Vintage Car Stolen from Stratford Finally Found in Arizona Several Years Later

In a case that seems more like something out of the movies than Stratford, a man’s vintage 1972 Buick convertible was located in Arizona after it had been stolen in Stratford and bounced around from New York and Washington state over at least a five-year period.

The Connecticut Post reports that William Reilly, 56, of White Plains, N.Y., was charged Thursday with the theft of the vehicle.

The owner of the Buick moved to London for his work in 2006 and stored the car at a Stratford storage facility operated by Reilly while he was overseas, according to the Post.

The Post reports that when the man returned in 2009 to pick up the car, he was told by employees that they were unable to immediately turn it over to him and when he came back several weeks later, he found the storage facility abandoned.

The man spent the next five years tracking down the car before finally discovering that it was on an auction block in Scottsdale, Arizona, in January 2014, according to the Post.

Read the full story at the Connecticut Post here.

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