Thieves drove right off the showroom floor with a brand-new Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, a GMC Sierra, and a GMC Yukon. But it soon turned a bit complicated. None of them knew how to put the top of the sports car up, so one of the three bad guys kept driving like that in freezing temperatures.
Three expensive cars simply disappeared without a trace from a dealership in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. They did not actually disappear. They were taken away. The three cars are worth more than $300,000. A brand-new Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible, costing $148,000, was among them.
The thieves broke into the dealership late at night and seemed to know their way around the place. They immediately found the keys of the cars and their license plates.
Everything was caught on tape. The footage shows them in various halls of the dealership and, in the end, backing the 2024 Cherry Red Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible out of the showroom quietly as if they knew exactly what they were doing.
The thieves also drove off with a 2024 GMC Siera HD 2500 Denali, estimated at around $80,000, and a 2022 GMC Yukon.
It was easy for them to walk into the dealership. Jeff Renfro from the Lawrenceburg Police Department reports that they broke the window at the service lane, where customers bring their cars to be repaired, and used a crowbar to break into the office where the keys were. How they knew that remains a mystery.
At around 03:05 in the morning, the three of them drove away, each on board a car, as if they didn't have a care in the world. Twenty minutes later, they stopped at a gas station to refuel the cars, which only had fuel for around 20 miles (32 kilometers). The Corvette driver wore a hood that completely covered his head and most part of his face. But the faces of the other two were visible, and they were caught on camera at the gas station.
The funny part of the situation is that, most likely, the Corvette driver had no idea how to get the top up. He drove the sports car with the top down despite the freezing temperatures outside on the night of the theft. According to WKRN News 2, there were only 28 degrees Fahrenheit (-2 degrees Celsius) that night. For sure, getting attention driving like that was the last thing they wanted.
The police managed to track the vehicles for a short while with the help of the OnStar system on board but lost until the thieves disabled it.
The Yukon was eventually found with a flat tire, sitting parked behind an abandoned house in Birmingham, Alabama. The sports car and the pickup truck are still missing. There is no trace of the thieves either.
It seems to be a good time to find stolen cars
However, cars do get found sooner or later and it seems like it is a good time for it. Just last week, two Ferraris, stolen years apart from different locations, were found by the police. One of them, an F512, which was stolen 28 years ago, belonged to former Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger.
Back then, the pro driver tried to chase after the thieves in a friend's Volkswagen Golf. But catching a 434-horsepower (441-metric horsepower) Ferrari in a Golf is not exactly doable. The Metropolitan Police eventually found it almost three decades later. Better later than never...
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