<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffff00;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bdbaa284-fce3-4d7a-b21e-289014094b9e/BE5F8BD6-D62F-4B69-9FDA-C97EB2290257/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.aol.com/weird-news/article/van-stolen-35-years-ago-in-wash-state/756982?cid=46" href="http://news.aol.com/weird-news/article/van-stolen-35-years-ago-in-wash-state/756982?cid=46" style="font-size: 11px;">news.aol.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/weird-news/article/van-stolen-35-years-ago-in-wash-state/756982?cid=46">Van stolen 35 years ago in Wash. state recovered </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/weird-news/article/van-stolen-35-years-ago-in-wash-state/756982?cid=46"><DIV id="articleTxt1" class="articleTxt smallText">SPOKANE, Wash. -A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.</DIV> <DIV id="articleTxt2" class="articleTxt smallText">Customs agents found the 1965 van on Oct. 19 when they opened a shipping container bound for The Netherlands, The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported. They ran the vehicle identification number and discovered it was listed as stolen.</DIV> <DIV id="articleTxt3" class="articleTxt smallText">Law officers said the van, which is in great shape, was stolen from an upholstery shop in Spokane on July 12, 1974 — while Spokane was hosting the 1974 World's Fair.</DIV> <DIV id="articleTxt4" class="articleTxt smallText">Authorities have not been able to find the original owner, whom they would not identify.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.aol.com/weird-news/article/van-stolen-35-years-ago-in-wash-state/756982?cid=46"><DIV id="articleTxt6" class="articleTxt smallText">The van now legally belongs to Allstate Insurance Co., which paid off the original owner's theft claim back in 1974. The Highway Patrol turned over the van to Allstate this week.</DIV> <DIV id="articleTxt7" class="articleTxt smallText">Maleta said the van had been restored to pristine condition.</DIV> <DIV id="articleTxt8" class="articleTxt smallText">"Now it's probably worth 27 grand," he said. "It's a beautiful van."</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BE5F8BD6-D62F-4B69-9FDA-C97EB2290257/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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