They Stole Her Two Corvettes & 11 Other Cars
In the movies, car theft is made to look glamorous. Nobody feels sorry for the owners of the vehicles in Gone in 60 Seconds as Memphis deftly whisks them away to pay the ransom for his brother. In real life, however, it's terrible to be the one whose car is stolen. Having two of them pilfered in 90 days is beyond reason.
That very scenario presented itself to Dallas resident Melissa Anderson this year; her 2018 Corvette Z06 was stolen from her apartment garage and only a few weeks after she bought an almost-exact replacement, that one was taken as well. With dogged determination and investigative skills, Anderson has uncovered an auto theft ring that has left her apartment garage empty of the luxury cars that were once there, and she is on the hunt for the thieves.
If you've ever been the victim of any kind of theft, you know that you're left feeling violated and vulnerable. The summer after I graduated from college, someone waltzed into my apartment and stole my stereo system; a few years later, another robber smashed my car window and stole my CD collection. It's incredibly frustrating.
For Anderson, who is a self-professed car nut ("There are people who love their cars. There are people who are insane about their cars. And then there's me," she told NBCDFW in a TV interview), the fact that not just one but two of her dream cars have been stolen has upended her whole life.
Anderson caught the car bug when she was nine. Her dad was taking her to the library when a "red beast blew by us," she says.
"My dad was driving a Buick and I'm pretty sure it had wood paneling," Anderson told me. "He said, 'I don't know, I think it was a Ferrari.' I asked him how to spell it and wrote it down in my coloring book and when I got to the library, I said to the librarian 'I want a book about this.'"
Anderson says she has never owned an automatic car in her life and she has never owned a car with a back seat. Her first sports car was a Dodge Daytona she bought with her own money, and as she worked her way up in her career, she saved money to buy the 2018 Corvette Z06. It was exactly what she wanted.
Source: Kristin Shaw - The I Drive
Posted 6/11/21