UPDATE: May 11, 2010: The Goldeneagle Has Been Found!
Yes, we have now verified that the car sighted on May 8th, was in fact my car!
This is the first time I’ve seen it since it was stolen 6 days ago. The last 6 days are the ONLY 6 days of my entire life, that I have not been in this car. And actually, the damage is not as bad as was described to me over the phone – thank goodness! I talked with 7 different people on the phone, all of whom had seen my car, all of whom told me the car was now cut in half, but from there the reports varied, so until today I had no idea how badly it had or had not been damaged. While every one was telling me something slightly different, they all agreed on the fact that the car they had seen was now in 2 pieces, which confirmed the fact that each person had seen the same car while it was on the move across Maine. The last sighting of my car, it was reported heading towards a scrap yard, a place that makes a business of crushing cars. I knew the place people were talking about, that they thought my car was heading to, and so called them, and they did have my car, or at least a car that fit the description of my car had just come in shortly before my call to them, so they set it aside out back to wait for me to come take a look at it myself and see if the car they had was my Goldeneagle, and it was, as you can see from the pictures below.
I’ve just come from there and yes, as mentioned by every single person who called to report having seen my car, the Goldeneagle has been cut in half! Also some parts of it were already removed and sold before it reached the guy who has it right now. The floor boards are gone entirely, a result of the original mover dragging it on the ground behind his truck. But, floorboards are easily built by hand out of sheet metal, so that can be fixed.
All 4 wheels, and tires, and the rear axle were not with it, by the time it reached the guy who has it now, and no one seems to know what happened to them or where they went. Again, however, these are all parts that are replaceable, so, these too can be fixed.
Thankfully, the guy who cut it in half, cut it at the body to nose seam joint and it’s a simple welding job to fix. Unfortunately the frame underneath the body (which was already cracked as a result of a tree falling on the car some 20 years earlier) has twisted out of shape and I suspect is beyond repair, but building a new frame from scratch will not be hard to do, and getting a Polaris frame (which will fit a 330 with slight adjustments) is not hard to do either, so the frame is fixable.
And oddly enough, most of the reports were telling me of body damage, which as it now turns out that most of the damage described as having been received in transit, was ACTUALLY the damage that was done to it by vandals last March, BEFORE the car was stolen on May 5th, and NOT damage it received while on it’s move across the state. The damage you see done to the doors, was a result of the vandals prying open the LOCKED doors and as I said that had happened on March 18th, as did the holes in the fenders, and the other various twists and bends in the metal.
And considering the condition of it (it’s last day of use consisted of a nose dive into the Atlantic Ocean, thus why the extensive rust) all in all, it survived it’s trip rather well. And other than being cut in two and losing the floor boards and an axle, all in all it really did not sustain all that much damage in it’s move across the state. It can be fixed.
I took these pictures of it’s current state to a mover, and he thinks he can move it with a fork lift without any farther damage.
Arrangements are now being made to bring it home – in a few days the Goldeneagle will be back where it belongs.
Thank you once again, to all the people who helped me locate my stolen car {{{hugs and kisses}}}} to all of you!
The contents of this blog, are taken from the second draft of the book “For Fear of Little Men” by Wendy C. Allen, and reprinted here with permission. 
Find me on MySpace and be my friend!
