In all the years I have been around cars my great fear was to end up with a stolen one. I have been lucky so far, I have spotted a few on offer and attempted to report them with minimal success. I have had my cars stolen and returned but not yet suffered loss of cash in having a car taken away by the authorities. Yet cars continue to be stolen and disappear.
Have John Dobb's Isetta and BMW 600 ever turned up for instance? Years back a collector had thieves remove the rear of his lock up and take a collection of machines unnoticed.
The fact is so much of the effort to protect your property revolves about you, the owner. Buying well, getting good insurance and secure storage and restricting information - unpopular with Root and not compatible with the ethic of RUMcar - if required. On loss you need to be very proactive to get hard info that the police will react to. It is a subject many do not not wish to think about but each incremental increase in price makes Microcars ever more attractive targets to be pinched and more expensive to insure.
With my collectors hat on it is a big worry and a major cost of having the cars. It would be easy to say it was not worth it, get several bigger cars of the same value and reduce risk and required secure buildings to house the stuff. I certainly have not got a general storage problem but I do have a secure storage problem now I am amassing a collection by accident. I have thought of several answers but both will cost a few £1000 to create. So I need to be sure I want to have the collection, which I am not yet as it is sort of happening by default.
