[tempnow987]

No, it was an older car (so easy to steal). After it had been trashed (radio ripped out, trunk wouldn't close properly) it had no real value anymore.

The thieves would normally steal it and kill battery (because of damage you had to really fiddle with it to get trunk light off etc). So I'd find it in a parking spot.

They did seem to sometimes use it to hang out in, which is how I ran into them in it. I think in some cases they used these stolen cars to store stuff so I'd do a quick search before taking it back.

Only really annoying thing was that it would have been trivial for cops to a) recover these given the citation data was already in a city system and b) void out the citations given car was reported stolen.