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Keep your eyes on Ebay....hehehe
 
All kidding aside......we may well see it offered for sale on eBay on this side of the pond. While they must know that they couldn't get away with it over in the UK, the USA would be a good market for it. Transatlantic law-enforcement cooperation doesn't usually extend to car theft (for that's what it is).
 
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Transatlantic law-enforcement cooperation doesn't usually extend to car theft (for that's what it is).

[/ QUOTE ]Probably so, but this isn't just car theft, rather an almost iconic -- and extremely recognizable -- object. Kinda like stealing and then trying to sell Dorothy's ruby slippers! Not a smart idea. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif

Not that about half of the population of the US (and not just kids) wouldn't recognize Harry's car immediately (although more than a few people mistakenly call my Herald sedan a "Harry Potter" car).
 
I wouldnt steal Dorothy's ruby slippers...Most people who have owned them have met some horrible demise....:(
 
Kinda like anyone who used parts off of James Deans ill fated Porsche 550 ?
 
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Transatlantic law-enforcement cooperation doesn't usually extend to car theft (for that's what it is).

[/ QUOTE ]Probably so, but this isn't just car theft, rather an almost iconic -- and extremely recognizable -- object. Kinda like stealing and then trying to sell Dorothy's ruby slippers! Not a smart idea. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif

Not that about half of the population of the US (and not just kids) wouldn't recognize Harry's car immediately (although more than a few people mistakenly call my Herald sedan a "Harry Potter" car).

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Agreed, it is rather an icon, but icon or not, still doesn't have much value in and of itself and it's still only a car. Even James Bond's Aston Martin is a motor vehicle by any definition, and not considered "personal property" as such. The only offence that has been committed in the UK is Taking a motor vehicle Without Consent which isn't even theft under the laws of the land, as it's hard to prove intent to permanently deprive the owners(s) of the car as most motor vehicles are easily recovered. Add that to the fact that unless the report makes the mainstream media over here in the US, most people are unaware that the car was taken, and may be likely to buy the thing if they saw it on eBay.
 
By strange coincidence I was looking at Harry Potter's Anglia (or one of them) yesterday at the 'Cars of the Stars' museum at Keswick in the English Lake District. The car at the museum was the one used in all the closeup and interior shots so was in pretty good condition. Other cars there include two Batmobiles (one from the original TV series and one from the later films). One of the James Bond Astons. FAB 1 from Thunderbirds as well as one of the nearly 300 General Lee's and one of the A-Team vans.

Unfortunately the museum car only display around a quarter of the collection at any one time due to space restrictions

Cars of the Stars
 
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Agreed, it is rather an icon, but icon or not, still doesn't have much value in and of itself and it's still only a car.

[/ QUOTE ]Again, I can't argue with what you say...except to note that a 1975 Ford Escort that formerly belonged to the late Pope John Paul II just sold for nearly $700,000. Normally, such a car wouldn't bring more than a few thousand $$$ even in top condition, but it's the association that matters here.

Someone else mentioned seeing the TV Batmobile in a museum. Wonder which of the possibly as many as 6 or more "original" Batmobiles that was? The "absolute original" TV Batmobile was created by George Barris, starting from an ex-Ford show car of the 1950s called the Futura. But I believe one or more "replicas" were built for the show, and then several others have been built since.
 
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