Hello 4x4 enthusiasts. I'm writing you due to a really sad and unpleasant experience. Someone has stolen my pride and joy 1997 Land Rover Defender 90 right out of my back yard while I slept! The larceny occurred around 4am early Sunday morning, December 10, 2006 in the Hillsboro Village area of Nashville, TN. She was unlocked and parked in my back yard, but behind a double locked gate. If you see her, please phone me immediately! 615.429.4502. I'm offering $500 for information that leads me to her, and $1000 for information that leads to the arrest of the scum that took her from me! If you forwarded this email/message to someone who gets either of those rewards, I'll give you $100. The VIN is SALDV3243VA122379.

As I'm sure all of you know, these are extremely rare and pricey vehicles, so even if the insurance company gives me everything that I've put into her over the years, I can't exactly go up to the local dealer and buy a new one. So recovering her is the best I can hope for. Here's some pictures. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/91455012@N00/sets/72157594418517445/) These pictures were taken awhile ago, but she essentially looks the same. You enthusiasts know that you've always got at least one or two projects going on at any given time but this is basically the last state she was in.

She's a NAS D90 SW #2342, Arles blue with Alpine top, auto trans, with air conditioning and the 4.0L petrol engine with two of the four jump seats installed. She has about 97K miles on her and is due for an oil change. The front windshield has a large spidered crack on the passenger side that's about a foot wide. Of note are that she has black diamond plating armor on the hood wings, side sills under the doors, and rear wings above the rear wheels. The trail lights are IPF, both on the bull bar and the light rack. Of particular note is that she has a custom installed Pioneer AVIC Z1 GPS/Audio/Video system that sits in the center console where the switches for rear defrost and such used to reside. The cigar lighter is relocated into the top of the console next to the shifter and there are several more located inside the console under the hatch. She also has a duel battery kit, with the switch on the bottom left of the drivers dash. She still has my vanity plate, "OLD PUNK", with expired tags (Sept 05) using the old style plates, NOT the new green Tennessee hills plates. She also has the spare tire off the rear carrier and a lighted skull in the rear hitch socket. She's got an OME suspension kit, but if you're looking underneath her, then something even worse has happened! Again, if you see her, phone immediately! 615.429.4502.

CASH REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO HER RECOVERY AND/OR PROSECUTION!!!!

Thanks!

Cheers,
Scott

Sorry to hear about your loss. I know your pain first hand. This past April my 110 was stolen from my driveway while I slept. Luckily for me mine turned up about 3 weeks later. interior was stripped, winch, bumper, GPS and all my accessories gone but for the most part the body was in tacked. They took the sunroof but left the 7.5x16 XZL's! Go figure?? Think they were on drugs? The Rover community was a great help in getting the word out. I actually just got my Rover Hybrids custom bumper back about a month ago. Some F*$%@# criminal had posted in on eBay for $75!! With in 2 hours of Shane calling me the detective was calling me saying he had my bumper! Shitty part is they don't do any thing to prosecute this scum, nothing! It was obvious that they were not after anything Rover specific, just the stuff they thought they could resell or trade to their crackhead buddies.

As unique as Defenders are I was able to convince the local TV and Radio stations to do a segment on the auto theft and meth problem that we have here in Oregon. I can't tell you how many people still come up to me now that I have my 110 back and say, "I saw you on the news."

Best of luck in getting it back.
Christian

I'll be driving from Clemson, SC to Kingsport, TN on Saturday. Mainly highways 85 and 26. I'll keep an eye out incase it is by chance in this neck of the woods.

Thanks guys. I've never had a vehicle stolen before and I'm from Detroit! It's really devastating.

I am about an hour southeast of you. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

That totally sucks.

Truck thieves should be beat senseless, stabbed, and left on the trail to die of exposure.

Good luck with finding it. If the thief gets ID'd, bring him to MAR.......

I am about an hour southeast of you. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

Congrats on picking up that truck, I was set to make an offer before the wife put the kaibash on my truck buying...