his stolen Mustang back.**
Eugene Brakke was recently told by the San Diego Police Department auto theft unit that his 1965 Mustang was found in their city, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
In 1970 Brakke reported it stolen and filed a report with the Burbank Police Department, the newspaper reported.
Police told the newspaper that a San Diego woman was given the Mustang as a high school graduation gift from her father in 1970. When she recently tried to sell it, she learned it was stolen.
But, according to the woman, it is unclear if Brakke wants to car back, because he told her it is “just not the same,” the newspaper reported.
[](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340069,00.html#)
San Diego Police
The 1965 Mustang.
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### Author:  [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 7:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/2 "2008-03-21T07:12:23Z")
what… so did it just sit in the garage that 37 years …by the look of the paint it was outside
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### Author:  [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/3 "2008-03-21T07:18:23Z")
No titles back then, this is back when a ‘pink-slip’ (receipt) was all you had to put a car on the road.
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### Author:  [@RLB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RLB)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/4 "2008-03-21T07:37:31Z")
Haha. Sucks.
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/5 "2008-03-21T08:14:27Z")
If he doesn’t want it, I do. Looks like a Fastback
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/6 "2008-03-21T08:21:05Z")
^no shit, same here.
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### Author:  [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/7 "2008-03-21T08:24:19Z")
Think it’s a coupe… I’ve got room for another pony 🙂
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### Author:  [@RedrRocket](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedrRocket)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/8 "2008-03-21T08:56:55Z")
i dont understand that.
when my brothers snowmobile was stolen 5 years ago.
and HE actually found the Kid trying to sell it. It was impounded. and auctioned off. with no OPTION TO BUY BACK.
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### Author:  [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/9 "2008-03-21T09:01:28Z")
> [@RedrRocket](#):
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> i dont understand that.
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> when my brothers snowmobile was stolen 5 years ago.
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> and HE actually found the Kid trying to sell it. It was impounded. and auctioned off. with no OPTION TO BUY BACK.
That doesn’t make any sense. Obviously it was already stolen, he made the report, made the claim and possibly even got the check and THEN he found it. Too late, the sled is no longer his. If he found the kid in his shed then who else would have known this was happening?
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### Author:  [@Rsnake91](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rsnake91)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/10 "2008-03-21T09:29:11Z")
sux for that guy… his car is tainted lol…
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/cops-find-mans-stolen-mustang-37-years-later/45386/11 "2008-03-21T09:29:39Z")
More info. And it was a 289 Coupe
> **[Mustang is corralled after 38 years](http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/21/local/me-mustang21)**
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> The last time Eugene Brakke drove his honey-gold 1965 Ford Mustang, he was young and single, and the throaty little sports car "certainly didn't hurt" with the ladies. He parked at work that day in...