CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department auto theft investigators are trying to find a thief with a taste for classic cars.
On Monday morning 84-year-old Parks Davis had his three prized Volkswagen Beetles taken.
"I can't get back what I got in them, the value of those cars," said Davis. He grew up in the 3400 block of West Sugar Creek Road and owns five acres of land in the area.
Davis kept his cars on the land, and all the Beetles were made in 1970 or 1971.
"I had plans to fix it back like it was new and everything,” Davis added.
A neighbor says he saw someone using a trailer to remove the cars. He didn’t call police because he thought Davis had authorized it.
"Like I told the police and I tell everybody, if I had walked over there when they had done it I'd blown the damn hell out of them. That's just the way I feel," said Davis.
The cars are so old that someone could easily sell them for scrap. They wouldn’t even have to produce a title. Police say they are monitoring scrap yards in the hopes that someone tries to redeem the cars.
Investigators say cases like this one are common, and that a lot of cars are stolen for scrap.
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