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Is this your car, sir? Man to be reunited with Jaguar stolen 46 years ago

U.S. authorities have recovered a Jaguar XKE stolen 46 years ago outside a New York City apartment after finding it on a ship to the Netherlands and tracking down the 82-year-old original owner of the British luxury car. A man who shipped the car from the Los Angeles and Long Beach seaport complex submitted paperwork to U.S. Customs and Border Protection in June and an analyst who checked out the vehicle saw it had been reported stolen, said California Highway Patrol investigator Mike Maleta. By that time, the crate with the 1967 Jaguar was already two days away by ship en route to the Netherlands, which is a hot market for vintage cars, Maleta said.

I’ll use it as a Sunday car. They were never reliable.

Ivan Schneider looks forward to getting his stolen Jag back

The owner, Ivan Schneider, was an attorney who had bought the car as a status symbol and had it stolen from outside his New York apartment one night in 1968, Maleta said. Schneider, who now splits his time between New York state and Florida, has called it a “miracle” the car was found and said he plans to restore it, according to U.S. Customs.

After we convinced him, he was excited.

California Highway Patrol investigator Michael Maleta